CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / word formation
For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
In the world of the late twentieth century, events on one continent (1) ... influence developments on the others, for good or for ill. In the broad expanse of (2) … time, however, these (3) ... connections developed quite recently, starting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In one sense, the process began with Christopher Columbus's four voyages, the first (4) ... excursions to have
far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. In another sense, however, Columbus's voyages were less a beginning than the (5) ... of a centuries-old human process of (6) ... and migration. When Columbus was born , Europe, Africa, and Asia were each part of the Old World of the Easter Hemisphere, but they were also separate worlds culturally, (7) ... and politically. Columbus’s voyages shattered that (8) ... once and for all, in what is arguably the most fateful encounter between disparate human groups that history has ever known.
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[answer="ROUTINELY" label="ROUTINE"]
[answer="HISTORICAL" label="HISTORY"]
[answer="EXTENSIVE" label="EXTEND"]
[answer="TRANSATLANTIC" label="ATLANTIC"]
[answer="CONTINUATION" label="CONTINUE"]
[answer="EXPLORATION" label="EXPLORE"]
[answer="RELIGIOUSLY" label="RELIGION"]
[answer="ISOLATION" label="ISOLATE"]
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ANSWER KEYS
NOUN TO ADVERB | ROUTINE => ROUTINELY |
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY |
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | HISTORY => HISTORICAL |
HISTORIC is often confused with HISTORICAL. HISTORIC means something important or influential in history. HISTORICAL, on the other hand, refers to anything from the past, important or not. |
VERB TO ADJECTIVE | EXTEND => EXTENSIVE |
SUFFIX (-IVE) A suffix of adjectives expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: DESTRUCTIVE |
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | ATLANTIC => TRANSATLANTIC |
PREFIX(TRANS-) A prefix denoting across, beyond, crossing, on the other side: TRANSOCEANIC |
VERB TO NOUN | CONTINUE => CONTINUATION |
SUFFIX (-ATION) A suffix forming nouns of action: RECOMMENDATION |
VERB TO NOUN | EXPLORE => EXPLORATION |
SUFFIX (-TION) A suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs or stems not identical with verbs: STARVATION |
NOUN TO ADVERB | RELIGION => RELIGIOUSLY |
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY |
VERB TO NOUN | ISOLATE => ISOLATION |
SUFFIX (-TION) A suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs or stems not identical with verbs: STARVATION |