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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

Tobacco

People have used tobacco for thousands of years. They've smoked it, snorted it, chewed it, and (1) ... drank its juice. Native Americans used tobacco in ceremonies and rituals. In (2) ... cases, healers used the plant that tobacco comes from as medicine. European colonists picked (3) ... the tobacco habit, and smoking became popular in European cities like London. Demand grew quickly.
At the (4) ... time, England's new colony in Virginia was (5) ... the brink of failure. When the English settler John Rolfe landed in Virginia in 1609, he found that tobacco grew well in the region. Rolfe's discovery turned tobacco (6) ... a cash crop for England and gave colonists a reason to expand the territory (7) ... the expense of the Native Americans already living there. (8) ... ten years, the colony was producing so much tobacco that the colonists couldn't tend it by themselves.

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answer keys

 

1)    EVEN
ADVERB EVEN
Used to emphasize something unexpected or surprising: 
He didn't even call to say he wasn't coming. 
 
2)    SOME/MANY
DETERMINER SOME
Used to refer to a person or thing that is not known, named, or specified:
For some reason, the lights went out.
 
3)    UP
PHRASAL VERB PICK UP
To learn (something) usually in an informal way:
He's been picking up some bad habits from his friends.
 
4)    SAME
IDOM AT THE SAME TIME
Used when you want to say that something else is also true':
Frank wants more respect, but at the same time he does nothing to earn it.
 
5)    ON
IDIOM ON THE BRINK OF
if you are on the brink of something, you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation:
The two nations are on the brink of war.
6)    INTO
PHRASAL VERB TURN INTO
To change into a different state or form :
There are plans to turn the old cinema into an apartment building.
 
7)    AT
IDIOM AT THE EXPENSE OF
With loss or damage to somebody/something:
She built up the business at the expense of her health. 
 
8)    WITHIN
PREPOSITION WITHIN
Before a certain period of time has passed:
We should have the test results back within 24 hours.