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EF C1.1 p 26. Roald Dahl: Boy. Open Cloze and Word Formation
Open Cloze
Part 1 Every (1)_____________ and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished (2)__________ to each boy in our House, and this, (3)____________ it or not, was a
present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Inside
the box there were twelve (4)___________ of chocolate, all of different
shapes, all with different fillings, and all with numbers from one
to twelve stamped on the chocolate underneath. Also in the box there was a (5)__________ of paper with the
numbers one to twelve on it as well as two blank columns, one
for giving marks to each chocolate from nought to ten, and the
other for comments.
Word formation
All we were required to do in return for this (6)___________ (SPLENDOUR) gift was
to taste very (7)_____________ (CARE) each bar of chocolate, give it marks, and
make an intelligent comment on why we loved or (8)___________ (LIKE) it.
It was a clever stunt. Cadbury’s were using some of the (9)____________ (GREAT) chocolate-bar experts in the world to test out their
new inventions. We were of a sensible age, between thirteen
and eighteen, and we knew (10)___________ (INTIMACY) every chocolate bar in (11)_____________ (EXIST), from the Milk Flake to the Lemon Marshmallow. Quite (12)____________ (OBVIOUS) our opinions on anything new would be (13)___________ (VALUE). All of
us entered into this game with great gusto, sitting in our studies
and nibbling each bar with the air of connoisseurs, giving our
marks and making our comments. ‘Too subtle for the common
palate’ was one note that I remember writing down.
Part 2
For me, the (14)_____________ (IMPORTANT) of all this was that I began to realize
that the large chocolate companies (15)_____________ (ACTUAL) did possess
inventing rooms and they took their inventing very (16)_____________ (SERIOUS).
I used to picture a long white room like a laboratory with pots
of chocolate and fudge and all sorts of other delicious fillings
bubbling away on the stoves, while men and women in white
coats moved between the bubbling pots, tasting and mixing and
concocting their wonderful new (17)_____________ (INVENT). I used to imagine
myself working in one of these labs and suddenly I would come
up with something so (18)________________ (BEAR) delicious that I would grab it
in my hand and go rushing out of the lab and along the corridor
and right into the offices of the great Mr Cadbury himself. ‘I’ve
got it, Sir’ I would shout, putting the chocolate in front of him.
‘It’s fantastic! It’s fabulous! It’s marvellous! It’s (19)_______________ (RESIST)!’
Slowly, the great man would pick up my newly-invented
chocolate and he would take a small bite. He would roll it round
his mouth. Then all at once, he would leap up from his chair,
crying, ‘You’ve got it! You’ve done it! It’s a miracle!’ He would
slap me on the back and shout, ‘We’ll sell it by the million! We’ll
sweep the world with this one! How on earth did you do it? Your
salary is doubled.’
It was lovely dreaming those dreams, and I have no doubt at
all that thirty-five years later, when I was looking for a plot
for my second book for children, I remembered those little
cardboard boxes and the (20)____________ (NEW) invented chocolates inside them,
and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.
KEY
1. now
(every) now and then/again: sometimes, but not very often. From time to time. Occasionally.
E.g.
We meet up for lunch now and then, but not as often as we used to.
2. out
dish something out (informal): to give something, often to a lot of people or in large amounts. Sp. repartir.
E.g.
Students dished out leaflets to passers-by.
She's always dishing out advice, even when you don't want it
3. believe
believe it or not (informal): used to introduce information that is true but that may surprise people.
E.g.
Believe it or not, he asked me to marry him!
4. bars
a bar of chocolate
5. sheet
a sheet of paper
6. splendid
7. carefully
8. disliked
9. greatest
10. intimately
11. existence
12. obviously
13. valuable/ invaluable
14. importance
15. actually
16. seriously
17. inventions
18. unbearably
19. irresistible
20. newly
EF C1.1 p 14. The Night Receptionist. Word Formation
People assume I get bored, but I enjoy the (1)___________ (SOLITARY) . I like the (2)_________ (HOUR) walks through the quiet corridors and listening to the patter of the rain on the windows while enjoying a cup of tea. I enjoy finishing a good book or watching the birds in the car park feeding on the muffins I put out yesterday.
The (3)___________ (TIRED) is the hardest. Sometimes I have a good routine and my sleep is not affected. Other times, I walk into doors, zombie-like, and (4)____________ (OCCASION) I’ve been surprised to find that I’ve actually made it home. My husband tells me I should find a new job, and I have been applying for some since I began working here, but ‘night receptionist’ is not a good thing to put on a CV.
I’m good with people; I just don’t like a lot of them. But though my job often (5)____________(PERPETUAL) this (6)__________(LIKE), I am (7)______________ (COMPASSION) towards those in need. I never think twice about letting someone in from the cold, or giving away a free room if it is a genuine cause. But if the intercom goes off at 2 a.m. and I see a couple who can hardly stand, I’ll probably say the hotel is full, even when it isn’t, (8)____________ (ESPECIAL) if I’ve just prepared a (9)____________(NOURISHMENT) AND (10)____________ (APPETITE) midnight snack.
KEY
1. solitude
2. hourly
3. tiredness
4. occasionally
5. perpetuates
6. dislike
7. compassionate
8. especially
9. NOURISHING
10. APPETIZING
EF p 12. 25 Jobs Before She Was 25. Cloze
Emma Rosen had one of the best, (1)___________ sought-after graduate
jobs in the country, in the civil service. 20,000 people apply, but (2)____________ than 1,000 are offered jobs. But it turned (3)___________ that she
didn’t like commuting and she didn’t like sitting (4)___________ a desk all day,
and she struggled to see how (5)____________ she was doing would make
much difference to anything. ‘I thought, ‘Get (6)_____________ it, you’re being
a snowflake millennial,’’ she says. ‘I had a job for life. I thought,
‘I’m so lucky to be here, I can’t believe I’m not enjoying it. What’s
wrong with me? (7)___________ am I so ungrateful and selfish?’’
Emma (8)_____________ have gone to work every day and complained (9)________________ her job (10)__________________ she reached retirement age. (11)_____________, she decided
to find out what made her happy, what her skills were, and what
sort of career (12)____________ use them. She wrote a bucket (13)_____________ of the
jobs she had wanted to do (14)____________ childhood and set (15)_____________ getting
two-week placements in all of them, over the course of a year.
She was 24 years old, and before her 25th birthday she wanted
to have tried out at (16)______________ 25 different jobs. She spent the months
before she resigned from the civil service saving up her salary to
cover the cost of her year off, and spent all her free time setting (17)____________ the different jobs.
‘There was archaeology in Transylvania, property development
for a company in London, alpaca farming in Cornwall, wedding
photography, travel writing, interior design, journalism, landscape
gardening, marketing, TV production, publishing – all things that
I thought I (18)____________ want to do.’
KEY
1. most
2. fewer
3. out
4. at
5. what
6. over
7. Why
8. could
9. about
10. until
11. Instead
12. would
13. list
14. since
15. about
16. least
17. up
set up: organise
E.g.
Can we set up a meeting for 8 November?
18. might
Ready for C1 p 5. Boot Found on Everest. Open Cloze and Listening
Last month, a team of climbers filming a National Geographic documentary stumbled (3)______________ a preserved boot, revealed by melting ice on a glacier.
This boot was believed (4)______________ belong to Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory.
What's (5)______________, it could potentially help solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries: (6)______________ or not the pair succeeded (7)___________ becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top.
Well-known adventurer Jimmy Chin, who led the team for National Geographic, hailed the discovery of the boot - with a foot inside it - (8)_______________ a "monumental and emotional moment".
A number of people have searched (9)____________ Irvine's body over the years, partly because the 22-year-old is said to have been carrying a camera with an undeveloped film inside, potentially with a photograph of the pair at the summit.
Could the discovery of the boot be the first step to finding his body - and the camera?
The family have now given a DNA sample to help confirm the foot is indeed Irvine - but the filmmaking team is fairly confident it belongs to the mountaineer. The sock found inside the boot has a name tag stitched into it with the words "A.C. Irvine".
"I mean, dude... there's a label on it," Chin, who is known for making Oscar-winning climbing documentary Free Solo alongside his wife, (10)____________ quoted as saying in a National Geographic report.
The team made the discovery as they descended the Central Rongbuk Glacier by the north face of Everest in September.
Along the way, they found an oxygen bottle marked with the date 1933. An Everest expedition that year had found an item belonging to Irvine.
Energised by this possible sign that Irvine's body could be nearby, the team searched the glacier for several days, before one of them saw the boot emerging from melting ice.
It was a fortuitous find - they estimated the ice had only melted a week before their discovery.
The foot has since been removed from the mountain because of concerns that ravens were disturbing it, according to reports, and passed to the Chinese mountaineering authorities who govern the north face of Everest.
For Irvine's descendants, the discovery has been emotional - especially in this, the centenary year of his disappearance.
Summers had grown up hearing stories of her grandmother's adventurous, Oxford-educated younger brother, who they knew as "Uncle Sandy".
"My grandmother had a photo of him by her bed until the day she died," she recalled. "She said he was a better man than anyone would ever be."
Birkenhead-born Irvine was just 22 when he disappeared, the youngest member of an expedition that has intrigued the mountaineering world for a century.
He and Mallory were last seen alive on 8 June 1924 as they set off for the peak.
Mallory's body would not be found until 1999 by an American climber.
In recent decades, the search for the climbers' remains has been mired in controversy amid suspicions that the bodies were moved.
Summers has always dismissed those stories and suspicions, revealing her feeling of "relief" following the Chin's call that "he was still there on the mountain".
But what if it could now be proved that Irvine and Mallory reached the summit, becoming the first to do so - an idea which, Summers acknowledged, would "turn mountaineering history onto its head"?
"It would be nice - we would all feel very proud," she said. "But the family has always maintained the mystery, and the story of how far they got and how brave they were, was really what it was about."
And anyway, she said, "the only way we will ever know is if we find a picture in the camera he was believed to be carrying".
The search, she suspects, will now continue for that camera. "I think it will be irresistible," she said. Whether it will be found remains to be seen.
Chin, meanwhile, is hoping that the boot's discovery - "a monumental and emotional moment for us and our entire team on the ground" - will "finally bring peace of mind to his relatives and the climbing world at large".
For Summers, it is a chance to remind the world about a young man "who took life and lived it", embracing every opportunity - and above all, was "having fun". But perhaps surprisingly, she and her cousins are grateful the older generation were not here for this discovery. "For them, Everest is his grave," she explained.
Adapted from The BBC
KEY
1. who
2. up
3. on/ upon/ across
stumble across/on/upon something/somebody
to discover something/somebody unexpectedly or by chance. Come across.
E.g.
I stumbled across Thompson outside the hotel.
Researchers have stumbled upon a drug that may help patients with Parkinson’s disease.
4. to
5. more
6. whether
"whether or not" focuses on the uncertainty or doubt about a particular event
7. in
8. as
hail somebody/something as something
to describe someone or something as being very good. Sp. considerar como
E.g.
Union leaders hailed the socialists’ victory as a huge step forward.
This latest piece of technology is being hailed as the answer to all our problems.
9. for
10. was
A sock (2)_______________ with Mr Irvin name AC Irvine and a boot have been found on the North Face of Mount Everest.
The two explorers disappeared together during their (3)________________ attempt to summit the highest mountain on Earth.
It is hoped that this discovery will help us understand more about what happened in that (5)_____________ climb.
He was a brave young man with an (6)________________ for adventure.
His name is (7)_____________ linked with George Mallory and Mount Everest and the tragedy of 1924.
His name is (7)_____________ linked with George Mallory and Mount Everest and the tragedy of 1924.
AC Irvine was a great (8)_____________ and a skier.
The sites of Irvine's great adventure became his final (9)_____________ place.
KEY
1. renowned
2. embroidered
3. ill-fated
4. stitched
The sites of Irvine's great adventure became his final (9)_____________ place.
KEY
1. renowned
2. embroidered
3. ill-fated
4. stitched
5. fateful
fateful:
having an important, often very bad, effect on future events.
E.g.
She looked back now to that fateful day in December. his final fateful journey to Moscow
Sp. fatídico, transcendental
6. appetite
fateful:
having an important, often very bad, effect on future events.
E.g.
She looked back now to that fateful day in December. his final fateful journey to Moscow
Sp. fatídico, transcendental
6. appetite
7. inextricably
if two things are inextricably linked, etc., it is impossible to separate them.
E.g.
Europe's foreign policy is inextricably linked with that of the US.
She had become inextricably involved in the campaign
8. oarsman
/ˈɔːzmən/ a man who rows a boat, especially as a member of a crew (= team)
if two things are inextricably linked, etc., it is impossible to separate them.
E.g.
Europe's foreign policy is inextricably linked with that of the US.
She had become inextricably involved in the campaign
8. oarsman
/ˈɔːzmən/ a man who rows a boat, especially as a member of a crew (= team)
9. resting
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