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51 The police need to find __________ that the man was in the flat at the time of the burglary. PROVE
52 You need to get __________ for your travel expenses from the department manager. AUTHORITY
53 His behaviour at that time was __________ stupid. He should have known better. CREDIBLE
54 Gemma pushed the doorbell and waited __________ for someone to answer. NERVE
55 He shook his head in __________ . You shouldnt have done that, he said. APPROVE
56 Young children tend to ask __________ questions about anything and everything around them. END
57 The managers attempt at motivating everyone was __________ and everyone ignored him. LAUGH
58 Today, a term in prison doesnt seem to act as a much of a _________ to potential criminals. DETER
59 The __________ of alcohol is not allowed on the streets of this town. CONSUME
60 I havent got the __________ idea what youre talking about. SLIGHT
61 There must have been some kind of __________ this is not the model I ordered. UNDERSTAND
64 Although they are completely different __________ , they get on well with each other. PERSON
65 Who has been the most __________ person in your life so far? INFLUENCE
66 It was very __________ of her to send me flowers after the accident. THOUGHT
68 She said shed seen a __________ character hiding in the bushes behind her house. SUSPECT
69 It wasnt until later that they realised the __________ of the events they had just witnessed. SIGNIFY
70 The police asked him for some kind of __________ when they stopped his car. IDENTIFY
71 The room was small, dirty and painted in an __________ shade of grey awful! APPEAL
72 Please make sure you take all your __________ with you when you disembark. BELONG
73 Its important to give young children __________ when they are trying new things. ENCOURAGE
75 The witnesses statements were __________ , so the police couldnt make an arrest. CONTRADICT
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Today there is still discussion as to (85) __________ the game came to (86) __________ known
as tennis. One theory holds that it came from the Anglo-Saxon tenetz, (87) __________ means
Take this! Play! or it could have been from the French word tenir, meaning to hold, but no
one is absolutely sure.
However, it wasnt (88) __________ the 14th century that the leather gloves used to protect the
hands when playing developed (89) __________ small rackets although some people credit the
invention of the first racket (90) __________ the Italians in the 16th century. From this time
tennis was played with a racket (91) __________ of the hand, and was played inside, not
outside. It became very popular with Henry VIII, who had his own tennis court and, as a
(92) __________ , it became (93) __________ as the Game of Kings. It was also extremely
popular in France with religious men and (94) __________ is evidence that the Bishops
(95) __________ receive a gift of tennis balls on Easter Day from the parishioners. In England
it was called real tennis. Two centuries later, in 1873, a Major Walter Wingfield invented a
new game called Sphairistike, a Greek word which meant playing ball, and it was played on
hourglass-shaped courts on the lawns of wealthy English people.
Today, the most famous tennis tournament is (96) __________ at Wimbledon, which is where
the court shape we recognise today (97) __________ born. The very first championship was in
1877 and, (98) __________ today, only 22 players entered the Mens Singles tournament.
Strangely (99) __________ , the winner of the competition, Spencer Gore, announced that he
didnt think the game would become very popular because it was quite boring.
(100) __________ wrong he was!
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