Multiple Choice Cloze - Lesson 178
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. Have you ever worked on a jigsaw puzzle, fitting the pieces together to ___(1)___ a picture? Perhaps you're wondered how they started. They were known as far ___(2)___ as the days of ___(3)___ Egypt, when they were made of baked tile. For some ___(4)___, people ceased making them, and the idea disappeared for centuries. It wasn't ___(5)___ the 1760s that the puzzle returned this time in England. A printer, John Spilsbury, ___(6)___ to glue a map onto a thin piece of wood and saw it into odd-shaped pieces. He thought that such puzzles would be ___(7)___ and educational for children. People bought Spilsbury's puzzles and his business grew. Later, other printers began ___(8)___ jigsaw puzzles. They usually were of poems or pictures. Now people of ___(9)___ enjoy putting puzzles together. Making jigsaw puzzles has become a multimilion-dollar ___(10)___, and they are enjoyed throughout the world.
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