Free of my chains - Unit 18

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Objective Proficiency 2nd Edition Workbook, 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. There is an example at the beginning.

'Good luck, Frenchman! (0) ___ this moment you're free. Adios!' The officer of the El Dorado penal settlement waved and turned his back. And it was (1) ___ harder than that for me to free (2) ___ from the chains I had been dragging behind me these thirteen years. I held Picolino (3) ___ the arm and we took a few steps up the steep path to the village of El Dorado. Freedom? Yes, but where? At the far end of the world, as (4) ___ turned out, way back in the plateaux of Venezuelan Guiana, in a little village deep in the (5) ___ luxuriant virgin forest you can imagine. This was the south-east tip of Venezuela, close to the Brazilian frontier: an enormous sea of green, broken only here (6) ___ there by the waterfalls of the rivers that ran through it. When we had climbed to the edge of the plateau, I breathed in deeply, drawing the air right down into the bottom of my lungs and letting it out gently, (7) ___ though I were afraid of living these wonderful minutes (8) ___ fast – these first minutes of freedom.

Free of my chains

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