For items 1–15, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning \(0\).

Example:
0 makes
puts
shows
presents

Spelling
Spelling \(0\) presents a major problem to many students - and, indeed, native speakers - of English. This is \(1\) ... surprising when you consider just how illogical the English spelling \(2\) ... is. The spelling of such basic words as right, through, once, and who seems to \(3\) ... no relation to their \(4\) ... . And how can the words go, sew, and though all rhyme with \(5\) ... other?
There have been attempts in the \(6\) ... to reform English spelling. The playwright George Bernard Shaw was an enthusiastic \(7\) ... for a more phonetic approach. In a clever illustration of the absurdity of English spelling he suggested that the word fish be \(8\) ... by the letters 'ghoti': the gh from enough, the o from women, and the ti from nation. When he died in 1950, he \(9\) ... a large part of his estate to promote spelling reform.
So why do we \(10\) ... in spelling words the way we do, \(11\) ... the efforts of reformers like Shaw? One reason is that we are too \(12\) ... with the words as they are currently spelled. It is certain that any change in the rules \(13\) ... be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to \(14\) ... . Another is that there is \(15\) ... a variety of regional accents within the English speaking world that it would be unfair to select just one as the standard model for spelling.