The World's Oldest Known Bread - Test 3

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · C1 Advanced Trainer 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

METHODOLOGY

DATE

DISCOVER

PRIMARY

PRESENT

EXCEPTION

CONSUME

EMERGE

Archaeologists working at a site in Jordan recently found the oldest reported (0) ___ of bread. Identified by means of new (1) ___ developments involving the magnification of tiny fragments of food, the bread is about 14,400 years old and (2) ___ the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The (3) ___ was made in a location used, over thousands of years, by early hunter-gatherers. At that time, humans gathered and consumed food for purposes that were (4) ___ nutritional, but archaeologists think the huge effort required to produce bread meant it was probably reserved for special occasions. ‘The (5) ___ of the ancient remains of burned food in the fireplaces at this site gives us some (6) ___ useful insights,’ said one researcher. ‘Bread represents a major change in eating practices, away from food as merely a source of energy to the (7) ___ of food for social and cultural reasons. We used to think agriculture led to the development of bread, but now we think bread-making, with wild grain, may have influenced the (8) ___ of the practice of growing crops – in other words, the beginning of agriculture.’

The world’s oldest known bread

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