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.
Windsor Castle
Standing at the very heart of the British national identity, Windsor is the | |
oldest and largest castle in Britain and, with 1,000 rooms, the largest | |
occupied castle in the world. The present queen, Elisabeth II, spent | |
much of her childhood here, so it is not surprising that her publie felt | |
her pain when a devastating fire (1) ... destroyed 100 rooms in the | PART |
state and private apartments in 1992, her annus horribilis. A | |
magnificent $53 million (2) ... completed in 1997 employed a beehive of | RESTORE |
(3) ... using the same techniques as when the castle was begun under | ART |
William the Conqueror, 900 years ago. It has been lived in by eight | |
(4) ... royal houses since then. In 1916, King George V assumed the | SUCCESS |
name of the place out of fondness – and to (5) ... the royal family from | ASSOCIATE |
its Germanic origins. Highlights of a trip to Windsor Castle include the | |
Changing of the Guards, which takes place even when the queen is not | |
in (6) ... ; the Queen Mary's Doll House, an exquisite gift in miniature | RESIDE |
designed in 1923 by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens; and the 16th-century (7) ... | ARCHITECT |
jewel of St. George's Chapel which, together with Westminster Abbey, | |
shares the (8) ... of being a pantheon of many English monarchs. | DISTINCT |
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[answer="PARTIALLY" label="PART"]
[answer="RESTORATION" label="RESTORE"]
[answer="ARTISANS" label="ART"]
[answer="SUCCESSIVE" label="SUCCESS"]
[answer="DISASSOCIATE" label="ASSOCIATE"]
[answer=" RESIDENCE" label="RESIDE"]
[answer="ARCHITECTURAL" label="ARCHITECTURE"]
[answer="DISTINCTION" label="DISTINCT"]
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ANSWER KEYS
1) PARTIALLY
NOUN TO ADVERB | PART => PARTIALLY |
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY |
2) RESTORATION
VERB TO NOUN | RESTORE => RESTORATION |
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 a state, or associated meanings: STARVATION |
3) ARTISANS
NOUN TO NOUN | ART => ARTISANS |
SUFFIX (ART + ISAN) From Latin artitus, past participle of artire "to instruct in the arts," from ars (genitive artis) "art": ARTISAN |
4) SUCCESSIVE
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | SUCCESS => SUCCESSIVE |
SUFFIX (-IVE) A suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: DESTRUCTIVE |
5) DISASSOCIATE
VERB TO VERB | ASSOCIATE => DISASSOCIATE |
PREFIX (DIS-) Indicating negation, lack, or deprivation: DISGRACE |
6) RESIDENCE
VERB TO NOUN | RESIDE => RESIDENCE |
SUFFIX (ENCE) A noun suffix equivalent to -ance, corresponding to the suffix -ent in adjectives:: DIFFERENCE |
7) ARCHITECTURAL
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | ARCHITECTURE => ARCHITECTURAL |
SUFFIX (-AL) Of; related to; connected with: FUNCTIONAL |
8) DISTINCTION
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | DISTINCT => DISTINCTION |
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 a state, or associated meanings: STARVATION |