Written in the Margins

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.

blurred

vague

faint

dim

assure

ensure

insure

assume

price

cost

value

charge

about

off

out

up

leave

let

keep

put

aside

across

alongside

along

giving

taking

holding

setting

alive

lively

live

living

In many households, the most treasured cookbook is not a glossy bestseller but a battered notebook, its pages (0) ___ with grease and splashes of sauce. The recipes inside are rarely precise. Measurements are (1) ___ , to say the least, and instructions such as 'cook until it looks right' (2) ___ a great deal of experience on the part of the reader. Many people only appreciate the (3) ___ of these notebooks when the relative who wrote them is no longer around to ask. They then set (4) ___ recreating a dish they remember from childhood, working from notes that (5) ___ out crucial details the cook simply carried in their head. The results are often disappointing at first. To avoid this, some families now make a point of cooking (6) ___ older relatives, watching closely and (7) ___ notes as they go. Food, after all, is about more than nourishment. A well-loved family recipe is a (8) ___ link with the past, and each new cook who adapts it adds a little of their own history to the page.

Written in the Margins

stained

dyed

tinted

painted

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