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    Exercise "The bell", created by bridg (a free exercise to learn English):
    Results of the 729 people who have taken this test:
    Average mark: 70.5 / 100 Share


    Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): ploplo / SWITZERLAND, on Wednesday 25 November - 21:44:
    "Thanks a lot for the exercise !!"


    They got a perfect mark


    Stats (473 candidates)
    Question 1 passed: 73.6 %
    In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard * the evening

    Question 2 passed: 76.1 %
    when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise * resembled the sound of a church bell;

    Question 3 passed: 68.3 %
    it only * an instant, for it was lost in the continual roar of traffic and hum of voices which rose from the town.

    Question 4 passed: 62.6 %
    'The evening bell is ringing,' people * to say; 'the sun is setting!' Those who walked outside the town,

    Question 5 passed: 75.9 %
    where the houses * less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields,

    Question 6 passed: 68.5 %
    saw the evening sky *, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly.

    Question 7 passed: 69.6 %
    It seemed as though the sound * a church, deep in the calm,

    Question 8 passed: 77.2 %
    fragrant wood, and hither and thither people looked with devout feelings. A considerable time * :

    Question 9 passed: 62.2 %
    one said *, 'I really wonder if there is a church out in the wood.

    Question 10 passed: 69.8 %
    The bell has indeed a strange sweet sound! * we go there and see what the cause of it is?'

    Question 11 passed: 72.1 %
    The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when * at a number of willow trees

    Question 12 passed: 78 %
    on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the * branches

    Question 13 passed: 76.3 %
    and thought they were now really in the wood. A confectioner * the town

    Question 14 passed: 54.1 %
    also came out and put up a stall there; then came another confectioner who hung a bell over * stall,

    Question 15 passed: 61.9 %
    which was covered with pitch to protect it from the rain, but the clapper *.

    Question 16 passed: 71 %
    When people came home they used to say that it had been very romantic, and * really means something else than

    Question 17 passed: 51.4 %
    merely having tea. Three persons declared that they * as far as the end of the wood;

    Question 18 passed: 50.7 %
    they had always heard the strange sound, but there it seemed * as if it came from the town.

    Question 19 passed: 75.5 %
    One of them wrote verses about the bell, and said that it was * the voice of a mother speaking to an

    Question 20 passed: 76.7 %
    intelligent and beloved child; no tune, he said, was sweeter * the sound of the bell.


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