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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – MATCHING HEADINGS
Read the text and put headings from the statements A-H.
There is
one
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.
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