Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
When I was very little, I caught the travel bug. It started after my grandparents first brought me to their home in France and I have now been to twenty-nine different countries. Each has given me a unique learning experience.
At five, I marvelled at the Eiffel Tower in the City of Lights. When I was eight, I stood in the heart of Piazza San Marco feeding hordes of pigeons, then glided down Venetian waterways on sleek gondolas. At thirteen, I saw the ancient, megalithic structure of Stonehenge and walked along the Great Wall of China, amazed that the thousand-year-old stones were still in place.
It was through exploring cultures around the world that I first became interested in language.
It began with French, which taught me the importance of pronunciation. I remember once asking a store owner in Paris where Rue des Pyramides was. But when I pronounced it PYR–a-mids instead of peer–a-mids, with more accent on the A, she looked at me bewildered.
In the eighth grade, I became fascinated with Spanish and aware of its similarities with English through cognates. Baseball in Spanish, for example, is béisbol in English, which looks different but sounds nearly the same. This was incredible to me as it made speech and comperhension more fluid, and even today i find that cognates come to the rescue when I forgot how to say something in Spanish.
Then, in high school, I developed an enthusiasm for Chinese. As I studied Chinese at my school, I marveled how if just one stroke was missing from a character, the meaning is lost. I loved how long words were formed by combining simple characters, so Huǒ meaning fire and Shān meaning mountain can be joined to create HuǒShān, which means Volcano. I love spending hours at a time practing the characters and i can feel the beatuty and rhythm as i form them.
Which word from the passage is te most appropriate synonym of the word 'unblievable'?
