Working from home - Practice Exam

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Advanced Expert Student's Resource Book, Pearson Education

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.

lift

fetch

pick

collect

greater

higher

larger

better

outcomes

downfalls

upshots

drawbacks

What's more

Instead

On the contrary

Otherwise

deal

sort

cope

work

given

read

normal

granted

whole

entire

utter

complete

despite

nonetheless

although

however

According to a survey of over 2,000 parents that was (0) ___ out recently, homeworking was the most attractive type of flexible working that could be offered to employees – with the main reason being that it allowed parents to take their children to school in the morning and (1) ___ them up at the end of the day. This rated (2) ___ as an incentive than other factors, such as saving time and money on commuting. Clearly, however, there are certain (3) ___ to homeworking. The survey showed, for example, that most homeworkers use their own equipment, with only seven percent having use of smartphones supplied by their employers. (4) ___ , the majority of homeworkers have to (5) ___ out any technical problems themselves, with only 36 percent being able to call on technical support from their employers if they get into trouble – something very much taken for (6) ___ in an office environment. Many employees still lack (7) ___ confidence in remote communications tools, (8) ___ their desire to work from home.

Working from home

carried

filled

taken

brought

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