England's breakfast revolution - Test 1

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English Proficiency 2, Cambridge University Press

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

displaying

manifesting

disclosing

featuring

Deservedly

Admittedly

Conceivably

Assuredly

engaging

launching

embarking

committing

norm

prototype

standard

trait

attributed

assigned

accounted

accorded

figures

shapes

lines

patterns

linked

fixed

attached

secured

embedded

rooted

entrenched

founded

The importance of a good breakfast is beyond (0) ___ according to health experts, but in historical terms breakfast is a relatively new arrival in England, with descriptions of breakfast seldom (1) ___ in medieval literature. (2) ___ , there are scattered references to travellers having a meal at dawn before (3) ___ on arduous journeys, and to the sick sitting down to breakfast for medicinal reasons, but most people went without unless they were monarchs or nobles. However, in the sixteenth century it gradually became the (4) ___ , not the exception. Some writers have (5) ___ this to the greater availability of food. Proponents of this view have not always considered other profound social changes. For example, new (6) ___ of employment may well offer a plausible explanation for the greater importance now (7) ___ to breakfast, as individuals were increasingly employed for a prescribed number of hours. Often this involved starting work extremely early. Thus, having a meal first thing in the morning was (8) ___ in necessity, and was no longer associated with social status alone.

England's breakfast revolution

disagreement

dissent

dispute

discord

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