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USE THE WORDS IN THE BOX TO FILL THE GAPS.

THERE ARE FOUR WORDS YOU DON'T NEED:

The day we moved house was one of the busiest days of my life. It was in December. (a)

.., we had been packing for a long time, but there was (b)..

...... an awful

lot of work to do on the actual day. (c)..

_, everything went smoothly. The removal

men arrived and began loading their van. (d).

_ they were emptying room after

room, my wife and I were trying to clean up. We hardly noticed the fact that it had begun to

snow. Then things began to go wrong. (e).

leg broke. (f)

_, a valuable table was dropped and its

_, we lost the baby, and it was not (g).

.......she started to

cry that we realized she had been put into the van by mistake. We worked hard all morning.

and by midday our old house was empty.

(h)...................it continued to snow. We set off on the journey to our new house,

driving slowly to avoid skidding in the icy conditions. WE (i) arrived at four

o'clock, by which time it was dark, and three feet of snow covered the ground. (j).

we had quite a few people to help us unload, and by six o'clock we were in. (k).

wondered how we had managed to do everything. I'll never forget that day.

(1). _, I still have nightmares about it!

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