Read the text below. For questions (23-32) 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 (23)____________ 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 - (24)____________ the eye of any stranger in the street and they'll smile and say hello.
The island was known (25)_____________ the Spanish but still uninhabited in 1609, when Sir George Somers ran aground on a sandbank in a storm and (26)__________? A; it for the Crown. The "pretty" town of St George's, which he founded, is the oldest English (27)__________ in the New World.
Pink is the island's "defining colour". It's a popular shade for the neatly pressed Bermuda shorts (28)_____________ 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, (29)____________ to grains of coral in the sand. (30)____________ 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, "(31)__________ of noises, sounds and sweet airs", Bermuda "thrums to the sound of birdsong (32)_________ dawn and twilight".
Read the text below. For questions (23-32) 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 (23)____________ 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 - (24)____________ the eye of any stranger in the street and they'll smile and say hello.
The island was known (25)_____________ the Spanish but still uninhabited in 1609, when Sir George Somers ran aground on a sandbank in a storm and (26)__________? A; it for the Crown. The "pretty" town of St George's, which he founded, is the oldest English (27)__________ in the New World.
Pink is the island's "defining colour". It's a popular shade for the neatly pressed Bermuda shorts (28)_____________ 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, (29)____________ to grains of coral in the sand. (30)____________ 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, "(31)__________ of noises, sounds and sweet airs", Bermuda "thrums to the sound of birdsong (32)_________ dawn and twilight".
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