Share C1 Reading and Use of English Part 1 (Game 5)
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Slavery was not the only _______ of life in New Orleans that would have been unfamiliar to men like Captain Amos Stoddard.
position
view
look
aspect
Captain Amos Stoddard, a New Englander became one of the _______ of the new lands.
many
governers
numbers
slave traders
Stoddard might have been ________ by the odd cultural mix that New Orleans represented.
humoured
interested
perplexed
frightened
New Orleans still _________ in some forms, its odd cultural mix to this day.
relinquishes
retains
refrains
replaces
French immigrants came in from Francophone ________ like San Domingue.
pasts
colonies
continents
industries
As a further _______ of the territory's past governments, the Louisiana State Legislature met in the former palace of the Spanish governors,
reference
reminder
plunder
examination
In what might _______ readers today as a particularly chilling reminder of the city's previous masters, two pillories stood on Chartres Street.
present
strike
instill
inspire
Thomas Jefferson, the American President, purchased Louisiana and brought about the _______ of control that occurred on December 20.
transaction
transfer
hand-over
ownership
The Louisiana Purchase opened a new ________ in American history and closed the old one.
paragraph
piece
chapter
book
Only a few years before, he had rejected a proposal for a national bank by _______ that the Constitution didn't empower the US. government to create such an institution.
arguing
demanding
registering
bickering
Many separate fires ______ in the humus of the forest floor.
sank
extinguished
smouldered
engulfed
Smoke sometimes ______ the sun, which was often visible only at midday.
burnt
exposed
illuminated
obscured
0n September 30, flames came within three miles of the town of Green Bay, _________, 1,200 cords of wood stored at a charcoal kiln.
consuming
licking
damaging
avoiding
The settlements in the area were becoming increasingly _______ from both the outside world and one another.
lonely
isolated
frightened
inundated
The fires seemed to wax and wane, _______ on the wind and chance.
waiting
independent
depending
from
0n September 30 the Marinette reported hopefully that "the fires have nearly _______ now in this vicinity."
increased
diminished
died out
flared
