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Kendal mint cake has been called the world’s first energy bar. The sugar __________ is particularly useful at high altitudes, where the body needs sugar and finds other types of food hard to digest. The strong mint flavour is also appropriate, as high altitudes dull taste buds. Kendal mint cake isn’t for everyone. It’s intensely minty — to the point that you’ll continue to taste the herb well after you’ve swallowed the cake.

1. context
2. content
3. contest
4. contempt

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Because there was no written _____________ of the village history, the stories of the griots became the history and the only record of past events.

1. documentation
2. diary
3. record
4. report

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The Nile River also provided a lot of building materials for the Ancient Egyptians. They used the mud from the riverbanks to _______________ sundried bricks. These bricks were used in building homes, walls, and other buildings.

1. do
2. make
3. take
4. spend

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One common — and somewhat scary — name for baby fish is fry. Do we call young fish fry because we’re looking _______________ to cooking them for dinner? Not quite!

1. forward
2. for
3. through
4. after

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It will help ____________________ your mind off the issues in your life which has been stressing you out.

1. cut
2. take
3. make
4. do

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“Billions of people started using it to exchange quick messages, whereas before they would have had to _____________ a phone call,” he said.

1. turn
2. do
3. take
4. make

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Although they’ve experienced what some would call «ordeals,» they seem unfazed: «During the winter, I got stuck in the ice,» says Soudée. «All you want is for someone to find you. There are even moments I would give my boat, I would pay with my whole life to ____________ out of there. But then the next day, the sun comes back, the wind has calmed, and life begins again.»

1. cut
2. get
3. come
4. give

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«That,» said Mr. Pyne, «is where I come in. I do know what to do! I am a specialist in every kind of human ___________________.»
«Oh, I say — bit of a tall order, that!»

1. problem
2. worry
3. trouble
4. accident

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As of today, Sophia does not yet have an ___________ of herself or the world around her.

1. experience
2. information
3. awareness
4. attention

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Just to live in the same house with Sallie’s mother is an education. She’s the most interesting, entertaining, companionable, charming woman in the world; she knows everything. Think how many summers I’ve spent with Mrs. Lippett and how I’ll ______ the contrast.

1. know
2. learn
3. appreciate
4. like

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Experiencing «fun scary» can give us _______________ of mastery over it. That can feel very gratifying. We choose to experience a scary activity. By exhibiting agency to face something scary, we are acknowledging that we are in control of it. We also realize the safety inherent in this — that if we walk into a «haunted» house, we’re not going to be murdered. Not really. Right?

1. a mind
2. nature
3. a sense
4. a reason

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Bow echoes are broad, arc-shaped weather fronts — bow-shaped, in fact — which can be tens to hundreds of kilometres long. They __________ over an area in a matter of a few hours at most, and they are associated with strong and localised gusts of wind, called straight-line winds.

1. run
2. get
3. pass
4. take

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Unlike the harsh Antarctic conditions above the waves, the deep ocean here is a haven for life — thanks to almost 24-hour sunlight, plankton bloom and krill feast on them, in turn ensuring plenty of food __________ the seafl oor. The abundance of life down there is spectacular, with two-metre barrel sponges and giant sea-spiders.

1. reaches
2. falls
3. drops
4. descends

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When tested one-and-a-half-hours later, the two groups showed strikingly different patterns of recall. The participants given the break remembered nearly 50% of their list, compared to an average of 28% for the group who had been given no time to recharge their mental batteries. The finding suggested that our memory for new information is especially __________ just after it has first been encoded, making it more susceptible to interference from new information.

1. threatened
2. slight
3. fragile
4. delicate

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He met local people who showed him to built _____, hunt for food, survive in very cold conditions. And in 1983, he founded The Woodlore School of Wilderness Bushcraft, so that others could also learn these skills.

1. houses
2. shelters
3. tents
4. bungalows