The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy - Test 3

B2 First · Word Formation · Cambridge B2 First 4, 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.

INTEND

EVIDENCE

WEIGH

FORTUNE

FOUND

STRAIGHT

RESTORE

CONFIDENCE

In 1173, (0) ___ work began on what was to become the 'Leaning Tower of Pisa'. It was, though, never the (17) ___ of the builders that the tower should lean. Pisa was a prosperous city and expensive marble was used to build the tower. After five years, it became (18) ___ that the tower was leaning because the soft soil was incapable of fully supporting the (19) ___ of the marble. Work was halted for almost a hundred years because of a series of wars. However, this long pause in the building work was (20) ___ for the tower as it gave the (21) ___ time to settle. If work had continued, the tower would almost certainly have collapsed. There were later attempts to (22) ___ the tower, but these were not always popular with the local inhabitants because the tower had become a tourist attraction. In 2008, following major (23) ___ work on the tower, engineers (24) ___ announced that the tower would remain stable for at least another two hundred years.

The leaning tower of Pisa, Italy

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