Multiple-choice cloze
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
Rhona Bell has spent twenty years as a volunteer with a mountain rescue team in the Scottish Highlands, and her first book is a account of what that commitment involves. Call-outs can come at any hour, and team members must whatever they are doing, whether that is a family meal or a night's sleep. Bell is refreshingly honest about the toll this takes, and she does not her words when describing the occasions when things went wrong. One chapter recalls a search that was off after three days, only for the missing walker to be found alive by a farmer the following week. than dwell on blame, Bell uses the episode to explore how exhaustion affects judgement. If there is a in the ointment, it is that the middle section, which deals with equipment and training, goes into more detail than most readers will need. But this is a minor complaint. By the final chapter, it is hard not to in awe of people who give up so much of their time and ask for nothing in .
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