Test Inglés B2 intensivo

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Mañanas

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Ciudad

El Puerto de Santa María

San Fernando

Puerto Real

6.) The landscape of the world is never....but changes from year to year.

fixed

solid

firm

steady

7.) While some of these changes are caused by human..........., most of them are natural.

work

contribution

activity

practice

8.) Snow and ice, for example, have a considerable.................on the environment in the northern hemisphere.

development

impact

consequence

power

9.) An ever-present problem in areas that........harsh winters is the possibility of water pipes freezing.

experience

contain

receive

bear

10.) When they do, they crack and......because of the expansion of the ice inside.

rip

peel

tear

split

11.) Exactly the same thing happens in nature. On icy mountains, water.......into cracks in exposed rocks and when it freezes, the water turns into ice.

runs

slides

dashes

slips

12.) The pressure of the ice............the cracks, breaking the rocks apart.

prolongs

explodes

widens

swells

13.) As a direct result of this.......action, broken blocks of stone can often be seen sloping downwards from high mountain peaks.

destructive

hurtful

disorderly

rebellious

14.) A similar process brings stones to the surface of the soil. Water beneath a buried stone freezes more easily than water in the......soil because the stone absorbs heat more quickly.

bordering

enclosing

surrounding

circulating

15.) Ice.........beneath the stone expands and brings the stone upwards.

creating

establishing

producing

forming

16.) In permanently cold regions, the whole soil surface is raised and the stones that have been................to the surface lie in lines on the soil, making a ridged pattern.

stirred

removed

squashed

pushed

17.) Most artists who create three-dimensional objects, rather than paintings or drawings,.................use of materials like stone or metal in their work.

put

make

get

take

18.) An exhibition has just opened at the Bowes Museum in England, however, where re-creations of sculptures carved from a very different material, sugar, are on........... .

presentation

display

viewing

sight

19.) To understand the...........of this art form, you must go back 500 years, to a time when sugar was very rare and was available only to the very wealthy.

development

outcome

arrangement

circumstance

20.) In those days, it became popular for rich Europeans to show............their wealth by decorating their dining tables with elaborate sugar sculptures to impress their guests on special occasions.

off

out

up

in

21.) The finest artists were employed to.............on these sculptures, which reflected the host's good taste and position in society.

carry

try

build

work

22.) Although expensively decorated tables.........popular into the 19th century, the idea then went out of fashion and was largely forgotten.

rested

continued

remained

persisted

23.) This was partly because sugar sculptures only.......for a limited time - around 100 years at most - so eventually there were none in existence.

driving

flying

running

sailing

24.) The Bowes Museum has recently.............a collection of the wooden tools used in the production of sugar sculptures, together with some original designs, in an attempt to recreate the forgotten art form.

acquired

earned

realised

paid

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