TEST 1 PAPER 1: READING Part 2 (questions 9-15)
Part 2
You are going to read an article by retired lawyer and keen cook John Griffiths. Seven sentences
have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (9-
15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
Cooking for friends
Choosing the degree I should study for at Planning a meal for people I love is a great
university was quite difficult for me as there were pleasure. I have a vast collection of cookery
two careers that I found equally attractive: the books and I am an avid fan of many a TV chef.
law and catering. After much soul searching, I The problem I have, therefore, is choosing what
realised that whilst I could be a lawyer during the to cook from so many different possibilities. How
day and then enjoy cookery as a form of do I choose? Well, that depends very much on
relaxation, the reverse was not true. Thus, I the friends. A starting point has to be catering for
opted for a law degree and made food and wine their own likes and dislikes and trying to avoid
my number one hobby. serving them the same dishes as last time they
visited. 1 12 1 1 I don’t claim to be anything
I have never regretted this decision. Working as other than an enthusiastic amateur but quite a
a lawyer provided a good living and allowed me few friends appear to be daunted by the prospect
enough spare time to indulge myself by enjoying of cooking for me. They seem to think that some
some very fine food and wines at many superb of the food I produce is better than they can do
restaurants. I 9 A life in catering would and, not wanting to appear to be a show-off or to
have meant that I would always have been overwhelm them, I sometimes hold back and
working when my friends were playing and vice cook something simpler than the more
versa. The hours that have to be worked by adventurous fare I might really have wanted to
chefs are quite ridiculous. They have to arrive at try.
their restaurant by mid-morning, at the latest, to
prepare for lunch. They work all afternoon The friends I like cooking for most of all are those
dealing with the business side of their who share the love of food and wine as much as
establishment and developing new recipes. I do and who are quite happy to reciprocate, in
Then, they must prepare for evening service grand style, when I pay them a return visit.
probably crawling into bed in the small hours of 13
the next morning feeling absolutely shattered!
I 10 I ] Generally, my cooking has become less complex
and pretentious over the years and, although I
Sharing my love of fine food and wines with good use recipe books and TV chefs as inspiration, I
friends in the relaxed atmosphere of my home tend to find that the best way of deciding what to
has more than compensated for not owning a cook is to see what is available when I do the
restaurant. I 11 I 1Being a professional chef shopping. Years ago, I would have retired early
probably would have meant that, by now, I would to bed with a great heap of books around me,
be sick of the sight of food, much as I am ploughing through them trying to find recipes that
completely turned off by the merest mention of would be seasonal, suitable and impressive only
anything to do with the law! to find that, when I visited the shops, many of the
ingredients I needed were either unavailable or
not very good.
