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.

China

 

To the average (1) ..., China has always been, ever since Marco Polo, a very (2) ... and fascinating country. The cloud of mystery which began to be dispelled after the (3) ... opening of China in the nineteenth century descended once again with the (4) ... of the Communist regime. Now the cloud is thinning once more, and there is a surge of interest in China to be felt not only in Europe and America but in almost every country in the world. Although the West has influenced modern China, that nation cannot be understood without (5) ... to all the major phases of its long past. We are here dealing with the (6) ... of a proud and largely self-sufficient civilization. The attitudes of Chinese alive today are, to an (7) ... degree, rooted in a history consciously present to their minds. Chinese history is not the oldest in the world. We have records of developed civilisations in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates-Tigris, and even Indus which are older than that of the Yellow River. But peoples and (8) ... have changed out of all recognition in those other centres of early civilisation.

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[answer="WESTERNER" label="WEST"]

[answer="MYSTERIOUS" label="MYSTERY"]

[answer="FORCIBLE" label="FORCE"]

[answer="EMERGENCE" label="EMERGE"]

[answer="REFERENCE" label="REFER"]

[answer="EVOLUTION" label="EVOLVE"]

[answer="UNUSUAL" label="USUAL"]

[answer="LANGUAGE" label="LINGUAL"]

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