Use of English

Task 3

• You are going to read an article about the history of the Statue of Liberty.

Some words are missing from the text.

• Use the words in brackets to form the words that fit in the gaps (21-28).

• Then write the appropriate form of these words on the dotted lines after the text.

• There might be cases when you do not have to change the word in brackets.

• Use only one word for each gap.

• There is an example (0) at the beginning.

 THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY

On July 4, 1884 France presented the United States with an (0) ______ (credible)

birthday gift: the Statue of Liberty! The statue standing in New York Harbor has welcomed

(21) ______ (visit), immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship for more than a

century. It’s a (22) ______ (universe) symbol of freedom and democracy.

It started one night near Paris in 1865. A group of Frenchmen were discussing their dictator-
like emperor and the democratic (23) ______ (govern) of the U.S. They decided to build a

monument to American freedom – and strengthen French demands for democracy in their

own country. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, the (24) ______ (fame) sculptor, was there. He

imagined a statue of a woman holding a torch burning with the light of freedom.

Turning Bartholdi’s idea into (25) ______ (real) took 21 years. Americans paid for the

pedestal and French (26) ______ (support) raised money to build the statue. It was built in

France, presented to the U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean and rebuilt in the

U.S. It was (27) ______ (final) dedicated on October 28, 1886.

At that time the statue was the tallest structure in the U.S. (28) ______ (tour) climb 354 steps

to look out from 25 windows in the crown. The seven rays in the crown represent the Earth’s

seven seas.

(www.nationalgeographic/kids.com)



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This is the end of this part of the exam.