Multiple-choice cloze
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
For more than two hundred years, the lighthouses around the coast of Britain were looked by keepers who lived in or beside the tower. The job was lonely and sometimes dangerous. Keepers on rock lighthouses far out at sea might spend several weeks at a without seeing their families, and storms could leave them cut off for much longer. Keepers were for keeping the lamp burning through the night, which meant cleaning the lenses, winding the machinery and keeping a careful on the weather. To pass the long hours, many of them up hobbies such as painting, reading or making models. From the 1960s onwards, however, new technology gradually the need for people. The last lighthouse in the country to be by keepers was automated in 1998. Today, some former keepers' cottages are rented out as holiday homes, giving visitors a of the life the keepers once led.
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