What We Bring Home

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.

gathering

harvesting

reaping

garnering

prod

poke

jab

nudge

heavily

densely

deeply

thickly

touchable

tactile

sensory

tangible

behalf

sake

purpose

cause

casts

charms

conjures

spells

none

little

naught

nothing

part

split

divide

sever

Few travellers return home (0) ___ -handed. The fridge magnet, the snow globe (1) ___ dust on a shelf, the T-shirt that shrinks after its first wash: such objects are easy to (2) ___ fun at, and the trade in them is often dismissed as little more than a way of parting tourists from their money. Yet the impulse behind it is (3) ___ rooted and as old as travel itself. Medieval pilgrims came home with small badges pinned to their hats, (4) ___ evidence that they had made the journey. A souvenir, after all, is seldom valued for its own (5) ___ . Its worth lies in what it (6) ___ up: the smell of a market, the heat of an afternoon, the person we briefly became while we were away. That is why a trinket bought for next to (7) ___ can come to mean more than any costly purchase, and why, years later, we cannot quite bring ourselves to (8) ___ with it.

What We Bring Home

bare

empty

idle

clean

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