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.

Discovery of Australia

Three European nations—Holland, Britain, and France—took the (1) ... role in the discovery of the Australian continent with two others, Portugal and Spain, making pioneering voyages. Whether or not the Portuguese actually sailed in Australian waters, (2) ... the continent, perhaps even landing on its shores, is not (3) ... proven although, on balance, the weight of
probability suggests that they may claim (4) ... of discovery. But the late-15th- and early-16th-century surge of maritime (5) ... that took their caravels across the Equator, round the southern tip of Africa, into the Indian Ocean, to (6) ... trading factories along the Indian coast, in Malaysia,
and to present-day Indonesia, in fact to within less than 300 miles of the Australian coast, is well documented. It stretches the bounds of (7) ... , the argument runs, that Portuguese mariners who had advanced halfway round the world in search of treasure and spices, and to reach Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and the East Indonesian archipelago, where they almost certainly
picked up local knowledge of a southern continent, should not sail the extra 300 miles to satisfy their curiosity and to discover its trading (8) ... .

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[answer="PREPONDERANT" label="PREPONDERATE"]

[answer="SIGHTING" label="SEE"]

[answer="CONCLUSIVELY" label="CONCLUDE "]

[answer="PRIORITY" label="PRIOR"]

[answer="EXPANSION" label="EXPAND"]

[answer="ESTABLISH" label="STABLE"]

[answer="CREDIBILITY" label="CREDIBLE"]

[answer="POTENTIAL" label="POTENCY"]

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