The Vanishing Coin

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

NECESSARY

RARE

CONVENIENCE

PROPORTION

PRIVATE

RESPOND

PAIN

RECOGNISE

In many countries, paying with cash is becoming (0) ___ rare. Card payments and phone apps have made notes and coins seem almost (1) ___ , and many younger shoppers (2) ___ carry a wallet at all. For businesses, digital payments are faster, safer and more (3) ___ than handling cash, which has to be counted and taken to the bank. Yet the decline of cash worries consumer groups. They point out that older people and those on low incomes are (4) ___ likely to depend on it, and risk being shut out of shops that no longer accept it. Cash also offers a degree of (5) ___ that electronic payments cannot match, since every card transaction leaves a record. Some people even find that handling physical money encourages more (6) ___ spending, because watching notes leave your hand makes the cost feel real, whereas tapping a card is almost (7) ___ . A number of governments have now passed laws requiring shops to keep accepting cash, in (8) ___ of the fact that not everyone is ready to give it up.

The Vanishing Coin

INCREASE

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