Outcomes Advanced p 45. A Music Festival. Extra MC Cloze


1 For questions 1–12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

The thing I like most about the summer is the Zodiac Folk Music Festival. (1) _____ beats listening to acoustic music in the sun and this family-friendly festival doesn’t (2) _____ the earth either. The moment we arrived we (3) _____ on the little camping area they have so we could (4) _____ our tents and then go for a wander. We soon found a great spot. I got out my funky new tent. (5) _____ I’d bought it was because I thought its bright green leafy design would blend in with nature and it certainly did. It was so easy to put up too and in no time all the pieces were slotted in place. Once the tents were up, we (6) _____ the direction of the music. All we wanted to do now was dance, and dance we would. The first band’s singer had a really lovely (7) _____ voice and really got the crowd going, but (8) _____ the next artist that we were (9) _____ by. Her voice was simply amazing. Being a small and (10) _____ music festival, it was easy to speak to her after her set and we somehow ended up tagging (11) _____ with her. We were so taken by her Texan drawl and bubbly personality that we soon became (12) _____ to everyone else.


1 A Something                        B Anything      C Nowhere      D Nothing
2 A cost                      B pay              C earn                         D cut
3 A keyed on              B poured in     C homed in     D knuckled down
4 A plant                     B make            C pitch            D build
5 A It’s only because B The thing that C The reason for D The reason why
6 A meandered for      B drifted in      C strayed off   D lingered in
7 A piercing                B shrill            C shrieky        D high-pitched
8 A it was                    B it will be       C it was being D being
9 A knocked down     B bowled away C startled over           D blown away
10 A loose                  B low-key       C restrained     D soothing
11 A by                       B on                C along           D in
12 Aoblivious                         B engrossed     C distracted     D absorbed




KEYS

1
1 D 



2 A 



3 C 



4 C 



5 D 



6 B 



7 D 



8 A 



9 D 



10 B 



11 C 



12 A

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