Memories are made of this - Module 7

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Advanced Expert Coursebook, Pearson Education

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.

We don’t normally collect souvenirs for (0) ___ great significance they might have in themselves. Nor (1) ___ we collect them for practical reasons, (2) ___ than to brighten up some empty shelf. When (3) ___ comes to it, as the word suggests, the real reason we buy souvenirs is for the memories we associate with them. Some tourists buy cheap mass-produced goods and others will only buy handmade folk art. But (4) ___ both sets of travellers have (5) ___ common is that for them the object acquires sentimental value, even on those occasions they feel they (6) ___ kick themselves for having paid too much. How often do we all wish we hadn’t parted with our precious money so easily! However, for some people collecting can become a serious passion. A few years ago, the writer Paul Theroux was in a market in Mumbai when he saw a nineteenth-century glass painting. ‘All I did was stop and admire it,’ he says. ‘I don’t know (7) ___ it should be, but when I tried to move away, I realised that I had to buy it.’ Now, wherever he travels, he goes looking for glass paintings, almost as (8) ___ he were hunting for treasure.

Memories are made of this

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