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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>during the intervening ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">period</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>His body was returned home for ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">burial</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>The baby weighed seven pounds at ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">birth</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>I'm paid at the ______ of each month.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">beginning</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">shadows</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>I'm off ______ tomorrow night.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">duty</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>She observed the goings-on from behind her mirrored ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">sunglasses</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>She drew on the cigarette and blew smoke through her ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">nostrils</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>the reading on the ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">thermometer</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>children between the ______ of five and eleven</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">ages</choice></choice_g></item>
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