Use of English
Multiple Choice - Example 3

C1 Advanced Exam

Part 1

For questions 1–8, read the text below 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:

0 A crammed B crushed C massed D piled

Reading the slow way

It's 7 pm and I'm sitting in a café I've never been in before. It's (0) _______________ with people, but nobody's talking. Nothing (1) _______________ about this in a big city, but we're not just sitting there ignoring each other. (2) _______________ the opposite; we're all reading together, silently, in a 'Slow Reading Club', an idea from New Zealand. (3) _______________ our lives, clearing some mental (4) _______________ where our attention is not constantly divided between ten different things is the trend of the moment, but it's not easy to (5) _______________ .

The Slow Reading Club aims to meet that challenge by encouraging people to apply the same discipline to reading as to going to the gym or completing a task at work. The rules are (6) _______________ straightforward: bring a book and (7) _______________  yourself in it the way you did as a child. I've brought a thriller which has lain (8) _______________ on my bookshelves for years. At the end of our hour, we're told it's time to stop reading and it feels like emerging from a deep sleep. I'm off home to carry on reading.

1 A contrary B abnormal C variable D disperate

2 A Fully B Thoroughly C Wholly D Quite

3 A Simplifying B Relieving C Moderating D Relaxing

4 A place B span C space D area

5 A deliver B attain C perform D acquire

6 A exactly B rather C thereby D somewhat

7 A lose B place C concentrate D free

8 A negated B deserted C declined D neglected

Answers

It's 7 pm and I'm sitting in a café I've never been in before. It's (0) CRAMMED with people, but nobody's talking. Nothing (1) ABNORMAL about this in a big city, but we're not just sitting there ignoring each other. (2) QUITE the opposite; we're all reading together, silently, in a 'Slow Reading Club', an idea from New Zealand. (3) SIMPLIFYING our lives, clearing some mental (4) SPACE where our attention is not constantly divided between ten different things is the trend of the moment, but it's not easy to (5) ATTAIN.

The Slow Reading Club aims to meet that challenge by encouraging people to apply the same discipline to reading as to going to the gym or completing a task at work. The rules are (6) RATHER straightforward: bring a book and (7) LOSE yourself in it the way you did as a child. I've brought a thriller which has lain (8) NEGLECTED on my bookshelves for years. At the end of our hour, we're told it's time to stop reading and it feels like emerging from a deep sleep. I'm off home to carry on reading.

1. B  2. D  3. A  4. C  5. B  6. B  7. A  8. D