B2 Use of English Test 13 – multiple choice gaps

Old skills: new products

If ancient skills which have been (1)…………… down from generation to generation are going to survive, then we must find new uses for them. A good example is the cloth (2)…………… as Harris tweed, which is produced on an island off the northwest coast of Scotland. A few years ago, there was only one full-time weaver of the cloth left on the island. It was all that (3)…………… of an industry that once employed a large (4)…………… of local people.

But local producers are now providing material for use in a (5)…………… of fashionable handbags, hats and furnishings. This (6)…………… in the fortunes of the industry all started way (7)…………… in 2004, when a sample of Harris tweed was sent to Nike, the sportswear manufacturer. The company decided to use the material on a trainer called ‘The Terminator’ to demonstrate how (8)…………… a traditional material can be incorporated into a modern product. This (9)…………… to a large order for cloth, which involved lots of people on the island rediscovering the ancient skill of weaving.

1   A   handed           B   brought         C   carried          D   taken

2   A   seen                B   referred         C   known          D   regarded

3   A   remained       B   recalled          C   resumed      D   repeated

4   A   extent             B   number         C   degree          D   amount

5   A   range              B   choice            C   mixture        D   pick

6   A   turn                B   change           C   switch           D   move

7   A   ago                 B   past                C   back              D   since

8   A   effectively     B   especially       C   actually        D   certainly

9   A   followed        B   resulted         C   caused         D   led