Me and My Doppelganger - Page 8

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Ready for C2 Proficiency Workbook, Macmillan

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

sheepish

stealthy

furtive

covert

clutching

fumbling

snatching

grappling

albeit

notwithstanding

nevertheless

hitherto

give myself up

set myself apart

put myself down

let myself go

eerily

inscrutably

cryptically

notoriously

harbingers

portents

precursors

heralds

hinting

spotting

passing

bearing

twist

spin

curl

roll

As I took my seat on the plane, I was struck by a rather (0) ___ feeling about the stranger next to me. Hoping not to draw attention to my curiosity, I sneaked a (1) ___ glance at his face while (2) ___ in my bag for my phone. Immediately, I realised what was so unsettling about him: he had my nose, my eyes, even my bone structure. To all intents and purposes, he was me, (3) ___ a slightly scruffier version, like a vision of what I might become should I (4) ___ to a greater extent than I already do. Doppelgangers – people who look (5) ___ similar to others – have long been a source of fascination and terror, as if representing a peek into parallel universes, the big 'What if …?' Historically, they were seen as (6) ___ of doom, as if meeting yourself might bring about a terrible catastrophe. Of course, cold logic tells us that there are finite variations of a human face, so occasionally we're bound to stumble across others with more than a (7) ___ resemblance to ourselves. But try as we might to put a rational (8) ___ on things, coming face to face with your own doppelganger can still challenge your sense of self-identity to the very core.

Me and My Doppelganger

mundane

compelling

uncanny

quirky

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