Horses - Test 3

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Proficiency Testbuilder, 4th Edition, Mark Harrison, Macmillan

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

concern

business

point

matter

assumed

granted

given

read

subjected

undergone

submitted

committed

died

passed

dwindled

vanished

coerced

enforced

compelled

necessitated

expanded

increased

grew

enlarged

space

extent

stretch

distance

lookout

heed

vigilance

alert

Of the more than 4,000 species of mammals that have (0) ___ our earth over the past 10,000 years, the horse is one of fewer than a dozen which have been successfully domesticated. Domestication is not simply a (1) ___ of human intention. If it were, it is possible that we would now be sitting in our fireside chairs with a hyena curled at our feet. Much of what we take for (2) ___ as useful in the modern horse – speed, size and intelligence, for example – can be explained through the evolutionary changes it has (3) ___ in response to a changing diet. As the Ice Age advanced and forests (4) ___ away, to be replaced by windswept savannah, many herbivores were (5) ___ to change their diets from leaves to grass. The little leaf-browsing predecessor of our modern horse – the ur-horse – began to change and adapt to a new ecological niche on the plains. The head (6) ___ longer, with the eye positioned at some (7) ___ from the mouth, so that in exposed spaces it could keep a careful (8) ___ for predators while it grazed. A larger brain began to develop, probably because, as a grazer, it needed greater tactile sensitivity in its lips to choose its food.

Horses

resided

settled

dwelt

inhabited

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