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CELPIP Practice Reading: Reading for Information ID: #63133 Easy Peggy's Cove lighthouse and visitor safety

Read the following passage.

A. Peggy's Point Lighthouse, usually called the Peggy's Cove lighthouse, stands on a wide point of bare granite beside the fishing village of Peggy's Cove, about a 40-minute drive southwest of Halifax. The white, eight-sided concrete tower is about 15 metres high, with a red lantern on top. The village is home to about 40 residents, but the point around the lighthouse drew more than 700,000 visitors in 2019. It ranks among the busiest tourist stops in the province, and it may be the world's most photographed lighthouse.

B. The first light at the point was set up in 1868 to mark the eastern entrance to St. Margaret's Bay. It was a wooden tower built on top of the keeper's house. It showed a red light, and a silver-plated mirror made its kerosene lamp look brighter. Early in the twentieth century the wooden tower was replaced by the present concrete one, a little to the west. The light is officially named for Peggy's Point rather than the cove, because its purpose is to mark the point. The cove has its own small light on the government wharf.

C. The rock under the lighthouse is granite about 375 million years old. It formed when molten rock cooled several kilometres deep in the Earth's crust, and it was later exposed at the surface by erosion. Much later, thick ice sheets covered the area. When they melted for the last time, about 12,000 years ago, they left the granite polished smooth and dropped large boulders across the land. When surf throws salt spray into the air, the smooth rock near the water turns black and slippery.

D. The main danger comes from the sea. Rogue waves break over the rocks, and people standing close to the edge have been swept away and killed. In 2009 a woman spent about 12 minutes in the water before someone threw her a life preserver. In 2015 a young Ontario man was swept off the rocks and disappeared, and three months later another was rescued after slipping into the sea. The province then put up more warning signs. In 2021 a large viewing deck was added, meant to keep tourists off the wave-washed rocks in storms. The deck also lets officials close the trails to the rocks during major storms, but daring visitors can still climb onto them.

E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.

Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.

- 1.
The first light was placed on top of a building where the person in charge of it lived.

- 2.
After some accidents, officials added more notices about the risk.

- 3.
Far more people came to the site in one year than live in the nearby village.

- 4.
This tower is taller than any other light in Nova Scotia.

- 5.
Long ago, a covering of ice left the rock at the point even and glossy.

- 6.
The light's official name comes from the piece of land it marks, not from the cove.

- 7.
When it gets wet from the sea, the stone near the water changes colour and becomes hard to stand on.

- 8.
A big platform was built partly to stop people from walking on the rocks when the weather is bad.

- 9.
At first the light shone red, and a shiny reflector made it look stronger.

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