Welcome to Mr Aslanov’s CEFR lessons – LEVEL B2 Get guaranteed intensive CEFR courses with us!!! Call and join our team now: + 998 94 633 32 30 LEXICAL & GRAMMAR COMPETENCE – TEST 2 The Archipelago In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. Each island is inhabited by a
different race of people. Although physically they look alike, you can tell them Q1________ by
their styles of dress and their distinctive dialects. Each island has its own unique form of
architecture. The only similarity between them is that each race builds in a manner that is
Q2_______ odds with the environment. On rocky hillsides there are wooden huts and in wooded
valleys you can see towns of brick. Arid uplands are irrigated and planted with leafy gardens,
whereas, on fertile plains, the parks are paved with stone. Q3_________ their differences, the
islanders coexist peacefully. There is rivalry over certain fishing waters but it rarely Q4_______ to
more than a few heated exchanges.
At the centre of the archipelago, perhaps in the most favoured spot of all, lies an island that
has been deserted for many generations. It looks very different from the rest: darker, taller, silent.
There is no obvious reason Q5_________ its abandonment as it has good soil and plenty of
freshwater.
Long ago, it was inhabited by farmers and fishermen much like everywhere else in the
archipelago, but everything changed when they started building the first wall. As soon as it was
finished a second circle of battlements began to rise from the centre, slightly narrower than the one
before, so that from faraway the island Q6_________ an enormous wedding cake.
Nobody can explain why the wall was started but there are many theories as to why it was
never finished. Some say that so many had perished during its construction, that no one dared halt
the work and thereby admit that it had all been in vain. Others claim that the builders simply
Q7________ out of materials. But one thing is certain, the predicted threat never arrived and the
people at the centre of the archipelago had, quite simply, bricked themselves in.
Q1. A) out
B) off
C) apart
D) aside
Q2. A) over
B) at
C) against
D) on
Q3. A) Despite
B) In spite
C) Besides
D) Although
Q4. A) raises
B) attains
C) amounts
D) achieves
Q5. A) with
B) to
C) of
D) for
Q6. A) recollected
B) reminded
C) resembled
D) remembered
Q7. A) went
B) ran
C) grew
D) came