CLOZE TEST: SMIRTING

Hello girls,
Here you have a cloze test, complete the gaps with the words from the chart.
The key is below the test.
Have a nice weekend!

Smoke clears . . . and their eyes meet

ACCORDING	CIGARETTE	FLIRTING	NEVER	UMBRELLAS
ALWAYS	COMMONPLACE	FORBIDDEN	PLACES	SOLIDARITY
BAN	ETIQUETTE	FORGOTTEN	PROBLEM	STAMMERED
BARMAN	EVERY	FREEZING	PUB	TEETH
BONDING	FELT	LIGHTER	QUICKENING	WEDDINGS

FROM the instant she saw him across the smoke-free bar, an eyebrow slightly raised and his dark eyes full of mystery, she 0._______ her whole body quiver with desire.

He motioned to the door and she followed him outside.

“Well?” he said, his voice dropping to a delicious whisper. “Do you fancy one?” She stared into his hazel-brown eyes, her pulse 1._______ as she took in the manly contours of his chest and shoulders. “I’m Tandy,” she 2._______ as he pulled the cigarette packet from his pocket. “I’m Jake,” he said, moving closer as he offered a light.

“So, er, what do you make of this smoking 3._______ ?”It may not quite be from the pages of the latest Jilly Cooper bodice-ripper, but a wave of high-intensity flirting, with its very own 4._______ and code, is heading for Britain.

With a ban on smoking in public 5._______ coming into force in Scotland this month, and England and Wales next year, pubs and bars across the country are bracing themselves for an invasion of “smirting” — the combination of flirting and smoking that has taken the Irish Republic by storm.

From Dublin to Dingle, the outside of 6._______ pub in Ireland, where smoking in public places was banned two years ago, is now crowded with smokers giggling as they huddle beneath 7._______ and share cigarettes.

The smirters are young and old, gay and straight. Some had never touched a 8._______ until the ban, but have become smokers to spice up their love lives.Many are serial smirters; others do not know that they are smirting until it is too late.

9._______ to one study in Ireland, 27 per cent of people have met a partner while having an al-fresco cigarette. The phenomenon has led to one-night stands, 10._______ and divorces.

As he watched the smokers outside his pub yesterday, Damien Furlong, the 11._______ at McDaid’s pub in Dublin, said: “I’m married with three kids so I can’t do it myself but there’s a fair bit of the smirting that goes on. It’s like there’s some kind of 12._______ between the smokers.”

Tracey Cox, author of the bestselling Superflirt, said: “We have to brace ourselves for this. Being outside the pub will become the hot place to be. Smokers have 13._______ been seen as the risk-taking and fun people, but when it’s 14._______ and naughty that makes you think about sex.

“Half the time it’ll be so 15._______ that you’ll have to stand next to each other. Standing outside and having a smoke suddenly becomes an incredibly 16._______ thing to do.”

In Ireland smirting has become so 17._______ that it has even developed its own code. Above all, those wanting to smirt should make sure that they never have their own 18._______ while no matter how funny a joke is, it is best to avoid flashing those nicotine-stained 19._______ or coughing up phlegm. 

With the ban becoming law in Scotland on March 26, a local newspaper recently urged all Scots to embrace smirting with all the vigour of the Irish. “No, it’s not dangerous, illegal or infectious,” one columnist wrote.

“In my smoking days, I took a trip across the water (to Ireland) and the ciggie-zones were where all the great chat and 20._______ was taking place. There was smirting aplenty. And, er, some smissing.” 

KEY

0. FELT
1. QUICKENING	5. PLACES	9. ACCORDING	13. ALWAYS	17. COMMONPLACE
2. STAMMERED	6. EVERY	10. WEDDINGS	14. FORBIDDEN	18. LIGHTER
3. BAN	7. UMBRELLAS	11. BARMAN	15. FREEZING	19. TEETH
4. ETIQUETTE	8. CIGARETTE	12. SOLIDARITY	16. BONDING	20. FLIRTING