Advanced Vocabulary 13

Exercise 2

Complete the following text with the words in the right form below. The first one has been done for you.

argue, broad, eventual, extent, George, lazy, raise, remain, north, strategy

The Vale of York stretches like a slender sixty-mile
long corridor from the borders of South Yorkshire
(1)_northwards_ to the River Tees. Once an area of
impassable marshland that could only be safely crossed
by way of a (2)_____ ridge to the south of York, today
provides good rich farmland which (3)_____ from the
foothills of the Dales to the slopes of the North York
Moors. The centre of the Vale is cut by the Great
North Road (now the A1), whilst into it run five rivers
- all of which flow (4)_____ across the countryside to
(5)_____ form the Ouse and flow east into the North
Sea. Many of England's greatest battles were fought
here, another indication of the (6)_____ importance of
this ancient thoroughfare.
Around York the Vale (7)_____ to about thirty miles.
The city was founded where a Roman road crossed the
Ouse, and its influence over much of northern England
is underlined by the (8)_____ of Roman "Eboracum" as
well as Viking "Jorvik". Today it is (9)_____ Europe's
finest walled city; a treasure house which encloses
much of England's history. Within its walls are a maze
of old-world streets, elegant (10)_____ buildings, a
ruined Norman abbey, and the largest medieval
cathedral in Europe.

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