Friendship Apps - Unit 6

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition, Macmillan Education Limited

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

disposable

available

enjoyable

suitable

absolutely

completely

perfectly

entirely

prefer

better

rather

happen

widen

rise

grow

spread

despite

instead

unless

although

catch

stand

take

meet

greater

further

longer

higher

waiting

delaying

pausing

holding

There are (0) ___ of reasons why you might want to use one of the many friendship apps currently (1) ___ . You may, for example, have moved to a new city, where there is (2) ___ nobody you know. Perhaps you're the only single person in your group and you'd (3) ___ go to a concert with someone than spend the evening at a dinner party with cosy couples. Or maybe you just want to (4) ___ your circle of friends – friends you actually meet up with, as opposed to those you know online. For (5) ___ we may have hundreds of virtual friends, many of us have just a handful of real-life ones. Whilst social media should arguably (6) ___ some of the blame for this, supposedly causing us to lose our ability to communicate face to face, there are other factors. We're working (7) ___ hours than ever before, with little time left over for socialising, and we're also spending more time living alone, (8) ___ marriage in favour of the single life. No wonder friendship apps are increasingly in demand.

Friendship Apps

various

several

plenty

number

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