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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 Tower

 

Eastward of London Bridge, on the bank of the Thames, stands the Tower, which was in ancient times a royal palace, and (1) … inhabited by the British sovereigns from the Norman conquest to the time of Queen Elizabeth. Though tradition ascribes the original (2) ... of a fortress on this spot to Julius Caesar, and in (3) ... one of the towers has been called Caesar's Tower, there is no ground for believing that this Roman general ever advanced so far into the island. The tower just mentioned, called also the White Tower, the most ancient part of the present fortress, was erected about the year 1078, by command of William the Conqueror, to secure the obedience of the Londoners. (4) ... additions were made by his (5) ... ; and in 1190, the Bishop of Ely, Chancellor of England, who was left at the head of the regency during the absence of Richard I. in Palestine, surrounded the fortress with an (6) ... wall of stone and a broad deep ditch. Henry III. repaired, (7) ... , and whitened the quadrangular tower erected by the Conqueror, on which occasion probably it received the name of the White Tower, and added a stone gate and bulwark, with other buildings, to the west (8) .... .

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[answer="OCCASIONALLY" label="OCCASION"]

[answer="FOUNDATION" label="FOUND"]

[answer="CONSEQUENCE" label="CONSEQUENT"]

[answer="CONSIDERABLE" label="CONSIDER"]

[answer="SUCCESSORS" label="SUCCEEED"]

[answer=" EMBATTLED" label="BATTLE"]

[answer="STRENGTHENED" label="STRONG"]

[answer="ENTRANCE" label="ENTER"]

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