Food from a Stall

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.

look

view

scene

vista

sharpening

whetting

grinding

honing

order

rule

law

norm

allow

afford

permit

spare

edges

angles

corners

sides

side

row

line

rank

clip

grip

clasp

clamp

welcomed

hailed

greeted

cheered

In many of the world's great cities, the most memorable meals are not (0) ___ in restaurants at all but cooked at stalls in full (1) ___ of the customer, by vendors who may have spent decades (2) ___ a single dish. Specialisation is the (3) ___ of the day. A stall that sells nothing but noodles, or one particular kind of dumpling, cannot (4) ___ to cut (5) ___ , since its regulars would desert it overnight for the stall next door. Street food is also strikingly democratic. Office workers, labourers and tourists queue side by (6) ___ , and a plate costs a fraction of a restaurant meal. Some city authorities, worried about hygiene and congestion, have tried to (7) ___ down on vendors or move them into tidy, purpose-built food halls. Such schemes are often (8) ___ with dismay by residents, who suspect that something essential, the noise, the smoke and the pleasure of eating on the pavement, will be lost along with the mess.

Food from a Stall

waited

dished

served

catered

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