The way we see the things around us - Test 2

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.

correspondingly

similarly

accordingly

appropriately

respond

reply

adapt

answer

reacting

dealing

handling

bargaining

ease

calm

quieten

cool

perfectly

completely

reasonably

competently

Associating

Attributing

Accrediting

Admitting

support

decide

confirm

maintain

desirable

preferable

advisable

suitable

'Pastry,' once wrote a cookery expert, 'like horses and children, seems to (0) ___ if you are afraid of it and plays up (1) ___ .' Had she been writing today, she might well have mentioned that computers are just the same. Like small children, they do not (2) ___ well to force, and just as one way of (3) ___ with a fractious child is to send it to its room to (4) ___ off, so quite often, if the machine is giving trouble, the first thing to try is simply switching it off and doing something else; quite why the machine works (5) ___ when you boot it up again I have no idea. (6) ___ human emotions and feelings to inanimate objects is, of course, extremely unscientific; it's only those who don't understand machines who believe that they behave like people. But I would (7) ___ that, although treating machines like people may be misguided, it is (8) ___ , in general, to treating people like machines.

The way we see the things around us

distinguish

sense

feel

identify

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