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Exercise "Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet", created by anonyme (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 2 157 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 77.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): ploplo / SWITZERLAND, on Tuesday 17 September - 14:56:
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Stats (1512 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 79.7 %
My first sight of Lhasa, *, suggests very little is forbidden any longer.

Question 2 passed: 82.3 %
Chinese Communism has created a capitalist paradise and Lhasa is now about as dark and *.

Question 3 passed: 82.9 %
*.

Question 4 passed: 81.9 %
A stride of rocky outcrop in the heart of the city is * in the world.

Question 5 passed: 67.3 %
*, it looms over Lhasa like a giant Buddha.

Question 6 passed: 84.2 %
Chairman Mao wanted to blow it up and I can see why: If a nation could be * by a single structure, Tibet was "The Potala Palace".

Question 7 passed: 75.7 %
I remember seeing this extraordinary building in photos in my encyclopaedia when I was young quite unlike anything else I had seen - the essence of *.

Question 8 passed: 76.9 %
Of course, I had * because at that time Tibet was closed; there was no chance of seeing it.

Question 9 passed: 85.4 %
Now, of course, I can come here; Tibet's open again but sadly, the Dalai Lama, whose palace it was, has gone and *.

Question 10 passed: 80.2 %
The Potala Palace was completed in the * and no expense was spared to make it a home fit for a god-king.

Question 11 passed: 81.3 %
Before the advent of *, the Potala Palace was the tallest building in the world.

Question 12 passed: 81.2 %
It had no running water and everything had to be carried up *.

Question 13 passed: 83.4 %
If you make it to the roof, you'll find the most enchanting of all the palace's one thousand rooms: the *.

Question 14 passed: 80 %
This was the Dalai Lama's bedroom and from here he could be the first in Lhasa to catch the *.

Question 15 passed: 75 %
If ever there was a place to feel " * of all you survey", this was surely it.

Question 16 passed: 78.6 %
It's almost half a century since the present Dalai Lama, the fourteenth, *.

Question 17 passed: 80.2 %
He'd probably * very little of it now.

Question 18 passed: 66.6 %
Only * has so far staved off the encircling concrete.


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