Pages for the Road

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge Ready original exercise

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.

tell

say

give

speak

set

put

laid

stood

adherent

inherent

persistent

coherent

off

out

over

away

rare

scarce

few

hard

goes

comes

makes

runs

most

top

best

finest

recur

replicate

revive

retrieve

With endless travel advice available online, it might seem that the printed guidebook has had its (0) ___ . Yet sales have held up better than many predicted, and loyal readers (1) ___ several reasons for sticking with paper. A good guidebook is written by people who have actually (2) ___ foot in the places they describe, and it offers a (3) ___ overview that a scattered collection of web pages rarely matches. It never runs (4) ___ of battery, and it works perfectly well in remote valleys where a phone signal is (5) ___ to come by. Critics counter that printed information quickly (6) ___ out of date: opening hours change, restaurants close and prices rise. Many travellers therefore try to get the (7) ___ of both worlds, using the book to plan their route and their phone to check details on the day. For some, the battered copy itself matters too. With its folded corners and pencilled notes, it becomes a record of past journeys that no app can quite (8) ___ .

Pages for the Road

hour

season

era

day

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