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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – MATCHING HEADINGS 
Read the text and put headings from the statements A-H.
There is 
one
 extra heading that you do not need.
 
 
 
TASK 19 
HEADINGS: 
A)
 
City management 
 
B) Interior of the houses 
C) Bright colours 
D) Busy waterway 
E) Meeting the city’s everyday needs 
F) City’s finance 
G) City architecture 
H) City’s leading position 
 
1. London was a good place to live in the fourteenth century, and all Londoners were very proud of it. It had a 
population of about forty thousand and that made it as large as the next four towns in England combined. Its 
political prestige was enormous, and whatever king occupied the throne in nearby Westminster, the opinions of 
Londoners had to be considered. 
2. In so busy a city, the problem of adequate water supply and sewage disposal and city cleaning were necessarily 
complicated. Each of the twenty-five areas of the city had at least one full-time street cleaner. Untidy trades like that 
of the butchers were kept as far away as possible from the centre. Each citizen had to have the road paved in front of 
his house. 
3. The city was democratically and intelligently run, and mostly by men who received no pay for their services. The 
mayor received a large grant for entertainment purposes, and the town-scrgeant and town-clerk were given salaries 
because theirs were full-time posts, but aldermen and members of the common council worked for nothing. They 
watched over the welfare of the city because they were its citizens. 
4. The houses were somewhat dark, especially when the wooden shutters had to be closed, as glass was expensive 
and of poor quality. Most of the houses in London were built tightly packed together, with each storey extending 
further towards the street than the last one and sometimes the top floors of buildings on opposite sides of the street 
were so big that they actually met in the middle. 
 
5. As if to compensate for the crooked dark streets and the small dark houses, the outsides of the houses were 
painted and carved, and priests walked in red and green boots. Even burial cloths were crimson and blue and gold. 
In churches, there were cloths of gold, with flowers and ostrich feathers woven of jewels and metallic thread. No 
one could have called London dull. 
6. A well-to-do family lived in a house where the main room was the hall. There were painted tables, cupboards and 
chairs with matching curtains in some bright, cheerful colour. The bedroom was a single upstairs room usually used 
by the whole family. The beds were the most valuable articles of furniture in the whole house. The kitchen and 
pantry were well equipped. 
7. The shortest and quickest route through London was by boat, and the river was never empty of the private barges 
of the nobility and the public boats of the watermen, who travelled back and forth as the fourteenth-century 
equivalent of a taxi system. There was also a constant movement of goods, with local boats bringing all the 
necessary things.