Menu psychology - Test 4

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English Advanced 4, Cambridge University Press

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

utterly

absolutely

unbelievably

unreservedly

dart

rush

tear

race

trick

tactic

slant

style

brings up

shows up

comes out

turns out

pile

squeeze

crowd

press

set

class

kind

category

chore

duty

task

trouble

Cheerfully

Gladly

Happily

Optimistically

Have you ever struggled to make (0) ___ of a vast restaurant menu? You're (1) ___ hungry, trying to exchange pleasantries with friends and sipping a drink while your eyes (2) ___ about between the menu options. Will your (3) ___ be to go for something familiar or something different? Will you end up staring jealously at everyone else's meals while forcing yourself to eat your own misguided selection, as so often (4) ___ to be the case? Why is it so hard to decide? We want choice, but menus (5) ___ in far more dishes than most people want to have to choose from. A study suggests the optimum number of menu items is between six and ten per (6) ___ (starters, main courses and desserts) depending on the restaurant. Below this number, diners feel there's too little choice and above it, deciding becomes too much of a (7) ___ . So next time you eat out, choose the restaurant according to the number of items on the menu and the dilemma of choice will be solved. (8) ___ , there's always the option of set menus or tapas-style sharing plates; their popularity is on the increase, probably for the reasons above.

Menu psychology

substance

sense

meaning

logic

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