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THE AMAZING FLYING HAT
She was a striking woman
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of about 25, dressed for the races.
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_________ her smart dress and fantastic hat
made
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__________ feathers, she drew admiring glances as she walked down the street. Her hat attracted even
more attention when a gust
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________ wind lifted it
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_______ her head and carried it into the air. We all
stopped to watch as this amazing hat flew
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_________ out heads. People came
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_______ buildings and into the
street. The young woman
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_______ the smart dress was as entertained as the rest
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________ us. Suddenly, the
hat rested
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__________ a high building and we lost sight of it. Then the wind lifted it up again. ‘There it is!’
cried a man
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______ an umbrella. He jabbed his umbrella at the sky
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________. Then an amazing thing hap-
pened. The hat simply disappeared! The mystery was solved when someone shouted
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________ a loud voice.
There was a tall yellow crane
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________ a high building and the crane driver looked down at the crowd
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_________. ‘Lost your hat, miss?’ the crane driver cried and we all gasped
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_________ surprise when we saw
that the hat had been caught by his crane!
‘Lost your hat, miss?’
Exercise 18
Write: Put in at, for, from, in, of, on, out of or to. Use each word at least once.
IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?
A dentist in Bavaria has been haunted by a voice, which swears
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at him all
the time. The voice comes
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_______ light sockets, washbasins and the tele-
phone. It is a sharp, deep voice, which laughs
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_________, the dentist and
mocks him. The poor dentist is suffering
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__________ a bad case of nerves.
Recently, the voice was recorded and broadcast, so now everyone in Bavaria is
looking
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_______ the ghost, but so far no one has succeeded
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_________ find-
ing it. People who don’t believe
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________ ghosts think it is just a practical
joke. The voice always shouts
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________ the dentist, but speaks sweetly
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_______ his 17-year-old assistant, Claudia. But no one can blame Claudia
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_______ the behavior of the ghost or accuse her
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________ playing tricks
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________ her poor boss. Engineers don’t know what to make
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________ it.
‘He’s a technical genius,’ one of them said. The ghost has responded
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__________ all this activity by saying, in a thick Bavarian accent, ‘You’ll never get hold
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________ me!’
You’ll never get hold of me!
Exercise 19
Write: Put in about down, down on, in, in on, up, up on, up to, up with or to.
A CURE FOR SNORING
It’s very difficult for people who sleep silently to put _________ the sound of snoring. Some people
are asleep the moment they lie ___________; others stay ________ half the night waiting for the miracle
of sleep to come _________. Even insomniacs are. Insomniacs are the ones who need to lie _________ in
the morning to catch ________ lost sleep. Snorers will never admit to snoring. They know the rest of the
world looks _______ them and they just can’t face __________ reality. My friend, Henry, a champion
snorer, has just found a cure and he let me ________ his little secret. He has just coughed _______ good
money for a band with a stud on it. He wears the band round his head at and if he tries to sleep on his
back, the stud gives him a jab. I’m sure this news will cheer ________ all snorers, who now have a new
experience to look forward _________. With one of these on their heads, all they have to lose is their
sleep!

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