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Gap Filling

1 Fill in the blanks with use(d) to and a suitable word.

1. İrem used to have a car, but last year she sold it and bought a new motorbike.

2. We have been living in London for five years. We ____________________________ in Cairo.
3. There ______________________________ a bank near the post office. It was built last year.
4. Karen _____________________________________ my best friend, but we aren’t good friends any longer.
5. ____________________________________________ any instrument in your childhood?

6. It only takes me about 40 minutes to get to school now that we have moved to a new house, but it
____________________________ more than 10 minutes.

2 Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.

I’ll never forget the day I 1) met (meet) my best friend. My friend 2) _____________________ (have)
a party because he 3) ____________________________ (pass) all the exams. I 4) ________________________ (not go)

to his house before. I felt shy. As soon as I 5) ______________________________ (sit) on the sofa, a new boy
6) ____________________________ (walk) up. There 7) ____________________________ (be) a shirt from my favourite

football team on his body. We have been friends for ten years now.

3 Fill in the blanks with the connectors below.

because although so but when nevertheless however before

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867, 1) but the Independent
country of Poland didn’t exist at the time. 2) ________________ her

parents educated her to love Poland and to fight for the country's
independence, she went to Paris to study in 1889 3) ______________ it

was easier for a woman to get an education there. She wasn’t as
prepared as the other students. 4) __________________, she worked hard

and completed her Master’s Degree in physics in three years. She
met Pierre Curie in 1894 5) __________________ she began to work in his

laboratory. They fell in love with each other. He persuaded her not
to go back to Poland, 6) __________________ she remained in France and became the first woman in France to

receive a doctorate. She and her husband Pierre became famous for their work on the X-ray. This was a

revolutionary discovery. It enabled doctors to take pictures of the inside of the body. 7) __________________,
her work with radium led to health problems and probably caused her death. She had received two Nobel
Prizes for her work in chemistry 8) __________________ she died in 1934.

ORTAÖĞRETİM 8 ENGLISH-11
GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ