The Price of Meals - Test 7

B2 First · Word Formation · Cambridge English First 2, 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. There is an example at the beginning.

EVIDENT

TWO

SURROUND

SURPRISE

RATE

PSYCHOLOGY

SIGNIFY

COURAGE

When a meal is (0) ___ , do people say they enjoy it simply because it costs a lot of money? There is some (1) ___ from an experiment in a New York restaurant which suggests that this might be so. The restaurant served diners a meal but charged some (2) ___ as much as others, even though the meals were identical and taken in the same (3) ___ with the same level of service. After the meal everyone was asked what they thought of the meal. One might think that the people who had paid least would be the most impressed with the meal. (4) ___ , though, it was those who had paid most who gave it the highest (5) ___ . According to a well-known (6) ___ , the reason for this finding is that a high price for a meal is very (7) ___ in convincing people that a meal is good. One wonders if this might (8) ___ restaurant owners to keep their prices high.

The price of meals

EXPENSE

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