Open cloze del C1 Advanced: ejercicio con corrección al momento
Una palabra por hueco. Pulsa "Corregir" cuando acabes; si hay dos respuestas válidas, las dos cuentan.
For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap.
When coffee first reached the cities of seventeenth-century Europe, it provoked a reaction 1 short of revolutionary. The coffeehouses that sprang up in London, Paris and Vienna were unlike 2 that had come before them: sober, talkative and open, 3 least in principle, to men of every rank. For the price of a single cup, a customer could read the latest pamphlets, argue about the news and strike a bargain, which is 4 these establishments came to be nicknamed 'penny universities'.
Not everyone welcomed the trend. Rulers who suspected that 5 free an exchange of ideas might breed sedition periodically tried to shut the coffeehouses down, only 6 discover that the bans were impossible to enforce. Barely had the doors been bolted 7 patrons simply reassembled elsewhere.
The influence of these spaces on public life can 8 be overstated. Newspapers, insurance markets and learned societies alike trace their origins, in part, to conversations begun over a cup of coffee. In an age long before mass media, the coffeehouse was where a scattered and often illiterate public first learned to reason, and to disagree, as something approaching a single body.
Qué es el Open cloze del C1 Advanced y cómo se puntúa
Un texto de unas 160 palabras con 8 huecos y sin opciones. En el C1 la palabra que falta suele formar parte de una estructura: "nothing short of", "only to discover", "Barely had… before", "so free an exchange". Si no conoces la estructura, no la sacas por lógica.
Cada hueco vale 1 punto y la ortografía cuenta. Una sola palabra: las contracciones son dos.
Los 3 errores que más puntos cuestan
- 1.No reconocer una inversión. "Barely had the doors been bolted ___" pide "before" o "when", no "and".
- 2.Rellenar con una palabra que tiene sentido pero rompe la estructura: "which is ___ they were nicknamed" es "why", no "how".
- 3.Olvidar las frases hechas de "matiz": "at least", "all but", "can hardly be overstated".
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Qué estructuras salen más en el C1?
Inversiones (no sooner, hardly, barely), relativos con preposición, "so/such" enfático, "only to" de resultado, y frases fijas como "nothing short of" o "by no means".
¿Qué pasa si mi respuesta también vale?
Cambridge da el punto a toda respuesta correcta. Aquí se aceptan las variantes previstas: en el hueco 8, "hardly", "scarcely" y "never".
¿Es más difícil que el del B2?
Sí, y no por el vocabulario: por la gramática. Los huecos del B2 se sacan con lógica; muchos del C1 solo si ya conoces la estructura.