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Exercise

Instructions:

You are given a piece of text with eight spaces.

Think of a word which best fits the context of the sentence, and type it into the space.

Use only one word for each space.

 

Once all the questions have been answered, click on the check button.

Correct answers will appear in green, incorrect answers in red.

Your mark will be given as a percentage.

 

The pass mark for this exercise is 60% or over, and you need to be able to do this exercise in the exam in about 10 minutes.

(You have been given a timer.)

 

Example:
I don't agree ......WITH............what you say.

10:00 min.

Jenever

All hail jenever - the precursor to gin that began the British love (1) with juniper-infused hooch. The nectar was (2) to England by mercenaries from the Low Countries in the 17th century. For a blast of jenever pleasure today, head one hour by train east of Brussels to Hasselt, which hosts Belgium's national jenever festival (3) October. Hasselt's status as Belgium's jenever capital explains the presence of the Nationaal Jenever museum. It is housed in a beautifully restored and (4) active 19th-century distillery on Witte Nonnenstraat. During Jenever Feesten there is a bronze fountain on Maastrichterstraat, from (5) jenever flows instead of water. If you're struggling to find it, ask anyone for The Barrel Man, but you'll have to wait your (6) . A jenever tram glides (7) town; marching bands play as waiters race with laden trays to win their own weight in jenever. Street corner pop-up bars tempt visitors with jenevers from (8) Flanders.


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