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Gap-Fill Activities
- Upper Intermediate / Advanced -
Read the four texts below, and chose the word which best fits each gap from the list below each exercise.
Exercise One
Pitcairn Island
The Pitcairn Islands are 
in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway
Peru and New Zealand. The larger island of Pitcairn was
in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the mutineers from the English ship `Bounty` and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn was the
Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today
the last vestige of the British empire in the South Pacific. The population of about 50 are the
of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives. English is the official language, but many islanders communicate in Pitcairnese (a pidgin language comprising of elements of 18th century English and a Tahitian dialect).
The
of this tiny island exist on fishing, subsistence farming, handicrafts, and postage stamps. The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide
of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans. Bartering is an
part of the economy. The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing
. It has no port or
harbour; and supplies must be transported by rowed longboat from larger ships stationed
.
1    a) located    b) sited    c) stationed    d) settled
2    a) middle    b) between    c) centre    d) close
3    a) uncovered    b) discovered    c) created    d) invented
4    a) opening    b) premiere    c) beginning    d) first
5    a) remains    b) remnant    c) spare    d) residue
6    a) ancestors    b) descendants    c) heir    d) successor
7    a) dwellers    b) tenants    c) inhabitants    d) public
8    a) different    b) variety    c) types    d) diversity
9    a) crucial    b) important    c) major    d) vital
10    a) cars    b) planes    c) motor-boats    d) ships
11    a) natural    b) pure    c) native    d) creation
12    a) offshore    b) inshore    c) shore    d) coast
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Exercise Two
TRINITY COLLEGE
Trinity College was 1) ___________ by Sir Thomas Pope in 1555. A devout catholic with no surviving children, Thomas Pope saw the Foundation of an Oxford college as a means of 2) ___________that he and his family would always be remembered in the prayers and masses of its members. He came from a family of small 3) _____________ in Oxfordshire, trained as a lawyer, and rose rapidly to prominence 4) ____________ Henry VIII. As Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations he handled the estates of the monasteries                  5) _______________ at the Reformation, and amassed a considerable personal 6) _____________. Pope was a discreet and trusted privy counsellor of Mary Tudor, and it was from Mary and Philip that he 7) ______ Letters Patent and royal approval for his new foundation. Pope died in 1559. Although his religious 8) ______ were never fully realised - Elizabeth I had succeeded her sister and England 9) __________  to the Protestant faith - nonetheless the memory of his name, like his college, has endured the fluctuating fortunes of over 400 years. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was a particularly influential 10) ___________ in Trinity`s early years. Pope`s foundation was for a President, twelve Fellows and twelve scholars, all supported by the income from his 11) ______________ endowment of lands, and for up to twenty undergraduates. The Fellows, all men, were required to take Holy Orders and remain unmarried. The College Statutes set out rules for a simple monastic life of religious observance and study. The Garden was an informal grove of trees, mainly elms, amongst which the members of the College could 12) ______________ and meditate.
1    a) founded    b) set    c) begin    d)starting
2    a) securing     b) ensuring    c) clinching    d) verifying
3    a) owners    b) landowners    c) freeholders    d) mistresses
4    a) with     b) on        c) under    d) because
5     a) dissolved    b) disintegrated    c) crumbled    d) withered
6    a) fortune    b) wealth    b) rich    d) money
7    a) inherited    b) conferred    b) received    d) excepted
8    a) ideals    b) examples    c) belief    d) value
9    a) rejoined    b) repeated    c) returned    d) reinstated
10    a) outline    b) symbol    c) shape    d) figure
11    a) generous    b) generosity     c) bounty    d) teeming 
12    a) prowl    b) walk    c) promenade    d) yomp
 
ANSWERS
1) a) founded 2) b) ensuring 3) b) landowners 4) c) under 5) a) dissolved 6) a) fortune 7) b) received 8) a) ideals 9) c) returned              10) d) figure    11) a) generous 12) b) walk
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Exercise Three
Mulligatawny Soup
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