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USE OF ENGLISH. Fill in the numbered gaps with appropriate words. Here are 10 of the missing words: way , client , from , to , complaining , accompanied , made , food , about , except
A 72-year-old widow, Mrs Frances Smith, pleaded (1) ______________ yesterday to causing unnecessary suffering (2) _______________
seventeen of the forty-four poodles which she kept in her small three-bedroomed house in the village of Wheatley.
The court was told that Mrs Smith's neighbours began (3) ______________ to her more than six months ago about the dogs and the conditions in (4) ______________
they were kept. However, she (5) ______________ to do anything about it. Finally, one of the neighbours, (6) ______________
to put up with the noise of the dogs barking all night, called in the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
An RSPCA inspector, (7) ______________ by a police officer, called on Mrs Smith last month and told her (8) ______________ the complaints. She claimed that she had only thirty dogs and they were all
(9) ______________ looked after very well. However, when a search was (10) ______________, it turned out that she had forty-four dogs, all of whom were in very poor condition, suffering (11) ______________ neglect and malnutrition.
The RSPCA inspector, Mr Tom Watson, told the court that seventeen of the dogs were in (12) ______________ a poor state that they had to be destroyed. All the others (13) ______________ one were found good homes. Mr James Douglas, defending Mrs Smith, said that she (14) ______________ never intended to harm the animals in any (15) ______________
. 'This case calls for understanding (16) ______________ than punishment. My (17) ______________ is a lonely confused old woman (18) ______________ only companions were her dogs. Her only (19) ______________ was a small pension, almost all of which she used to purchase (20) ______________ for them,' he said.
Solutions in the next post
SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post:
Passive sentence into the active voice: Authorities expect hundreds of millions of people to be on the move this week.
A>> 1. of 2. to, about 3.to 4. from 5. for 6. from 7. with 8. for 9. about 10. in
B>> 1. complaints 2. barking 3.neighbourhood 4. defence 5. cruelty 6. intention 7. understanding 8. guilty 9. permission 10. decision
