Boost your vocabulary Cambridge 11 - Test 01 - Passage 02

Which word is a synonym for central in this sentence: Opened in 2002, it is central to the ambitious £84.5m Millennium Link project to restore navigability across Scotland by reconnecting the historic waterways of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals.

• guarded

• vital

• alternate

• robust

Which word is a synonym for restore in this sentence: Opened in 2002, it is central to the ambitious £84.5m Millennium Link project to restore navigability across Scotland by reconnecting the historic waterways of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals.

• rebuild

• submit

• displace

• elevate

Which word is a synonym for sequence in this sentence: Historically, the two canals had been joined near the town of Falkirk by a sequence of 11 locks - enclosed sections of canal in which the water level could be raised or lowered - that stepped down across a distance of 1.5 km.

• series

• crane

• capacity

• aqueduct

Which word is a synonym for dismantle in this sentence: This had been dismantled in 1933, thereby breaking the link.

• exceed

• strong

• defend

• take apart

Which word is a synonym for launch in this sentence: When the project was launched in 1994, the British Waterways authority were keen to create a dramatic twenty-first-century landmark which would not only be a fitting commemoration of the Millennium, but also a lasting symbol of the economic regeneration of the region.

• revolution

• clamp

• start

• emission

Which word is a synonym for submit in this sentence: Numerous ideas were submitted for the project, including concepts ranging from rolling eggs to tilting tanks, from giant seesaws to overhead monorails.

• stimulate

• attach

• disperse

• propose

Which word is a synonym for assemble in this sentence: The various parts of The Falkirk Wheel were all constructed and assembled, like one giant toy building set, at Butterley Engineering's Steelworks in Derbyshire, some 400 km from Falkirk.

• displace

• conceal

• gather

• conquer

Which word is a synonym for painstakingly in this sentence: A team there carefully assembled the 1,200 tonnes of steel, painstakingly fitting the pieces together to an accuracy of just 10 mm to ensure a perfect final fit.

• carefully

• randomly

• monopoly

• explicitly

Which word is a synonym for withstand in this sentence: The Wheel would need to withstand immense and constantly changing stresses as it rotated, so to make the structure more robust, the steel sections were bolted rather than welded together.

• propose

• resist

• disperse

• stimulate

Which word is a synonym for immense in this sentence: The Wheel would need to withstand immense and constantly changing stresses as it rotated, so to make the structure more robust, the steel sections were bolted rather than welded together.

• sensitive

• isolated

• enormous

• inevitable