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Gap Filling

4 Complete the text. Use the past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in parentheses.

In 1962, Nelson Mandela, a leader of the African National Congress (ANC), was sent to prison for life. The ANC
1) was (be) against the idea of apartheid, a system in South Africa which 2) _______________________ (not give)
Black people the same rights as White people. While Mandela 3) _______________________________ (be) in prison,

he 4) _______________________________ (become) very famous all over the world. The South African Government
5) _______________________________ (allow) Mandela to leave prison in 1990. He 6) _______________________________ (be)
a prisoner for more than 27 years. After leaving prison, he 7) _____________________________ (continue) to work for
the Black people in his country. Mandela and the President, de Klerk, 8) _______________________________ (win) the

Nobel Prize in 1993 because they 9) _______________________________(work) very hard for peace. In 1994, Mandela
10) ____________________________ (become) the President of South Africa. There 11) ______________________________
(not be) a Black president before him.

5 Fill in the blanks with the best ending for each sentence: A or B.

1. On the bus, I realised that I didn't have any money because I B .
A) spent it all B) had spent it all

2. When the phone rang, Linda ____________________________ .
A) answered it B) had answered it

3. I had to use my brother’s laptop because I ____________________________ .
A) had broken mine B) broke mine

4. I wasn’t hungry because I ____________________________ .
A) have already eaten lunch B) had already eaten lunch

5. Did you love rollerskating when you ____________________________ .
A) were younger B) had been younger

6 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the idioms below. One is extra.

fall on hard times make ends meet pain in the neck pursue your dreams
hit rock bottom chain reaction ups and downs

1. My best friend has seen lots of ups and downs in her career but finally became a specialist in tax law.
2. It’s not easy to ____________________________ with a big family, but somehow we manage.
3. The collapse of the market has set off a ______________________________ in Asia.
4. When the coronavirus pandemic first swept the world in early 2020, the economy
around the world started to _____________________________________.
5. Mike____________________________________________ after his wife left him.
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.

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2. It’s not easy to ________________ with a big family, but somehow we manage.
3. The collapse of the market has set off a _________________ in Asia.
4. When the coronavirus pandemic first swept the world in early 2020, the economy
around the world started to ______________________.
5. Mike ________________ after his wife left him.