8. Language use Task 2 (2013.g.)

Task 2 (10 points)
Fill each of the numbered gaps in the following passage with the most appropriate word from the wordbank. Use only one word in each space. Write the appropriate letter in the gap. The task begins with an example (0). Note that there are more words than gaps.

  

Daily Mail, London, July 15, 2011: Forget planking, ‘owling’ is the new online picture craze that is turning heads (0)       I     the world.

 

Hundreds of young people in America, Australia and now, Britain, have taken up the new ‘owling’ craze. The (1)  is a development of the popular craze of ‘planking’ in (2)  people would take pictures of themselves lying face down in strange (3).

As the term implies, owling means perching on something the (4)   an owl does and (5) into the distance just (6)  everyone’s favourite bird of prey. ‘Owling’ is (7)  to have started in Australia within the last few weeks; (8)  its relative youth, the owling craze already has two popular Facebook groups dedicated to it, on which more than 1,000 people are listed as (9).

Other social websites including Reddit also feature pictures of young people taking
(10)  in the craze. The trendspotting site BuzzFeed has described ‘owling’ as a ‘worthy successor’ to planking.