CAE exam essentials 1 test 2

Archaeology is a messy ( 0 ) ........ . There's no getting away from it

• situation

• business

• function

• case

There 's no getting away from it; digging holes in the ground is an (1) ........ part of archaeological work. But there is a new way to search without a shovel.

• inflexible

• inevitable

• inclusive

• infallible

Satellite images are now used to (2) ........ buried objects in landscapes with

• disclose

• conceive

• define

• identify

These are being used to find buried objects in landscapes with astonishing (3) .........

• attention

• measurement

• precision

• adjustment

In the same way that medical (4) .......... let doctors examine parts of the body they couldn't otherwise see, satellite images help scientists find and map long-lost rivers,

• scans

• looks

• regards

• sights

satellite images help scientists find and map long-lost rivers, roads and cities, and make (5) ........ archaeological features in places which are very difficult to survey from the ground.

• through

• out

• for

• up

There's much we miss on the ground,' emphasises archaeologist Sarah Parcak, a (6) ........ in using satellite imagery.

• creator

• principal

• chief

• pioneer

Through 'thousands of hours' of trial and (7) ........,

• failure

• mistake

• error

• fault

Parcak has developed techniques using satellite imagery which allow her to detect (8) ........ changes in the surface of the land caused by objects like bricks buried underground. In 2011, her team discovered evidence of hundreds of dwellings at the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis near the River Nile delta in Egypt. This might have taken a century using traditional methods

• subtle

• thin

• mild

• soft

Do people need words in (0) ........ to think?