For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example \(0\).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS in the answer boxes provided.
Tip:
- Read the text quickly once, without paying attention to the gaps.
- Read again carefully, trying to fill each gap. The missing words can be: adverbs, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, etc. If you can't find the answer for a gap, move on to the next one and return later.
- When you've finished, read the text again to see if your answers are grammatically correct and make sense in the sentence and the text.
THE 'GRAMMAR' OF ENGLISHNESS
We are constantly 0 ___ told that 13___ English have lost 14___ national identity - that there is no 15___ thing as 'Engllishness' . There has been a spate 16___ books bemoaning this alleged identity crisis, 17___ titles ranging 18___ the plaintive ANYONE FOR ENGLAND? to the inconsolable ENGLAND: AN ELEGY. Having spent much of the past twelve years doing research 19___ various aspects of English culture and social behaviour - in pubs, at racecourses, in shops, in night-clubs, 20___ trains, 21___ street corners - I am convinced that there is such a thing as 'Englishness' , and that reports of 22___ demise have been greatly exaggerated. In the research for this book, I set 23___ to discover the hidden, unspoken rules of English behaviour, and what 24___ rules tell us about national identity.
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