Living Boundaries

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.

teeming

crowding

flooding

packing

revealing

displaying

uncovering

exposing

hook

bait

magnet

charm

give

make

clear

open

retain

maintain

remain

sustain

occasion

opening

moment

chance

let

leave

keep

stay

allows

admits

grants

enables

To the casual observer, a hedgerow is (0) ___ more than a line of shrubs separating one field from another. Look more closely, however, and it turns out to be (1) ___ with life. Birds nest deep among its branches, while hedgehogs and other small mammals use it to travel between patches of woodland without (2) ___ themselves to predators in open ground. In spring and summer its flowers are a (3) ___ for bees and butterflies, and in autumn its berries feed migrating birds. Over the last century, though, vast lengths of hedgerow were removed to (4) ___ way for bigger fields and larger machinery. Those that (5) ___ are often cut back so hard every year that they rarely get the (6) ___ to flower or produce fruit. Conservationists now urge landowners to (7) ___ hedges alone for longer between cuttings, and to plant new ones wherever space (8) ___ . The rewards, they argue, are considerable: a well-managed hedge also shelters livestock from the wind and helps to stop soil being washed away.

Living Boundaries

little

few

less

fewer

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