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Part 1 For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. European boycott of death penalty drugs lowers rate of US executions The European-led boycott of medical drugs used by US corrections departments to execute prisoners is having such an impact that it has (1) ………. the number of executions to an almost all-time low, a report has concluded. There were 39 executions this year – only the second time since 1994 that the number has fallen below 40. The report says a major factor behind the (2) ………. in judicial killings has been the difficulty states that still (3) ………. the death penalty are encountering in finding a (4) ………. means of ending life. California, Arkansas and North Carolina have all had effective moratoriums for the past seven years because they have failed to (5) ………. on a workable lethal injection protocol. Several other states are turning to untested drugs or to lethal medicines improvised in single (6) ………. by so-called “compounding pharmacies” that are not subject to federal regulations. “The goal-posts keep (7) ………. under the death penalty states,” said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “As soon as they move to a new protocol, the boycott (8) ………..” The European Commission imposed (9) ………. restrictions on the export of anaesthetics to US corrections departments in 2011, and some states have been (10) ………. out of their primary lethal drugs supplies. Florida has turned to midazolam hydrochloride, a drug never before used in executions, provoking an (11) ………. that it might be (12) ………. cruel and unusual punishment on condemned prisoners. Adapted from: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/death-penalty-boycott-drugs-execution-new-low |
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| 1 | A) | directed | B) | caused | C) | inspired | D) | driven |
| 2 | A) | slide | B) | slump | C) | sway | D) | swing |
| 3 | A) | do | B) | practise | C) | make | D) | introduce |
| 4 | A) | consistent | B) | proportionate | C) | reconcilable | D) | regular |
| 5 | A) | achieve | B) | conclude | C) | establish | D) | settle |
| 6 | A) | batches | B) | bunches | C) | parcels | D) | clusters |
| 7 | A) | slipping | B) | shifting | C) | staying | D) | wandering |
| 8 | A) | transmits | B) | sweeps | C) | spreads | D) | reaches |
| 9 | A) | intense | B) | hard | C) | resistant | D) | tough |
| 10 | A) | dropping | B) | getting | C) | running | D) | ending |
| 11 | A) | outcry | B) | outburst | C) | outbreak | D) | outcast |
| 12 | A) | doing | B) | inflicting | C) | making | D) | applying |
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CAE Use of English exercises and notes on writing (Advanced English C1 level)
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