Reading: How the mobile phone changed the world

Gap-fill exercise

  

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

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1. He got tired of bosses and deadlines and started working as a .
2. Her letter was full of juicy about the people at the party.
3. Do you want a into town?
4. Wages are failing to inflation.
5. There was an accident on the train full of home-going with no fatal consequences.
6. Homeless people write the expression when they have to fill in a form about their address.
7. It's only reasonable that people on a high should pay more tax.
8. The doctor gave a answer about his chances of making a full recovery so his family is still very worried.
9. The pictures are similar, but there are differences between them.
10. He is finding it difficult to get used to his new leg after he had a car crash.
11. Visitors are often to discover how little the town has changed
12. The differences between the two political parties have slowly .
13. My department has been to write a report on teenage alcoholism.
14. By 1970 the Americans had the Russians in space technology.
15. She's taller than her sister.