Cambridge C1 Advanced
C1 Advanced (CAE) - Reading Gapped Text 3
Read the text below from which six paragraphs have been removed. For each gap, choose the correct paragraph by putting the correct letter. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
A. Such thoughts served no purpose now. The decision had been made weeks ago in another restaurant much like this one, though the food there had been considerably worse and the implications far less palatable.
B. Each movement in the dining room caught my attention - a waiter emerging too quickly from the kitchen, a diner reaching inside his jacket, the maître d' speaking quietly into a house phone by the bar. Old habits died hard, even on one's last evening in the game.
C. In the corner, a piano player had begun a gentle rendition of something by Beethoven, though nobody seemed to be listening. The music merely added another layer to the carefully maintained illusion of normality.
D. The whole evening felt oddly ceremonial, as if I were attending my own professional funeral. Perhaps in a way, I was. The thought should have troubled me more than it did.
E. I hadn't meant to order it, but some part of me wanted this final meal to mirror that first dinner with Schneider back in '59. He had recommended the wine then, his knowledge of German vintages being one of his few genuine characteristics.
F. Even the tablecloths remained the same - starched white linen that could stand up by itself, crisp enough to crack. Time moved differently in places like this, as if the Wall had never been built and the city had never been divided.
G. How many similar scenes were playing out across Berlin tonight? How many other agents were sitting alone in restaurants, contemplating betrayal or resignation or worse? The city seemed to breed such moments.
