Stories for the Ear

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

(0) ___ television arrived in most homes, many people assumed that radio drama would soon disappear. For decades it survived on (1) ___ handful of stations, kept alive by a small but loyal audience. Now, with the rise of podcasts, audio drama is enjoying a remarkable revival. Part of its appeal lies (2) ___ the fact that it can be enjoyed while doing something (3) ___ , such as cooking, driving or walking the dog. Producers like it too: a storm at sea or a battle (4) ___ two armies can be created with a few sound effects, at a fraction of (5) ___ cost of filming it. Listeners, meanwhile, say that hearing a story (6) ___ than watching it forces them to use their imagination, and that the characters often seem more real to them (7) ___ a result. Each listener pictures the hero's face or the haunted house in a slightly different way. Old-fashioned (8) ___ it may seem, the art of telling stories purely through sound looks set to stay.

Stories for the Ear

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