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.
Disneyland
Disneyland Park was arguably Walt Disney's riskiest venture. It was developed | |
on a shoestring budget and made possible only through Disney's relationship with | |
ABC Television and a (1) ... of brave corporate sponsors. The capital available | HAND |
was barely (2) ... to acquire the property and build the park; nothing was left over | SUFFICIENCY |
for the development of hotels or the (3) ... and improvement of property adjoining | ACQUIRE |
the park. Even the Disneyland Hotel, connected to the theme park by monorail, | |
was owned and operated by a third party until 1989. Disneyland's success spawned | |
a wave of development that (4) ... surrounded the theme park with whimsically | RAPID |
themed mom-and-pop motels, souvenir stands, and fast –food restaurants. Disney, | |
still deep in debt, looked on in abject shock, (5) ... to intervene. In fact, the Disneyland | POWER |
experience was etched so deeply into the Disney corporate (6) ... that Walt purchased | CONSCIOUS |
27,500 acres and established an (7) ... development district in Florida (uncountable to | AUTONOMY |
any local or county authority) when he was ready to launch Disney World. Though the | |
Florida project gave Disney the opportunity to develop a destination resort in a | |
totally controlled environment, the steady decline of the area (8) ... Disneyland | CIRCLE |
continued to rankle Walt |
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[answer="HANDFUL" label="HAND"]
[answer="SUFFICIENT" label="SUFFICIENCY"]
[answer="ACQUISITION" label="ACQUIRE"]
[answer="RAPIDLY" label="RAPID"]
[answer="POWERLESS" label="POWER"]
[answer=" CONSCIOUSNESS" label="CONSCIOUS"]
[answer="AUTONOMOUS" label="AUTONOMY"]
[answer="ENCIRCLING" label="CIRCLE"]
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ANSWER KEYS
1) HANDFUL
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | HAND => HANDFUL |
SUFFIX (-FUL) a suffix meaning "full of," "characterized by", "tending to," "able to": SHAMEFUL |
2) SUFFICIENT
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | SUFFICIENCY => SUFFICIENT |
SUFFIX (-ENT) A suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: DIFFERENT |
3) ACQUISITION
VERB TO NOUN | ACQUIRE => ACQUISITION |
SUFFIX (-TION) a suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs or stems not identical with verbs, whether as expressing action or state: RELATION |
4) RAPIDLY
ADJECTIVE TO ADVERB | RAPID => RAPIDLY |
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY |
5) POWERLESS
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | POWER => POWERLESS |
SUFFIX (-LESS) An adjective suffix meaning "without" and in adjectives derived from verbs, indicating failure or inability to perform or be performed: CHILDLESS |
6) CONSCIOUSNESS
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | CONSCIOUS => CONSCIOUSNESS |
SUFFIX (-NESS) A native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state: DARKNESS |
7) AUTONOMOUS
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | AUTONOMY => AUTONOMOUS |
SUFFIX (-OUS) A suffix forming adjectives having, full of, or characterized by: SPACIOUS |
8) ENCIRCLING
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | CIRCLE =>ENCIRCLING |
PREFIX (EN-) + (ING) A prefix occurring originally in loanwords from French, forming verbs with the general sense "to cause (a person or thing) to be in" the place, condition, or state : ENSLAVE |