Hairstyles - Module 7

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · First Expert Coursebook, 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.

thought

meaning

design

impression

proposal

hope

wish

suggestion

required

expected

supposed

assumed

explain

create

perform

show

allowed

admitted

claimed

said

in

with

at

by

showed

had

made

put

for

about

on

of

Hairstyles tend to (0) ___ statements about what people are like. They are sometimes used to give the (1) ___ that we are different from others. Alternatively, we can choose a particular hairstyle in the (2) ___ that people will think we are fashionable. In the UK in the early 1960s, the Beatles' hairstyle was copied by boys who, on the whole, wanted and (3) ___ to shock their parents. Later, middle-class 'hippies' let their hair grow long to (4) ___ their commitment to an alternative lifestyle. In the 1970s, 'skinheads' shaved their heads and (5) ___ to represent the working class; for those who felt themselves part of a multicultural society, dreadlocks were (6) ___ fashion. Recently, fashion icons such as the footballer David Beckham have (7) ___ a huge influence on men's hairstyles. In fact, one consequence of the Beckham phenomenon is that young men now spend as much time and money (8) ___ their appearance as young women do.

Hairstyles

do

cause

make

give

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