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<exercise subhead="dragdrop"><media type="none"/><head><title>Drag and drop</title><task>Match the words and definitions. Click on a word then drag it into the appropriate box.</task></head><body>
<item><text>The large stores have pushed up the ______ in the area.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">rents</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>After two months of negotiations we had exhausted all ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">avenues</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>A truck driver gave me a ______ to the nearest garage.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">tow</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>We gathered ______ for the fire.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">wood</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>It is easy to believe that money brings ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">happiness</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>a car crash which wrecked his ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">career</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>Wages are not keeping pace with ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">inflation</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>She sewed the ______ with small neat stitches.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">seam</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>He felt nothing but ______ for them.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">contempt</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>an old woman dripping with ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">diamonds</choice></choice_g></item>
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