CEPT Practice C2 level open cloze test about Queen Victoria (1 minute to answer)

 

QUEEN VICTORIA 

Victoria first learned of her future role as a princess (0) during a history lesson when she was 10 years old. (1) .................................................... four decades later, Victoria's governess recalled that the future queen reacted to the discovery (2) ....................... declaring, "I will be good". This combination of earnestness and egotism marked Victoria (3) .................... a child of the age that bears her name. (4) .................... was an era of industrialisation and colonial expansion (5) ........................ had not happened before. By the end of her reign, about a third of the known world was (6) .................. her rule. (7) ............................. , the queen herself was resistant to technological change (8) ................................ while mechanical and technological innovation was reshaping the face of European civilization. (9) ................................... Significantly, Victoria was a queen determined to retain political power; yet she presided (10) ..................... the transformation of the sovereign's political role into a ceremonial (11) ......................... and thus helped to preserve the English monarchy. When Victoria became queen, the political role of the crown was by (12) ......................... means clear or defined; nor (13) ............................ the permanence of the throne (14) ............................. When she died, the change in the monarch's roles was one of social (15) ............................ than of political focus. 

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1. Over / Nearly / Almost

2. by

3. as

4. It

5. which

6. under

7. However

8. even

9. Most

10. over

11. one

12. no

13. was

14. itself

15. rather