Meeting Marvin Gaye - Test 1

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Proficiency Testbuilder, 4th Edition, Mark Harrison, Macmillan

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

distant

prompt

abrupt

quick

prompt

impulsive

abrupt

quick

type

self

like

own

set against

weighed up

made up for

settled up with

advantageous

privileged

indulgent

gainful

inundated

filled

plentiful

dense

appreciably

fully

utterly

sorely

while

phase

length

course

When I first met Marvin Gaye in his Sunset Strip studio, I had just (0) ___ a two-year project co-writing the autobiography of Ray Charles, an inspiring collaborator, but an authoritative and often (1) ___ figure. Marvin came on like a brother. He was warm, witty and (2) ___ to laugh. He spoke like he sang, in whisper-quiet melodies and soft falsettos. His conversation had a lyricism all of its (3) ___ . His affectations – a slight British accent when he was feeling aristocratic, for example – were more than (4) ___ by his disarming sincerity. We became friends. I felt (5) ___ to watch him work and play up-close. It soon became clear that, like his music, his personal life was (6) ___ with dramatic contradictions, a combination of charm and chaos. Because he was a hero of mine, and because his art was so dazzlingly beautiful – so self-contained, so accomplished, so (7) ___ slick – it took me a (8) ___ to realise my hero was drowning.

Meeting Marvin Gaye

accomplished

completed

ended

achieved

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