Nostalgia - Unit 2

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education

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.

went

got

carried

held

generation

adulthood

formation

youth

substantially

inevitably

seemingly

understandably

considered

recognised

appreciated

believed

revealed

arose

generated

acquired

distinguished

observed

encountered

perceived

dispose

distort

differ

deceive

energy

strength

power

force

Nostalgia is the feeling that things were better in the past. It’s what makes us look back (0) ___ at our childhood and teenage years as ‘the best years of our lives’, while conveniently forgetting all the bad stuff that (1) ___ on in those days. It makes us listen endlessly to the music from our (2) ___ and re-watch old movies and TV shows. Nostalgia is behind the (3) ___ irrational revival of vinyl LPs and even cassettes – technologies that really ought to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. In the 17th century, nostalgia was (4) ___ an illness, inflicting soldiers and others who spent extended periods away from home. As late as the 19th century, doctors believed nostalgia (5) ___ from a so-called ‘pathological bone’, even though they were unable to locate such a bone anywhere in the human body. Nowadays, we have a better understanding of nostalgia, which is no longer (6) ___ as an infliction to be cured. In fact, it may even be good for you, in that it can make you more optimistic, inspired and creative, and it increases the desire to try new things. As long as we don’t allow our memories of the past to (7) ___ our view of the present, a few nostalgic reminiscences from time to time can do us a (8) ___ of good.

Nostalgia

eagerly

fondly

fiercely

keenly

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