Тест по английскому на словарный запас по теме "History" №7

HISTORY. Choose the correct answer.

1. With an eighty-hour week and little chance or time for enjoyment, life must have been very ....... for the nineteenth-century factory worker.

anxious
dark
hard
pessimistic

2. A scholarship has been endowed to ....... the memory of Sister Mary's work among the blind.

encourage
foster
perpetuate
prolong

3. These tribes still ....... the years of colonial domination bitterly.

disregard
grudge
object
resent

4. Those columns have no practical purpose. They are purely ....... .

conspicuous
decorative
gaudy
outstanding

5. This castle has not been lived in for years and the rooms smell very ....... .

dirty
greasy
grimy
musty

6. Through the centuries of burning heat, the old castle walls had gradually ....... and little was left of them now.

crumbled
crumpled
powdered
shattered

7. There could have been a war over the disputed area but in the end reason ....... .

counted
induced
prevailed
survived

8. The stone for building the cathedral was obtained from local ....... .

excavations
mines
pits
quarries

9. Medieval travellers' tales of fantastic creatures were often fascinating but not always ....... .

conceivable
credible
credulous
imaginable

10. The ....... of the town-name is unknown, but it is certainly not from any Latin-based language.

descent
derivation
extract
genesis

11. The castle was surrounded by a ....... , which nowadays contains only occasional rainwater.

dyke
fence
hedge
moat

12. The Duke had to sell the castle because he could no longer afford its ....... .

outlay
subscription
sustenance
upkeep