Cloze Practice Test 24
Read the article below and decide which answer best fits each space. Đọc đoạn văn dưới và chọn từ thích hợp cho mỗi chỗ trống.
Jigsaw Puzzle 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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