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FCE USE OF ENGLISH - The mystery of the vanishing bees For questions 1-12 read the text and decide which answer A B C or D best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning 0. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example o A normal B pure C natural D physical Most people are probably aware that honey the 0 Csweetener that man has been using for thousands of years is 1 by bees but perhaps fewer of us realise just how important these 2 creatures are to farmers. Bees pollinate fruit and vegetable crops it has been said that every third mouthful we eat depends 3 a bee having pollinated one or more of the ingredients but now farmers in the United States are 4 a major problem* American bees are dying - and nobody knows why. Making sure crops are 5 pollinated has become big 6 in the United States. Beekeepers load their hives onto huge lorries and transport them 7 the country to pollinate the fa ers crops. When the bees finish their work in one state and return to their hives they are taken on to another state. The problem became apparent when the bees 8 to return to their hives with some beekeepers losing more than 70 per cent of their insects. It soon became clear that the bees were flying off and dying in huge 9. Now the race is on to find the cause and hopefully the solution* 10 they will be 11 to whatever it is that is killing their American cousins. Only time will 12 CL GRANADA S* L* C/ Puentezuelas n 32 1 Planta - 18002 Granada E-mail info clgranada*com Web www. clgranada*com Tel f* 958 53 52 53 958 52 12 91 / Fax 958 25 15 46 Rev 06/22-07-13 Adapted from FCE Practice papers exams express publishing 1 A manufactured B created C generated D produced 2 A tiny B miniature C minute D short 3 A from B to C on D about 4 A facing B finding C solving D meeting 5 A fairly B properly C precisely D distinctly 6 A business B industry C work D production 7 A through B along C over D around 8 A stopped B missed C ignored D failed 9 A quantities B levels - C numbers D amounts 10 A Apart from this B From then on C In the meantime D Nevertheless 11 A opposed B resistant C defensive D hostile 12 A say B tell C prove D show ANSWERS 1D 2A 3C 4A 5B 6A 7D 8D 9C 10 C 11 B 12 B. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example o A normal B pure C natural D physical Most people are probably aware that honey the 0 Csweetener that man has been using for thousands of years is 1 by bees but perhaps fewer of us realise just how important these 2 creatures are to farmers. Bees pollinate fruit and vegetable crops it has been said that every third mouthful we eat depends 3 a bee having pollinated one or more of the ingredients but now farmers in the United States are 4 a major problem* American bees are dying - and nobody knows why. Bees pollinate fruit and vegetable crops it has been said that every third mouthful we eat depends 3 a bee having pollinated one or more of the ingredients but now farmers in the United States are 4 a major problem* American bees are dying - and nobody knows why. Making sure crops are 5 pollinated has become big 6 in the United States. Beekeepers load their hives onto huge lorries and transport them 7 the country to pollinate the fa ers crops.