CEPT Practice C2 Level Multiple-choice Cloze about Putting Pen to Paper

 

Putting Pen to Paper

 Journalists like myself are usually poor letter-writers. I have heard it (1)____ that this is because of the instinctive distaste we feel at writing something we are not going to be paid for, but I cannot believe we have quite such mercenary characters. It is more probably that (2)_____in our work, we are always (3)_____ to get the greatest possible effect, the essential spontaneity of a letter (4)____ us. The real creative artist, who does not consciously work on the effect at all (though he may re- write a passage dozens of times), does not have this problem. I believe that it is in this inherent grasp of the effect of his words that there (5)_____ the only sure test of the real artist. When Shakespeare wrote some of his famous lines he (6)_____ never thought consciously that it was the contrast between polysyllables that made them so effective, as well as showing him to be a great writer.

1 A said B told C remarked D presumed

2 A since B for C like D once

3 A striving B exerting C contending D tackling

4 A misses B escapes C avoids D passes

5 A goes B remains C lies D exists

6 A inevitably B confidently C particularly D surely

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