Neither Here Nor There

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.

falls

comes

turns

happens

accomplished

quintessential

veteran

seasoned

dribbled

trickled

scattered

frittered

end

row

run

line

heave

pull

haul

hoist

deprived

robbed

relieved

bereft

comfy

consoling

comforting

comfortable

sense

mind

wit

thought

One anthropologist (0) ___ the term 'non-place' for the airports, motorway service stations and hotel chains that look much the same wherever one (1) ___ to be. Of these, the airport is perhaps the (2) ___ example. Passengers surrender their belongings to be scanned and their time to be (3) ___ away in queues, and then wait for hours on (4) ___ in a building designed for nobody to stay in for long. And yet, for some travellers, the departure lounge exerts a curious (5) ___ . Suspended between one life and another, they are temporarily (6) ___ of the obligations of both. The emails can wait; the meeting at the other end is still a (7) ___ distance away. There is nothing to be done but browse, read or simply watch the planes, and the absence of choice can feel oddly liberating. Perhaps that is why so many of us arrive at the airport far earlier than common (8) ___ would dictate.

Neither Here Nor There

cast

framed

coined

moulded

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