Ejercicio 2 · Open cloze
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Ejercicio 2 · Open cloze
Escribe UNA sola palabra en cada hueco.
The last shop on the road
For nearly forty years, the shop at the crossroads sold everything (1) newspapers to fence wire. It survived two supermarkets opening in the nearest town, largely (2) it was the only place within nine miles where you could buy milk after six.
What finally closed it was not competition (3) arithmetic. The owner, who had taken over from her father, calculated that she was working eleven hours a day (4) order to earn less than she would have done stacking shelves elsewhere. (5) she announced that she was retiring, several customers offered to help, but none of them offered to buy the business.
The building is now a house. On the wall, (6) the new owners have kept, there is still a faded metal sign advertising a brand of tea that stopped being made in 1978. Visitors assume it is decoration. (7) fact it is simply the sign that was always there, and taking it down would have cost more (8) leaving it up.
- (1)from — from … to … marca los extremos de una gama.
- (2)because — introduce la causa; largely because = en buena medida porque.
- (3)but — not X but Y contrapone las dos ideas.
- (4)in — in order to = para.
- (5)When — la oración temporal encaja con el but posterior.
- (6)which — relativo que se refiere a the wall.
- (7)In — in fact = en realidad.
- (8)than — comparativo obligado detrás de more.