Easily confused words

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Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints!

   accepted      actually      advice      advise      agreed      borrowed      checked      colleague      controlled      currently      custom      degree      diploma      eventually      foreigner      friend      friendly      habit      history      in detail      in particular      journey      lent      opportunity      possibility      possibly      story      stranger      sympathetic      trip   

1. The train to Liverpool took over three hours.
2. They went on a day to London.
3. Tom loves reading, science fiction .
4. I'll look at your repoort tomorrow - I've only read it once quickly.
5. I like France. The people there are very .
6. Helen was when she heard about my accident.
7. It's a traditional in our country at New Year's Eve.
8. Rachel smokes a lot It's a bad but she won't give it up.
9. Tim some money to Kate.
10. Clare a book from the school library.
11. Sam to play in the tennis tournament this weekend.
12. Pam finally that she was wrong.
13. Gill her make-up before she left the house.
14. If John his temper, he'd have more friends.
15. After hours of searching, Sue found her keys.
16. People will live longer in the next century.
17. A friend of mine lives in Denmark. I've got the of going to visit her there next year.
18. It's already 5 o'clock - there isn't much that the letter will arrive before Wednesday.
19. As soon as Clare finished her university , she got a job.
20. After I got my High School in the United States, I moved to London to study at university.
21. Look - there is Peter. I don't know him very well - he's a of mine from the office.
22. Karen didn't like living in Paris - she missed her best from her home town.
23. My grandfather told me a really frightening ghost last night - I couldn't get to sleep afterwards!
24. Sue loves visiting museums - she's particulary interested in the of Ancient Egypt.
25. We're not American, - we're Canadian.
26. There are about 35 students in my class - last year I only had 20.
27. Sue is quite shy. She would never talk to a .
28. We use the word to describe someone from another country.
29. I strongly you to give up smoking.
30. Paul wasn't sure about which university to apply to, so he asked his teacher for .