Reading the slow way - Test 2

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English Advanced 3, Cambridge University Press

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

contrary

abnormal

variable

disparate

Fully

Thoroughly

Wholly

Quite

Simplifying

Relieving

Moderating

Relaxing

place

span

space

area

deliver

attain

perform

acquire

exactly

rather

thereby

somewhat

lose

place

concentrate

free

negated

deserted

declined

neglected

It's 7 pm and I'm sitting in a café I've never been in before. It's (0) ___ with people, but nobody's talking. Nothing (1) ___ about this in a big city, but we're not just sitting there ignoring each other. (2) ___ the opposite; we're all reading together, silently, in a 'Slow Reading Club', an idea from New Zealand. (3) ___ our lives, clearing some mental (4) ___ where our attention is not constantly divided between ten different things is the trend of the moment, but it's not easy to (5) ___ . The Slow Reading Club aims to meet that challenge by encouraging people to apply the same discipline to reading as to going to the gym or completing a task at work. The rules are (6) ___ straightforward: bring a book and (7) ___ yourself in it the way you did as a child. I've brought a thriller which has lain (8) ___ on my bookshelves for years. At the end of our hour, we're told it's time to stop reading and it feels like emerging from a deep sleep. I'm off home to carry on reading.

Reading the slow way

crammed

crushed

massed

piled

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