The demise of the bookstore - Module 8

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Advanced Expert Student's Resource Book, Pearson 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.

seeking

glancing

leafing

browsing

move

change

swap

join

skimmed

glimpsed

scrolled

gazed

surreptitious

disguised

hidden

secluded

ceasing

closing

dying

expiring

What's more

Indeed

There again

Consequently

loyal

virtuous

sincere

viable

appeared

came

released

brought

As I was leaving the vast New York bookstore, feelings of guilt (0) ___ in. I'd spent 45 minutes inside, treading the thick green carpets, (1) ___ the wooden shelves but, as usual, I'd left empty-handed. The only money to (2) ___ hands was in the store's coffee shop, where I'd (3) ___ through a biography which I'd be downloading later. I'd even taken a (4) ___ photo of the cover with my smartphone, to ensure I located the correct edition online. For me, a visit to a good bookstore has long been one of life's great pleasures and I'm desolate at the thought that they might be (5) ___ out. Should more be done to save them? (6) ___ , did I want the inconvenience of lugging the heavy tome around with me all day? The sad fact is that in the age of the digital download, the bookstore is no longer a (7) ___ business model – its fate sealed long ago, when the first Kindle (8) ___ on to the market and consigned it to history.

The demise of the bookstore

kicked

jumped

popped

slipped

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