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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 oil terminal is in the narrow ______ that separates the island from the mainland.</text></item>
<item><text>He tried to swim across the ______s of Gibraltar.</text></item>
<item><text>a ship anchored in the ______s of Hormuz</text></item>
<item><text>The town is on the ______s between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.</text></item>
<item><text>Many hundreds of vessels pass through the ______s each year.</text></item>
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