C1 Reading and Use of English Part 1 (Game 4) | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

The arched ceiling is tiled in gold, the tire curtain bears a painting of Venice, and the ceiling is ________ with 88 tiny lightbulbs to recreate a starlit night.

studded

holed

supported

magnified

With the ________ inner foyer, Hershey thumbed his nose even harder at the ravages of the Depression.

dazzling

dizzying

gaudy

bland

The floors in the _______ named Grand Lobby are polished Italian lava rock, surrounded by marble walls and capped with a has-relief ceiling showing sheaves of wheat, beehives, and swans.

aptly

inappropriately

seemingly

frightfully

The 1,904-seat Venetian-style Hershey Community Theater has played _________ since 1933 to touring Broadway shows and to music, dance, and opera performances.

host

hosting

housing

homogeneously

Most of the new buildings were strikingly ________.

opulent

impoverished

unattractive

poor

He seems to have _________ no expense.

spared

spent

allowed

justified

Hershey and delivered wages to more than 600 workers. He admitted that his ________, were partly selfish.

intentions

pretentions

objections

preoccupation

Instead he _________ a massive building boom that gave rise to the most visited buildings in today's Hershey.

funded

trusted

accounted

stocked

Hershey was perhaps the only town in the country actually to _______ during the 1930s.

prosper

decline

get on

flower

Despite the continued _______ of those early town perks, it wasn't until the Depression that modern Hershey started to take shape.

resilience

flexibility

rigidity

elasticity

The town has purchased a conservation restriction on 85 acres of Prouty Woods Community Forest, further increasing the conservation ________ of this property.

value

fee

prize

treasure

The town has protected significant acreage at Long Lake Park and along the _______ of Long Lake across from the Prouty property.

shore

coast

verge

hem

________ from Fay Park to Long Lake, the 107-acre Prouty property is a truly unique and significant tract of woodland within minutes of Route 495.

Stretching

Swelling

Pushing

Multiplying

NEFF now provides public _______ throughout the property and educational opportunities at the William A. King Education Center.

access

passage

acclaim

entrant

In October 2003, NEFF _______ financing at a highly competitive rate and purchased the property.

secured

attached

tightened

possessed

Valued in ________ of f3 million, the family's generous offer demonstrated their commitment to conserving the property.

excess

extra

over

profit

The Prouty family generously agreed to a bargain sale price in order to preserve the property and avoid a likely ________ war among developers.

bidding

proposing

letting

summoning

Landvest recognized the opportunity to protect a significant tract of forestland within the rapidly _______ U.S. Route 495 corridor,

developing

devising

deriving

deviating

ln 2002, Donald Prouty, former Littleton town Moderator and town counsel ________ .

passed away

gave away

passed off

gave over

The NEFF (New England Forestry Foundation) still needs to ________ £2.2 million to complete the capital campaign.

raise

lift

elevate

promote