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Exercise "The bell", created by bridg (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 742 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:
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Stats (486 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 73.7 %
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: 68.9 %
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: 76.3 %
where the houses * less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields,

Question 6 passed: 68.7 %
saw the evening sky *, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly.

Question 7 passed: 70 %
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: 62.3 %
one said *, 'I really wonder if there is a church out in the wood.

Question 10 passed: 69.5 %
The bell has indeed a strange sweet sound! * we go there and see what the cause of it is?'

Question 11 passed: 72.2 %
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: 76.7 %
and thought they were now really in the wood. A confectioner * the town

Question 14 passed: 54.5 %
also came out and put up a stall there; then came another confectioner who hung a bell over * stall,

Question 15 passed: 62.6 %
which was covered with pitch to protect it from the rain, but the clapper *.

Question 16 passed: 71.2 %
When people came home they used to say that it had been very romantic, and * really means something else than

Question 17 passed: 52.5 %
merely having tea. Three persons declared that they * as far as the end of the wood;

Question 18 passed: 50.6 %
they had always heard the strange sound, but there it seemed * as if it came from the town.

Question 19 passed: 75.7 %
One of them wrote verses about the bell, and said that it was * the voice of a mother speaking to an

Question 20 passed: 77.2 %
intelligent and beloved child; no tune, he said, was sweeter * the sound of the bell.


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