When the Coffee Shops Arrive

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

DESIRE

REPUTE

STEEP

ATTRACT

ELDER

PLACE

MARK

CHANGE

The pattern is (0) ___ in cities across the world. Artists and students, drawn by low rents, settle in a run-down and supposedly (1) ___ district. Galleries and cafés follow, the area gains a (2) ___ for creativity, and property prices begin to rise (3) ___ . Before long, the very people who made the neighbourhood (4) ___ can no longer afford to live there. Those hit hardest are usually the long-standing residents, many of them (5) ___ or on modest incomes, who are gradually (6) ___ to cheaper districts further from the centre. The corner shops and launderettes that served them give way to businesses catering to a (7) ___ wealthier clientele, and a community that took generations to form can dissolve within a decade. Yet the story is rarely simple. Investment can bring safer streets, better schools and new jobs, and keeping a neighbourhood (8) ___ forever is neither possible nor, perhaps, even wise. The challenge for city authorities is to welcome renewal without allowing it to push out the people for whom the district was home long before it became fashionable.

When the Coffee Shops Arrive

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