Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 13 - Test 4 - Passage 01

Which word is a synonym for VESSELS  in this sentence: The fastest commercial sailing VESSELS of all time were clippers, three-masted ships built to transport goods around the world, although some also took passengers.

• boat
• phenomenon
• chilly
• theme

Which word is a synonym for TRANSPORT  in this sentence: The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were clippers, three-masted ships built to TRANSPORT goods around the world, although some also took passengers.

• transfer
• lottery
• artificial
• expiration

Which word is a synonym for GOODS  in this sentence: The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were clippers, three-masted ships built to transport GOODS around the world, although some also took passengers.

• dismal
• pdisappointment
• strategy
• merchandise

Which word is a synonym for DOMINATED  in this sentence: From the 1840s until 1869, when the Suez Canal opened and steam propulsion was replacing sail, clippers DOMINATED world trade. Although many were built, only one has survived more or less intact: CuttySark, now on display in Greenwich, southeast London.

• nevertheless
• election
• control
• inevitable

Which word is a synonym for INTACT in this sentence: From the 1840s until 1869, when the Suez Canal opened and steam propulsion was replacing sail, clippers dominated world trade. Although many were built, only one has survived more or less INTACT: CuttySark, now on display in Greenwich, southeast London.

• unbroken
• sculptor
• conscience
• tension

Which word is a synonym for ON DISPLAY  in this sentence: From the 1840s until 1869, when the Suez Canal opened and steam propulsion was replacing sail, clippers dominated world trade. Although many were built, only one has survived more or less intact: CuttySark, now ON DISPLAY in Greenwich, southeast London.

• on show
• novelty
• reinforce
• reinforce

Which word is a synonym for UNUSUAL  in this sentence: CuttySark's UNUSUAL name comes from the poem Tam O’Shanter by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

• uncommon
• discourse
• booming
• burial

Which word is a synonym for DEPICTED in this sentence: The witch is DEPICTED in CuttySark's figurehead – the carving of a woman typically at the front of old sailing ships.

• describe

• emancipate

• avenue

• edition

Which word is a synonym for LEGEND in this sentence: In LEGEND, and in Burns's poem, witches cannot cross water, so this was a rather strange choice of name for a ship.

• filter
• forefather
• fountain
• myth

Which word is a synonym for CONSTRUCTION in this sentence: To carry out CONSTRUCTION, Willis chose a new ship building firm, Scott & Linton, and ensured that the contract with them put him in a very strong position.

• deputy
• building
• spectacle
• popcorn