Modern Culture? - Unit 10

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Objective Proficiency 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

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When people talk about contemporary culture they are just as (0) ___ to be talking about fast cars, trainers or high heels as they are to be talking about Shostakovich or Shakespeare. Goods have become as (1) ___ a measure and marker of culture as the Great and the Good. The word 'culture' can now cover just about anything. Culture is no longer merely the beautiful and singular. It wasn't until the late twentieth century that a (2) ___ interest in objects began to replace the traditional interest in -isms, with historians, (3) ___ critics and philosophers all suddenly becoming fascinated by the meaning of objects, large and small. Is this a sign, perhaps, of a society cracking under the strain of too many things? Our current (4) ___ with material culture, one might argue, is simply a (5) ___ to the Western crisis of abundance. There are obvious problems with this materialist (6) ___ of culture. If our experience of everyday life is so (7) ___ , then how much more so is the (8) ___ of our everyday things under scrutiny?

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