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.
view
aspect
look
position
Captain Amos Stoddard, a New Englander became one of the _______ of the new lands.
numbers
governers
many
slave traders
Stoddard might have been ________ by the odd cultural mix that New Orleans represented.
perplexed
interested
humoured
frightened
New Orleans still _________ in some forms, its odd cultural mix to this day.
retains
refrains
relinquishes
replaces
French immigrants came in from Francophone ________ like San Domingue.
pasts
continents
industries
colonies
As a further _______ of the territory's past governments, the Louisiana State Legislature met in the former palace of the Spanish governors,
reminder
examination
plunder
reference
In what might _______ readers today as a particularly chilling reminder of the city's previous masters, two pillories stood on Chartres Street.
inspire
strike
present
instill
Thomas Jefferson, the American President, purchased Louisiana and brought about the _______ of control that occurred on December 20.
transfer
ownership
hand-over
transaction
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.
registering
demanding
arguing
bickering
Many separate fires ______ in the humus of the forest floor.
smouldered
extinguished
engulfed
sank
Smoke sometimes ______ the sun, which was often visible only at midday.
illuminated
exposed
burnt
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.
avoiding
consuming
licking
damaging
The settlements in the area were becoming increasingly _______ from both the outside world and one another.
inundated
isolated
frightened
lonely
The fires seemed to wax and wane, _______ on the wind and chance.
from
independent
waiting
depending
0n September 30 the Marinette reported hopefully that "the fires have nearly _______ now in this vicinity."
increased
died out
flared
diminished
