How good is your English? Try this Cambridge Proficiency Use of English Exam (Grammar and Vocabulary) Part 3, level C2 – with answers.
In this exercise you have to change the word from (for example) noun to verb, adverb or adjective. You may have to add a suffix or prefix: ‘like’ could be ‘unlike’, ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’, for instance.
The example (0) is ‘Agreement‘.
The answers are below. Good luck!
A history of science fiction in Britain
There is little (0) …….. as to the precise nature of science fiction. Thomas More’s Utopia, published in 1516, bears some (1) …….. to modern science fiction with its depiction of a perfect society.
But the genre only really became established in the nineteenth century, when unprecedented technological change inspired literature exploring the impact it had on society. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was highly (2) …….., with the image it portrayed of a mad scientist conducting strange experiments becoming a popular and (3) …….. theme in science fiction.
The twentieth century saw the (4) …….. of what came to be another (5) …….. of the genre – its use by writers to criticise contemporary society. Many of them struggled with the (6) …….. tension between the desire to be a (7) …….. social and political (8) …….. and the wish simply to tell an exciting story.
0. AGREE
AGREEMENT
1. RESEMBLE
2. INFLUENCE
3. ENDURE
4. EMERGE
5. CHARACTER
6. LIE
7. CONTROVERSY
8. COMMENT
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RESEMBLANCE
INFLUENTIAL
ENDURING
EMERGENCE
CHARACTERISTIC
UNDERLYING
CONTROVERSIAL
COMMENTARY
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