Bird Brains - Ready for Use of English

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition, Macmillan Education Limited

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

assures

proves

concludes

results

strongly

hugely

deeply

widely

until

yet

even

still

understanding

learning

knowing

informing

up

towards

on

out

expand

grow

raise

enlarge

drown

sink

plunge

dive

favour

advantage

request

wish

The word ‘bird-brain’ is sometimes used to (0) ___ to someone who is considered stupid. But the behaviour of New Caledonian crows (1) ___ that birds can be extremely intelligent creatures. It is (2) ___ known that they use sticks to extract food from holes in trees, (3) ___ creating hooks at one end to make the task easier. Experiments conducted at the University of Auckland and recorded on film also show that they have a good (4) ___ of the principles of water displacement. The crows work (5) ___ that the best way to reach a piece of food floating in a half-filled tube of water is to drop objects into the tube to (6) ___ the water level. What’s more, they are capable of distinguishing between objects that will (7) ___ and those that will float; faced with a choice, the birds select the heavier ones, ignoring those that will be too light, and they reject hollow objects in (8) ___ of solid ones.

Bird Brains

describe

refer

apply

signify

Available as a free printable PDF worksheet with an optional answer key.

More B2 First Multiple Choice Cloze practice · All B2 First practice