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Word Formation - (C1) Advanced Certificate of English

For Questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Modern publishing

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

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