On Sweden’s Kungsleden Trail, a Hike Becomes an Encounter With Reindeer and Shared Wonder

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Practice level

C2. Try this level if you can follow the instructions and understand most of the language; choose an earlier level if you need more support.

Question formats

Single choice

How to approach this practice

Use the surrounding sentence to identify the meaning and word form needed. Check which words naturally go together.

1. Question 1 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “demanding” as used in the article?

   1. Requiring considerable effort, attention, or endurance.
   2. Designed primarily for visual appeal
   3. Difficult to anticipate or forecast
   4. Marked by symbolic formality
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   Answer

   Requiring considerable effort, attention, or endurance.

   The adjective describes a route requiring substantial physical effort.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “converge” in context?

   1. Move separately toward different destinations
   2. To come together and produce a unified effect or result.
   3. Become increasingly difficult to interpret
   4. Return repeatedly to an earlier condition
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   Answer

   To come together and produce a unified effect or result.

   The verb indicates that several elements come together meaningfully.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “ceremony” in context?

   1. A competitive athletic event
   2. A formal or symbolic quality that lends dignity and significance to an occasion.
   3. An unexpected wildlife encounter
   4. A practical method of navigation
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   Answer

   A formal or symbolic quality that lends dignity and significance to an occasion.

   Here, ceremony denotes a dignified or symbolic quality.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “picturesque” in context?

   1. Visually attractive in a manner suggestive of an idealized scene or image.
   2. Physically exhausting and hazardous
   3. Socially cohesive but emotionally restrained
   4. Ecologically diverse yet difficult to access
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   Answer

   Visually attractive in a manner suggestive of an idealized scene or image.

   The adjective refers to an attractively idealized visual appearance.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “passive” in context?

   1. Receptive or inactive rather than actively involved or affected.
   2. Immediately visible and emotionally vivid
   3. Ceremonially important and historically preserved
   4. Unpredictable because of changing weather
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   Answer

   Receptive or inactive rather than actively involved or affected.

   The landscape is characterized as inactive rather than actively engaged.

6. Question 6 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “unpredictability” in context?

   1. The quality of being difficult to anticipate or forecast.
   2. The quality of appearing visually attractive
   3. The quality of requiring physical endurance
   4. The quality of creating social solidarity
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   Answer

   The quality of being difficult to anticipate or forecast.

   The noun describes the difficulty of anticipating what will happen.

7. Question 7 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “immediacy” in context?

   1. A vivid sense of directness, urgency, or proximity in experience.
   2. A sense of ceremonial dignity
   3. A tendency toward private reflection
   4. A process of gradual environmental change
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   Answer

   A vivid sense of directness, urgency, or proximity in experience.

   The noun conveys directness and vivid presence in an experience.

8. Question 8 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which option best defines “complements” in context?

   1. Contradicts or weakens
   2. Enhances or completes something by supplying a contrasting or supportive quality.
   3. Separates into distinct categories
   4. Anticipates with unusual accuracy
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   Answer

   Enhances or completes something by supplying a contrasting or supportive quality.

   The verb means that one quality enhances another.

What to review next

Keep a short list of unfamiliar words with their meanings and example sentences. Practise recalling them later, then use them in a sentence of your own.

A focused practice result shows how you did on these tasks. Use several activities across skills to decide what to study next; one practice score does not certify an overall CEFR level.

Before you practise: a worked example

Read the whole sentence before choosing a word. Check both its meaning and the words it naturally combines with.

Please make an appointment before visiting the clinic.

Make an appointment is a natural word combination. Knowing a dictionary meaning alone may not tell you which verb fits.

This teaching example is separate from the scored questions. After your test, compare any mistakes with the explanation and revisit the topic before trying again.