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Test 5: Museums and cultural heritage

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An advanced mixed test about museums, collections and heritage: collocation, inversion, relative clauses and word formation.

Part 1: Multiple-choice gaps

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

  1. The museum's oldest galleries have ___ a major restoration.
    • a) undertaken
    • b) undergone
    • c) undermined
    • d) underlined
  2. Visitors are invited to ___ their own conclusions about the objects.
    • a) draw
    • b) do
    • c) pull
    • d) pick
  3. The curators were careful not to ___ any particular interpretation on visitors.
    • a) oppose
    • b) propose
    • c) impose
    • d) expose
  4. Many artefacts were acquired under ___ circumstances, and their ownership is now disputed.
    • a) questioning
    • b) questionable
    • c) questioned
    • d) queried
  5. The curved glass walls of the new wing are ___ of a ship's hull.
    • a) remindful
    • b) recollective
    • c) memorial
    • d) reminiscent
  6. Funding for small regional museums has been ___ in recent years.
    • a) evaded
    • b) eluded
    • c) erased
    • d) eroded
  7. Had the roof not been repaired last winter, the collection ___ irreparably damaged in the storms that followed.
    • a) would have been
    • b) would be
    • c) had been
    • d) will have been
  8. ___ to depict the museum's founder, the portrait hangs in the entrance hall.
    • a) Thinking
    • b) Thought
    • c) Think
    • d) Having thought

Part 2: Open gaps

Type one word in each gap.

  1. Not until the 1990s ___ the site opened to the public.
  2. The collection, parts ___ which date from the Bronze Age, is on loan.
  3. So great ___ the demand for tickets that the exhibition was extended.
  4. Entry is free, ___ donations are welcome.
  5. The museum cannot afford to buy the painting, ___ much it would like to.
  6. Visitors are requested not to touch the exhibits, ___ matter how tempting.
  7. The restoration took twice as long ___ anyone had expected.
  8. She devoted her life ___ preserving the traditions of the region.

Part 3: Word formation

Use the word in CAPITALS at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits the gap. Type one word.

  1. The painting's ___ was confirmed by laboratory analysis. (AUTHENTIC)
  2. Several treasures were ___ removed from the site by looters last century. (LEGAL)
  3. Visitors found the exhibition both ___ and thought-provoking. (INFORM)
  4. The curator spoke with great ___ about the collection. (ENTHUSE)
  5. The museum's ___ policy allows free entry on Sundays. (INCLUDE)
  6. The decision to build on the site was widely seen as ___, and protests soon followed. (ACCEPT)
  7. A ___ large number of manuscripts survive in private collections. (SURPRISE)
  8. Local volunteers have been ___ in protecting the site from erosion. (INSTRUMENT)

Answer key

Part 1: Multiple-choice gaps

  1. b) undergoneUndergo means to experience something. The galleries are the thing being restored, so undertaken does not fit.
  2. a) drawThe collocation is draw a conclusion.
  3. c) imposeImpose something on someone means to force it on them.
  4. b) questionableQuestionable means doubtful or open to criticism.
  5. d) reminiscentBe reminiscent of means to make you think of something else.
  6. d) erodedFunding is eroded when it is gradually reduced.
  7. a) would have beenThe inverted third conditional (Had ... not been) refers to a past result here (in the storms that followed), so we need would have been.
  8. b) ThoughtA reduced passive clause, Thought to depict, means which is thought to depict.

Part 2: Open gaps

  1. wasNot until at the start of a sentence requires inversion: was the site opened.
  2. ofParts of which is a relative clause with a partitive structure.
  3. wasSo great at the start is followed by inversion: was the demand.
  4. but / although / though / yet / and / while / whilstAny of these links the two ideas sensibly; but, although, though, yet, while and whilst add a slight contrast.
  5. howeverHowever much expresses concession: no matter how much it would like to. As would need two words here (as much as).
  6. noNo matter how + adjective means however.
  7. asA multiplier such as twice is followed by as + adjective + as: twice as long as.
  8. toDevote something to + -ing: devoted her life to preserving.

Part 3: Word formation

  1. authenticityThe noun from authentic is authenticity.
  2. illegallyWe need a negative adverb modifying removed: illegally.
  3. informativeThe adjective informative matches thought-provoking after both ... and.
  4. enthusiasmAfter great we need a noun: enthusiasm.
  5. inclusive / inclusionBefore the noun policy we need an adjective: inclusive. The noun inclusion can also be used before policy.
  6. unacceptableThe adjective needs a negative sense after seen as: unacceptable.
  7. surprisinglyBefore the adjective large we need an adverb: surprisingly.
  8. instrumentalBe instrumental in means to play an important part in something.

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