C1 Advanced · Reading & Use of English · Part 7
Put the removed sentences back into the right gaps in the text.
Whole paragraphs have been removed from a text and you put them back, which makes this a different task from its B2 equivalent rather than a harder version of it. Each option is long enough to contain its own argument, so you are matching the flow of a whole idea into a gap, not just hooking up a reference word. It is a cohesion task at paragraph scale.
Work the gaps in the order that is easiest, not the order they appear. Some are decided by a single unmistakable link; do those first and the field narrows for the rest. Read across the gap — what follows it constrains the answer as much as what precedes it. And always check the extra option that fits nowhere: if it slotted in comfortably somewhere, you have made a mistake earlier.
Because the units are paragraphs, the clue is more often the shape of the argument than a single word — a paragraph that answers a question raised just before it, or one that introduces a point the next paragraph develops. Read the text through first for the line of reasoning; at this length, placing options by surface links alone will strand you on the last two gaps.
To stop the last gap being free. There is always one more option than there are gaps, so working by elimination alone will not carry you to the end — every gap has to be justified by an actual link in the text.
Reference and linking words at the start and end of each option — "this", "such", "these", "instead", "even so", "a year later". They tie an option to one specific position far more reliably than topic does, because several options usually share the topic.
