Eating by the Calendar

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.

along

across

round

past

making

doing

giving

holding

on

in

by

at

bulky

bumper

bulging

booming

time

date

season

period

wear

fade

melt

dry

ahead

onward

upward

forward

bar

rule

set

put

Thanks to global supply chains, supermarket shelves look much the (0) ___ in January as they do in July. Strawberries and asparagus can be bought all year (1) ___ , flown in from the other side of the world. A growing number of cooks, however, are (2) ___ the case for eating seasonally. Produce eaten (3) ___ its peak, they argue, tastes far better than fruit picked early and shipped thousands of miles, and it is often cheaper too, since a (4) ___ harvest tends to drive prices down. Eating this way also encourages cooks to be inventive with whatever happens to be in (5) ___ . Admittedly, the appeal of cabbage and root vegetables can (6) ___ thin by the end of winter, but this makes the first tender greens of spring something to look (7) ___ to. Critics point out that a strictly seasonal diet would (8) ___ out many foods that cannot be grown locally, such as coffee, rice and citrus fruit. Most advocates, though, are not so strict: they simply suggest buying local produce when it is at its best.

Eating by the Calendar

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