Lighting a Town - Test 5

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English First 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.

totals

populations

numbers

inhabitants

meant

explained

showed

made

ending

conclusion

completion

result

brought

come

caught

got

budget

cost

expense

investment

reality

truth

principle

practicality

find

sit

stay

hold

passing

following

proceeding

continuing

The Norwegian town of Rjukan lies along the floor of a narrow valley, (0) ___ by sheer mountains. Because of its location, the town, with its 3,400 (1) ___ , has in the past lived in shadow for half the year. During the day, from late September to mid-March, the town gets no direct natural sunlight at all. Its residents all agreed this (2) ___ that the town was incredibly depressing during the winter months. However, that all changed in 2013 with the (3) ___ of a system of mirrors whose design Martin Anderson, an artist, had first (4) ___ up with some 12 years earlier. With financial (5) ___ from the local government and from several prominent business people, Anderson's idea became a (6) ___ . Today, high on the mountain opposite the town, (7) ___ three large solar-powered, computer-controlled mirrors (8) ___ the precise movement of the sun across the winter sky, reflecting its rays onto the town's market square and flooding it in bright sunlight.

Lighting a town

closed

contained

surrounded

shut

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