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<media type="none"/><head><title>Sentence Match</title><task>Type in the word missing from the sentences.</task></head>
<body findword="period">
<item><text>the ______ covered by the book</text></item>
<item><text>The film spans a ______ of 40 years of Castro's rule.</text></item>
<item><text>Eastern Europe entered a ______ of transition in the 1990s.</text></item>
<item><text>The ______ was marked by a succession of financial crises.</text></item>
<item><text>after a long ______ of waiting</text></item>
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