The Oldest House in Britain - Test 5

B2 First · Word Formation · Cambridge English First 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.

NEAR

KNOW

WIDE

INVESTIGATE

ORIGIN

DISCOVER

EVIDENT

SURE

It was warm, round, had a (0) ___ view of a lake and appears to have been occupied for several hundred years. Welcome to the oldest house in the UK, which was found with other fascinating relics (1) ___ at a site in North Yorkshire. These remains are transforming our (2) ___ of how Britain's earliest inhabitants lived. The structure was 3.5 metres in (3) ___ and was supported by a circle of wooden posts. Dark, decayed matter at the centre of the ruin suggests the possibility of a roof entirely made of grasses. (4) ___ of the remains by scientists revealed that the building stood in 8,500 BC. It was (5) ___ thought that people living in Britain at this time were nomadic with no fixed homes. But the (6) ___ of the oldest known house provides clear (7) ___ that some of these people built large permanent structures. Researchers of the site, however, are (8) ___ about how long the house will remain the 'oldest' in the UK, because new finds are being made all the time.

The oldest house in Britain

FANTASY

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