Question 22
In the following passages, the numbered gaps indicated missing words . against each number in the list below each passage, four options are offered in columns lettered A to D. choose the word that is most suitable to fill the numbered gaps in the passages.
This year, the annual school -14- was to a workshop in a nearby village. Although it was well before midday, the blacksmith was already sweating from the -15- from the small -16-. He had an assistant who was energetically pumping the -17- that was fanning the charcoal into bright red -18-. There was no deference between the red-hot coal and the metal. With large -19- the smith lifted the hot iron from the fire and placed it on the -20-. Quickly, picking up a -21-, he began to beat it into the shape he wanted. As he did this, -22- flew from the hot iron in all directions. After he had achieved the shape he wanted, he threw it into a wooden -23- filled with water, where other blackened objects lay.
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