The following quizzes and exercises are to help you prepare for the Cambridge C2 Proficiency examination.
The first part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency Examination is multiple choice cloze where you have to choose the correct word from four similar given words. This is a test of your vocabulary knowledge primarily, your ability to use the correct word (noun, verb, adjective) depending on context.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Multiple Choice Cloze section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Multiple Choice Cloze exercises: Page One | Page Two
The second part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency Examination is open cloze, in which you use one word to fill each space in a short text. The required words are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Open Cloze section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Open Cloze exercises: Page One | Page Two
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The third part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency Examination is word formation where you have to use a root such as 'able' and create an appropriate word (disable, unable, ability) to fill the gap in a text.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Word Formation section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Word Formation exercises: Page One | Page Two
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The final part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency Examination is Key Word Transformations. A sentence followed by a key word and a second sentence which has a gap in it. You have to use the key word to complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Key Word Transformations section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Key Word Transformations exercises: Page One | Page Two
The first of the reading parts in the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency exam is the multiple choice reading comprehension section where you must choose the correct answer out of four possible answers.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Reading Multiple Choice exercises.
In this part of the Reading and Use of English paper, known as 'Gapped Text', you need to put back paragraphs that have been removed from a text. This section of the C2 Proficiency exam will test your understanding of coherence, cohesion, text structure and global meaning.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Reading Gapped Text section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Reading Gapped Text exercises.
The final part of the C2 Proficiency Reading and Use of English paper is Multiple Matching. In this section, you must match questions or prompts to parts of a single text or individual smaller texts that follow. This tests your ability to understand specific detail and author attitude and opinion.
🔍 Guide to this part of the exam:
See our guide to the Reading Multiple Matching section.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Reading Multiple Matching exercises.
There are three parts to the speaking paper, which takes about 16 minutes to complete. Here, you will find eight complete speaking papers with all parts included.
✎ Practice Exercises
Go to Speaking exercises.