CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH examinations / PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / 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.

Babylonian Astronomy

Although the Babylonians did not contribute to cosmology, their astronomy is of great interest because the (1) ... data they accumulated would later be of the (2) ... importance in the development of Greek geometric astronomy and cosmology. The (3) ... of Babylonian astronomy was preceded many centuries earlier by the appearance of a very advanced mathematics, documented in cuneiform clay tablets dating back to 1700 B.C. and earlier. This mathematics was based on a base-60 positional (4) ... system and contained solutions to quadratic (5) ... and algorithms to compute the square roots of numbers. Although there was some interest in geometry, the Babylonians (6) ... the arithmetic and algebraic parts of mathematics. There was during this older period, (7) ... development of astronomy in even its most (8) ... empirical form. It was only much later, beginning around 600 B.C. that a sophisticated numerical astronomy was cultivated.

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[answer="ASTRONOMICAL" label="ASTRONOMY"]

[answer="UTMOST" label="MOST"]

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

[answer="NUMERATION" label="NUMERATE"]

[answer="EQUATIONS" label="EQUATE"]

[answer="EMPHASIZED" label="EMPHASIS"]

[answer="INCOMPARABLE" label="COMPARE"]

[answer="RUDIMENTARY" label="RUDIMENTS"]

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