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Open Cloze Exercise 13

For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully at the words both before and after each space.

1. No-one knows what happened to the manager but he ___________ believed to have run off with all the company's money and gone to live in South America.

2. ___________ I see the book you are looking for, I'll get it.

3. When he was alive, my grandfather ___________ take us down to the nearby lake every Sunday to feed the ducks and swans there.

4. We made about two million dollars last month but a third ___________ that total will be spent on taxes.

5. Unless you begin to study hard immediately, there is a good chance ___________ failure in your exams this summer.

6. Tonight's play off match is unlikely to ___________ place due to rain and high winds. League officials say they will try again tomorrow evening.

7. You have to try and relax more Sheila. You're ___________ stressed out that it is starting to affect your health.

8. By the time the Apollo landings finished, NASA ___________ sent several men to the lunar surface.

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