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Open Cloze - (C1) Advanced Certificate of English

For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

The desktop publishing revolution

The desktop publishing revolution (0) OF the 1980s continues to power and inspire (1) ............ publishing industry: what began as desktop publishing in 1984 has evolved into what is now commonly referred (2) ............, across all forms of modern publishing, as the Digital Revolution. This revolution brought improvements to the time and cost with (3) ............ books were produced and in just five years the industry had irreversibly changed, and with it the way books were produced. (4) ............, it can be said that this great innovation came (5) ............ a price: the general quality standard of printed output was changed accordingly. Book production at Cambridge University Press, the world's oldest publisher, (6) ............ evolved with the industry, adapting at its forefront to successive technological shifts throughout a four-hundred-year manufacturing legacy. From Johannes Gutenburg's printing press of 1450 to the introduction of phototypesetting in (7) ............ 1970s, Cambridge University Press strives to remain the vanguard of innovation and content production, anticipating as best (8) ............ can the near and distant futures of print and electronic publication.

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