No place like home - Module 7

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Advanced Expert Student's Resource Book, 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.

In my first few weeks (0) ___ a university student, living alone in a strange city, I horrified one new-found friend by saying I was 'going home', referring to the student residence in (1) ___ we were living. (2) ___ common with many of my classmates, she was going through the pain of homesickness and the institutional residence bore very (3) ___ resemblance to the home she was missing. Meanwhile, on a nearby street, I spotted a sticker on the window of a VW camper van that read Home is where you park it. This minimalist slogan appealed to me, suggesting that grand mansions or chic apartments were all very well, but all you actually needed in (4) ___ to feel at home was a little van and the few possessions it (5) ___ accommodate. In some sense, home has always been somewhat portable for me. (6) ___ said that, it was only (7) ___ 20 years of adult life that I finally lived in a house that provided me (8) ___ anything like the warmth of my parental home.

No place like home

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