EIKEN BUNTAN TEST Part8-Part14

Choose the correct words.

#8

fortress / ascertain / elusive / testament / metallurgy / outpost / demise / prerequisite

Mattingly suspects the ①____________ of the civilization was brought on by a shortage of water, ②____________ for any civilization.

①demise / ②prerequisite

#9

sporadically / adherents / proclamations / commemorates / constitutions / conglomerates / gets / has / makes

Many Americans wrongly assume that Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day, but it actually ③___________ nothing to do with proclamations or ④____________.

③has / ④constitutions

#10

ubiquitous / unearthed / scribes / fortification / earthwork / lucrative / buffer

The Viking settlement is in the same proximity as a ⑤ _____________ called the Danevirke, an imposing 30-kilometer-long defensive ⑥_____________ erected by Danes around 700 A.D.

⑤fortification / ⑥earthwork

#11

ostensibly / lavish / wound / knocked / fleshed / intriguing / complex / rituals

The bones are ⑦ _____________ the remains of a lavish feast held at the time to decommission the temple. Rituals at Ness either ⑧_____________ down or ceased after the feast.

⑦ostensibly / ⑧wound

#12

tentative/ erroneous / exclusive / conviction / hunch / mutation / compatible

While complimenting Schurr on his genetic profile of Altay people, Connie Mulligan, anthropologist from the University of Arizona, says that Schurr's conclusions are ⑨_____________ at best and quite possibly ⑩_____________.

⑨tentative / ⑩erroneous

#13

tantamount / chafe / quarried / confine / conjectured / repel

Mongolians would prefer to hang on to the name “the wall Genghis Kahn,” since conceding that it was once part of the Great Wall would be ⑪_____________ to admitting the region was once held by China, an idea they ⑫_____________ at.

⑪tantamount / ⑫chafe