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<media type="none"/><head><title>Sentence Match</title><task>Type in the word missing from the sentences.</task></head>
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<item><text>The project had a slow start, but is now gathering ____.</text></item>
<item><text>Thinking that she was being followed, she quickened her ____.</text></item>
<item><text>Brown set the ____ in the first mile.</text></item>
<item><text>The younger children struggled to keep ____ with the older ones.</text></item>
<item><text>She kept up a ____ of ten miles an hour.</text></item>
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