Use of English
Word Formation - Example 3
B2 First Exam
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Note: the format of this exercise has been modified for this website. On the exam, all the words between the brackets [] will be in a column to the right of the text. To see an example of this, click here.
Part 3
Part 3
For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.
Example:
The oldest house in Britain
The oldest house in Britain
It was warm, round, had a (0) _______________ [FANTASY] view of a lake and appears to have been occupied for several hundred years. Welcome to the oldest house in the UK, which was found with other fascinating relics (17) _______________ [NEAR] at a site in North Yorkshire. These remains are transforming our (18) _______________ [KNOW] of how Britain’s earliest inhabitants lived.
The structure was 3.5 metres in (19) _______________ [WIDE] and was supported by a circle of wooden posts. Dark, decayed matter at the centre of the ruin suggests the possibility of a roof entirely made of grasses. (20) _______________ [INVESTIGATE] of the remains by scientists revealed that the building stood in 8,500 BC. It was (21) _______________ [ORIGINE] thought that people living in Britain at this time were nomadic with no fixed homes. But the (22) _______________ [DISCOVER] of the oldest known house provides clear (23) _______________ [EVIDENT] that some of these people built large permanent structures. Researchers of the site, however, are (24) _______________ [SURE] about how long the house will remain the ‘oldest’ in the UK, because new finds are being made all the time.
Answers
Answers
It was warm, round, had a (0) FANTASTIC view of a lake and appears to have been occupied for several hundred years. Welcome to the oldest house in the UK, which was found with other fascinating relics (17) NEARBY at a site in North Yorkshire. These remains are transforming our (18) KNOWLEDGE of how Britain’s earliest inhabitants lived.
The structure was 3.5 metres in (19) WIDTH and was supported by a circle of wooden posts. Dark, decayed matter at the centre of the ruin suggests the possibility of a roof entirely made of grasses. (20) INVESTIGATIONS of the remains by scientists revealed that the building stood in 8,500 BC. It was (21) ORIGINALLY thought that people living in Britain at this time were nomadic with no fixed homes. But the (22) DISCOVERY of the oldest known house provides clear (23) EVIDENCE that some of these people built large permanent structures. Researchers of the site, however, are (24) UNSURE about how long the house will remain the ‘oldest’ in the UK, because new finds are being made all the time.
17. NEARBY 18. KNOWLEDGE 19. WIDTH 20. INVESTIGATIONS 21. ORIGINALLY 22. DISCOVERY 23. EVIDENCE 24. UNSURE
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