Living Food

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.

out

off

away

down

come

set

put

bring

gulf

cove

harbour

bay

potency

poignancy

pungency

pomposity

enjoying

relishing

savouring

tasting

question

matter

issue

point

exhort

exert

extol

exude

outlive

outnumber

outwit

outstrip

Fermentation is, in (0) ___ , a carefully managed form of decay. Long before refrigeration, it was one of the few reliable ways of keeping food from going (1) ___ . Given the right conditions, microbes (2) ___ about converting the sugars in cabbage, milk or grapes into acids or alcohol, which keep harmful organisms at (3) ___ . In the process, the food acquires something it lacked before: the sourness of a good pickle, the (4) ___ of a mature cheese, the subtle fizz of a home-made brew. After decades in which such foods were largely left to specialists, fermentation is now (5) ___ a revival, as home cooks rediscover what their great-grandparents did as a (6) ___ of course. Enthusiasts (7) ___ its benefits for digestion and general health, and it must be said that some of their more ambitious claims (8) ___ the evidence. Even so, few would dispute the flavours, or the quiet satisfaction of watching a jar of vegetables slowly transform itself on the kitchen shelf.

Living Food

extract

essence

spirit

gist

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