Handwriting - Test 2

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Cambridge English Advanced 1, Cambridge University Press

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.

About six months ago, I realised I had (0) ___ idea what the handwriting of a good friend of mine looked like. We had always communicated by email and text but never by a handwritten letter. And it struck me that we are at a moment (9) ___ handwriting seems to be about to vanish from our lives altogether. (10) ___ some point in recent years, it stopped (11) ___ a necessary and inevitable intermediary between people – a means by (12) ___ individuals communicate with each other, putting a little bit of their personality (13) ___ the form of the message as they press the ink-bearing point onto the paper. It has started to become just (14) ___ among many options, often considered unattractive and elaborate. For each of us, the act of putting marks on paper with ink goes back as (15) ___ as we can remember. Our handwriting, like ourselves, seems always to have been there. But now, given that most of us communicate via email and text, have we lost (16) ___ crucial to the human experience?

Handwriting

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