B1 Preliminary (PET) Reading – Practice Test 1 — Part 6 – Open cloze
Questions 27–32. Read the text and write the correct answer in each gap. Write ONE word for each gap.
The lighthouse keeper's garden
On a small rocky island off the coast of Scotland there is a lighthouse has not been used for more than fifty years. Nobody lives there now, but visitors who arrive by boat in summer are often surprised to find a garden growing beside it.
The garden was planted in the 1930s by a keeper called Douglas Reid, spent eleven winters alone on the island. Every spring, the supply boat brought him seeds and a little soil. Working in the wind was almost impossible, he built low stone walls to protect the plants.
When Reid finally left, everyone expected the garden to disappear. Instead, it has survived more than eighty years without anyone looking after it. Some of the flowers he planted still appear each May, and they are now the only sign that somebody once made a home this lonely place. Local guides say the island receives around two hundred visitors a year, and almost all of come for the garden rather than the lighthouse.