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. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

1. The electricity bill for last January was £200. How did you manage to [?] a bill as high as that?

2. Guess who I [?] yesterday down the market. John Wilder from Doncaster. He’s up here on business.

3. Irene is a very good seamstress. She has [?] a dress for Mary for her birthday party tomorrow and it only took her a couple of days to do it.

4. I had a squirrel for a pet when I was a boy but one day I let it out to play in the garden. It [?] and I never saw it again.

5. Children! You’re making too much noise in here. [?] and play in the garden.

6. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea or not. I should [?] it [?] the supervisor if I were you.

7. The brakes failed and his car [?] control. He was killed when his car [?] a tree.

8. Can you lend me a cup of sugar? I've [?].

9. I don’t think Downing will last long in this job. He already [?] trouble with the boss twice.

10. Sorry, we have no air conditioners left. There’s been a [?] them because of the heat wave and we have completely [?].

11. Jonathan would like to get into politics. He says he will [?] mayor next year.

12. The ferry to Jersey leaves only once a day in winter but it [?] more often in summer.

13. Hilda forgot to turn off the bath tap and it and the water [?] and flooded the bathroom.

14. The fabric has a lovely pattern but be careful to wash it at a low temperature or the colours will [?].

15. The Danube [?] Vienne, Bratislava, Budapest et Belgrade.

16. The British tax year [?] from 1st April to 31 March.

17. We were driving quite slowly and the engine was [?] well and then, all of a sudden there was a loud bang and it stopped.

18. It’s going to be hard to find the short because the wire [?] behind the skirting board.

19. Ted’s a terrible womaniser He'll [?] anything in a skirt.

20. Justice was rough in the south. A wrongdoer could be tarred and feathered and [?] town.

21. She inherited more than a million but [?] it all in less than five years.