Use of English Part 2 (Sample FCE 2014)

For questions 1 - 12 read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. Use the Google form below the text to input your answer

The Birth of YouTube

In 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,  two software designers from Silicon valley in California, were invited to a dinner party. Several people had brought their camcorders to the party and these people were complaining about (1) _____ difficult it was to share home videos online. That was when Chad and Steve came up (2) _____ the idea for YouTube, the site which makes (3) _____ easy to upload home videos onto the Internet. They formed a company, borrowed some money and (4) _____ themselves up in business.

It turned (5) _____ that millions of people already had short home video clips that they thought it (6) _____  be fun to share with other enthusiasts around the world. Launched in December 2005, YouTube soon contained more (7) _____ a million short video clips. People were uploading 8000 clips a day, and watching three million a day. They had mostly heard about the site through word (8) _____ mouth, email and hyperlink, and eighty percent of the clips had (9) _____  made by amateurs.

So why was YouTube such an immediate success? Researchers found that (10) _____  average, people were spending fifteen minutes on the site during each visit, (11) _____  was enough time to view several short funny clips. In (12) _____ words, they were using YouTube to give them a little break from their work or study.