Task1
Read the text below. For questions (1-10) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
This Week's Dream
Most pubs in Bermuda have two TVs, one for cricket and one for baseball. In recent decades, American cultural (1)_______ over this little archipelago in the western Atlantic has been strong, but it remains a British Overseas Territory – the oldest of all. Bermuda is old-fashioned, democratic and very friendly – (2)_______ the eye of any stranger in the street and they'll smile and say hello. The island was known (3)_______ the Spanish but still uninhabited in 1609, when Sir George Somers ran aground on a sandbank in a storm and (4) _____ it for the Crown. The "pretty" town of St George's, which he founded, is the oldest English (5)_____ in the New World. Pink is the island's "defining colour". It's a popular shade for the neatly pressed Bermuda shorts (6)_____ by some locals (usually with a jacket and a tie). Many of the island's bungalows are pink, its buses are pink - and so are its beaches, (7)______ to grains of coral in the sand. (8)_______ Bermuda's other natural wonders are Crystal Cave – a cavern complex with stalagmites and stalactites – and its rich bird's life: like Prospero's isle, "(9)_____ of noises, sounds and sweet airs", Bermuda "thrums to the sound of birdsong (10)_____ dawn and twilight".
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