Loved to Death

C2 Proficiency · 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.

untold

unspoilt

unbridled

unwitting

makes

takes

sets

puts

features

displays

exhibits

portrays

path

way

road

passage

borrowed

loaned

endowed

lent

title

name

label

word

rumple

crumple

ruffle

crease

so

like

thus

as

There is a cruel irony at the (0) ___ of modern tourism. The very qualities that draw visitors to a place, its tranquillity, its (1) ___ charm, its sense of being a world apart, are precisely the ones that mass tourism (2) ___ paid to. Once a village (3) ___ in enough glossy brochures, its narrow lanes fill with coaches, its bakeries give (4) ___ to souvenir shops, and the families who (5) ___ it its character are gradually priced out. What remains is a theme park in all but (6) ___ : picturesque, immaculately maintained and curiously empty of life. Some destinations have begun to fight back, capping visitor numbers or levying charges on day-trippers. Such measures are bound to (7) ___ a few feathers, not least among businesses that depend on the crowds for their livelihood. Yet the alternative is to stand by and watch the places we claim to cherish being loved to death, (8) ___ it were, by the very people who admire them most.

Loved to Death

hub

heart

kernel

pivot

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