A Lost Amazonian Civilisation - Test 6

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · C1 Advanced Trainer 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

declined

dismissed

denied

dispelled

form

model

pattern

feature

virtually

roughly

practically

relatively

sought

probed

scoured

peered

ranging

lining

covering

grading

over

about

across

through

size

force

charge

weight

left

set

put

stepped

In the early years of the 16th century, the first Europeans to travel to the Amazon region (0) ___ seeing widespread settlements, including cities and roads. These accounts were subsequently (1) ___ as fantasies, however, and for centuries the region was considered a largely untouched wilderness. In recent decades, however, deforestation has helped reveal evidence, mainly in the (2) ___ of large earthworks, of extensive ancient settlements. In one recent study of a (3) ___ remote part of the Amazon, researchers (4) ___ satellite images and identified 81 ancient sites, (5) ___ from single hamlets to large fortified villages. The team also visited many sites and came (6) ___ fragments of ceramics and other traces of human presence. These discoveries have added (7) ___ to the idea that populations in the Amazon were much greater than once thought, and it is now estimated that as many as 10 million people lived there. What happened to them all? According to one expert, ‘Diseases travelled faster than people, and populations were weakened by European diseases, like smallpox, even before Europeans ever (8) ___ foot in the area.’

A lost Amazonian civilisation

informed

announced

reported

notified

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