King of the Watchmakers - Test 3

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Proficiency Testbuilder, 4th Edition, Mark Harrison, Macmillan

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.

SYNONYM

RELY

HAND

POSITION

OWN

RESIDE

STAND

LIKELY

For a period of its history, the city of Coventry had a (0) ___ reputation as the main centre of clock and watchmaking in Britain and Coventry timepieces made then were (17) ___ with both quality and (18) ___ . Few people in the city today will have heard of Samuel Watson, but he almost (19) ___ paved the way for Coventry's involvement in the clock and watch business. Watson made his name in 1682 when he sold a clock to King Charles II. The following year he began work on an astronomical clock for the king, complete with planets and signs of the zodiac, which took seven years to build. It not only told the time of day but also the (20) ___ changes of the planets. Queen Mary acquired it in 1691 and it is still in the (21) ___ of the Royal Family. He built several other clocks, and by 1690 the clamour for Watson's clocks was such that he left Coventry and took up (22) ___ in London. He became Master of the London Clockmakers' Company in 1692, which is testament to his (23) ___ in the growing industry. In 1712, Samuel Watson's name disappears from the records of the London Clockmakers' company, and the (24) ___ is that he died in that year.

King of the Watchmakers

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