CAE Exam Training 2025 Reading Part 7

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CAE Reading Part 7

Reading Part 7: Gapped Text

• Gapped text from which paragraphs have been removed    and  placed in jumbled order after the text​.
• Six gaps​.
• Seven paragraphs (one is not needed).Focus: understanding of the overall structure of the text and the way it develops its ideas.

Check the paragraph fits into the gap

• Cohesion: must be a grammatical match with something in the previous/next paragraph. 
• Coherence: must make sense in terms of the meaning of the previous/next paragraph.
• Text structure: must flow logically (e.g. development of an argument; a series of events).
• Global meaning: the meaning of the text as a whole.

Getting started

• Allow yourself 15 minutes to complete the exercise​.
  
• Read the instructions, title and sub-heading​.
  
• Skim the gapped text​.
  
• Read the missing paragraphs​.
  
• Go back and read the gapped text in more detail​.
  
• Look at the information before and after the gap.
  
• Fill in any easy answers you are sure of and cross them out.

Tips

• Underline any key words which refer to the previous/following paragraph.
• ​You might like to write ‘A/B/C/D/E/F/G’ in every answer slot​.
• Read the remaining paragraphs again and look for clues.
  
• Read the whole text through when you have finished to make sure it makes sense​.
  
• ONE paragraph is not needed – check it will not fit in any of the gaps​.
  
• Never leave a blank answer!
  

Check for cohesion and coherence

• Does it fit grammatically? 

       Check references to subjects and people (he, she, it, this)​               and verb forms

• Does it make sense?
  

       Check time expressions and linking words (next, finally,                   however)​

Which car is this?

Who is this man?

See handout

• Skim the text​ (3 minutes).
• Do not read the missing paragraphs yet​.
  
• What is the main idea in each paragraph? 
• Give your answers on following slides.
  

Main idea paragraph 1

1. effects of driving very fast
2. effects of driving very slowly

Main idea paragraph 2

1. aeroplanes
2. problems of driving at high speed

Main idea paragraph 3

1. comparison with a Formula One car​
2. history of Formula One

Main idea paragraph 4

1. how engineers produced enough power
2. Audi V8

Main idea paragraph 5

1. the problem of aerodynamics
2. how to use a wind tunnel

Main idea paragraph 6

1. the reason for the failures
2. the solution to the aerodynamics

Main idea paragraph 7

1. how it feels to drive the car
2. the size of France

Now read the missing paragraphs

• Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits the gap.
  
• Time: 10 minutes
  
• You can fill in your answers on the next slides

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

Question 6

Which paragraph is not needed?

What do you need to do in order to score well on Part 7?

Extra practice All parts: 

See handout