C For questions 1-15, read the text below and fill in the gaps with one word. The 20th century has witnessed many spectacular technological developments, but nowhere more so than in transport. Up until the 1820`s when the steam engine was invented, transport on land 1) __ on human or animal 2) __, and its efficiency depended on the development of a decent road 3) __. Similarly, sea travel depended upon muscle 4) __ and unpredictable winds. The 19th century relied 5) __ on steam to power trains and boats, and these were used for the 6) __ of both goods and passengers, but it wasn`t until the invention of the motor car that road transportation 7) __ important once again. But of course, the most important 8) __ has been in air transport. The speed at which people can travel across vast 9) __ of the planet has not only greatly 10) __ the number of kilometers the average person travels in a lifetime, but has also changed the 11) __ in which people view the world. It is now a much 12) __ place than it must have appeared in the 13) __ of sail and steam. Indeed, when we consider that while once it 14) __ almost six months to sail from London to Sydney, you now need 24 hours by air, we can marvel at the advances 15) __ in modern forms of transport.
1 A relied B based C fixed D supported
2 A muscle B ability C strength D force
3 A structure B diagram C plan D system
4 A energy B drive C vigour D power
5 A hardly B strongly C heavily D seriously
6 A movement B passage C motion D bringing
7 A became B seemed C came D started
8 A gain B breakthrough C discovery D break
9 A places B portions C bits D areas
10 A enlarged B advanced C increased D expanded
11 A way B manner C aspect D point
12 A lesser B smaller C tinier D shorter
13 A course B term C era D season
14 A wanted B spent C took D was
15 A done B managed C happened D made
