First essentials test 8

In the Middle Ages the (0) ........ majority of European cities had walls around them.

• huge

• vast

• large

• immense

The walls (1) ........ to defend the city, but they also kept out undesirable people,

• supposed

• served

• expected

• meant

The walls also kept out undesirable people, like those

with contagious (2) .........

• injuries

• symptoms

• wounds

• diseases

Most of London's gates had been (3) ........ by the end of the eighteenth century.

• devoted

• demolished

• deleted

• decreased

However, by a (4 )........ of luck, the last of them was preserved.

• stroke

• wave

• hit

• blow

This gate is, in (5)........ fact, not called a gate at all;

• real

• current

• actual

• definite

its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (6)........ between the old City of London and Westminster.

• division

• part

• line

• boundary

However, as the (7)........ of traffic through London increased, Temple Bar became an obstacle to its free flow.

• bulk

• quantity

• amount

• number

In 1878 it was decided to take it down, so its stones were numbered, dismantled and put in (8).........

• storage

• store

• storeroom

• stock

Illiteracy is the condition (0) (a)   being unable to read and write.