Waiting Your Turn

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).

HABIT

OFFEND

ORDER

SPEAK

JUST

STRICT

ANTICIPATE

REASSURE

Few social rituals are observed as (0) ___ as the queue. In some countries, joining the back of a line is so (1) ___ that pushing in is regarded as a serious (2) ___ , likely to provoke tutting, glaring and, very occasionally, open confrontation. Elsewhere, a crowd around a counter may look to an outsider like complete (3) ___ , yet it usually follows its own (4) ___ rules about who goes next. Those who study queues argue that what frustrates people is not so much the length of a wait as the (5) ___ of watching someone jump ahead. This is why many post offices now use a single line feeding several counters, so that customers are served (6) ___ in the order in which they arrived. Even online, the queue survives. Tickets for eagerly (7) ___ concerts often place buyers in a virtual waiting room, where a slowly moving progress bar provides a (8) ___ sense that something is happening.

Waiting Your Turn

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