Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 11 - Test 2 - Passage 02

Which word is a synonym for ancient in this sentence:

Easter Island, or Rapu Nui as it is known locally, is home to several hundred ancient human statues - the moai.

• very texture

• very eager

• very old

• very great

Which word is a synonym for remote in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

• delicate

• distant

• displace

• democracy

Which word is a synonym for settle in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

• set up home

• do again

• pull

• vary

Which word is a synonym for isolated in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

• infertile

• equivalent

• remote

• undisciplined

Which word is a synonym for platform in this sentence:

The moai were carved with stone tools, then transported for many kilometres, without the use of animals or wheels, to massive stone platforms.

• stage

• terrain

• crew

• craft

Which word is a synonym for stranded in this sentence:

Bestselling Swiss author Erich von Daniken believed they were built by stranded extraterrestrials.

• establish

• unidentified

• stuck

• collaborative

Which word is a synonym for definitively in this sentence:

Modern science - linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence - has definitively proved the moai builders were Polynesians, but not how they moved their creations.

• perfectly

• entirely

• unlikely

• highly

Which word is a synonym for folklore in this sentence:

Local folklore maintains that the statues walked, while researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropes and logs.

• trigger

• element

• legends

• inform

Which word is a synonym for drag in this sentence:

Local folklore maintains that the statues walked, while researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropes and logs.

• solve

• coined

• dedicated

• pull

Which word is a synonym for descendant in this sentence:

US scientist Jared Diamond believes that the Rapanui people - descendants of Polynesian settlers - wrecked their own environment.

• shading

• appealing

• offspring

• entering