Agatha Christie - Unit 10 - Nothing But the Truth
B2 First · Open Cloze · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education Limited
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 (0).
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, a seaside town in the south-west of England, in 1890. She was a successful British novelist and (0) ___ of her most famous characters was Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective. In (1) ___ of his popularity with readers, (2) ___ seems the character was far less popular with the author. According (3) ___ Christie's grandson, Matthew Prichard, she grew tired of him and couldn't wait to kill him off. Due to (4) ___ fact that the character was so commercially popular, her publishers were keen to keep him. Part of the reason (5) ___ her dislike of him was that the Belgian detective restricted her style. She had so (6) ___ ideas, but Poirot wasn't appropriate for them. If it had been up to her, she (7) ___ have focused more on her other novels. So it appears that, even with the most talented writers, there is always (8) ___ element of compromise.
Agatha Christie
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