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

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  • The NEFF (New England Forestry Foundation) still needs to ________ £2.2 million to complete the capital campaign.
    raise
    promote
    lift
    elevate
  • With the ________ inner foyer, Hershey thumbed his nose even harder at the ravages of the Depression.
    bland
    dizzying
    gaudy
    dazzling
  • Valued in ________ of f3 million, the family's generous offer demonstrated their commitment to conserving the property.
    excess
    extra
    over
    profit
  • 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.
    magnified
    supported
    holed
    studded
  • The town has protected significant acreage at Long Lake Park and along the _______ of Long Lake across from the Prouty property.
    shore
    coast
    hem
    verge
  • Most of the new buildings were strikingly ________.
    impoverished
    opulent
    unattractive
    poor
  • He seems to have _________ no expense.
    spared
    allowed
    spent
    justified
  • Despite the continued _______ of those early town perks, it wasn't until the Depression that modern Hershey started to take shape.
    flexibility
    rigidity
    elasticity
    resilience
  • Hershey and delivered wages to more than 600 workers. He admitted that his ________, were partly selfish.
    intentions
    preoccupation
    pretentions
    objections
  • The 1,904-seat Venetian-style Hershey Community Theater has played _________ since 1933 to touring Broadway shows and to music, dance, and opera performances.
    housing
    homogeneously
    host
    hosting
  • ________ 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
  • In October 2003, NEFF _______ financing at a highly competitive rate and purchased the property.
    attached
    possessed
    tightened
    secured
  • Instead he _________ a massive building boom that gave rise to the most visited buildings in today's Hershey.
    funded
    stocked
    trusted
    accounted
  • The town has purchased a conservation restriction on 85 acres of Prouty Woods Community Forest, further increasing the conservation ________ of this property.
    fee
    value
    prize
    treasure
  • ln 2002, Donald Prouty, former Littleton town Moderator and town counsel ________ .
    passed off
    passed away
    gave over
    gave away
  • The Prouty family generously agreed to a bargain sale price in order to preserve the property and avoid a likely ________ war among developers.
    bidding
    letting
    summoning
    proposing
  • Hershey was perhaps the only town in the country actually to _______ during the 1930s.
    get on
    flower
    prosper
    decline
  • Landvest recognized the opportunity to protect a significant tract of forestland within the rapidly _______ U.S. Route 495 corridor,
    devising
    developing
    deviating
    deriving
  • NEFF now provides public _______ throughout the property and educational opportunities at the William A. King Education Center.
    acclaim
    access
    entrant
    passage
  • 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.
    frightfully
    inappropriately
    aptly
    seemingly