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VII. Complete the passage
Fear of Friday 13th, and of the number 13 is generally known as the thirteen superstition. A recent survey (..1..) out in Britain
revealed that 41% of British people feel uncomfortable about Friday 13th while 4% live in dread of it. The reluctance of superstition
sailors to sail on Friday 13th was (..2..) considered to have reached such a level that in 1791 the government had to (..3..) that the
superstition was a fallacy. Construction was started on a new ship on Friday 13th; she was named HMS Friday; she was (..4..) on a
Friday and she began her first (..5..) from London on a Friday. Neither the ship nor the (..6..) was heard from again. Friday 13th also
interferes (..7..) hospital schedules because many patients refuse to (..8..) operations on that day but it does not seem to be the
(..9..) that fewer accidents happen Friday 13th than on any other day. Serious numerologists claim that the number 13 is not really
as bad as people say. What it really brings is surprises, which can be good (..10..) bad.
1. A. brought
B. carried
C. conducted
2. A. lastly
3. A. argue
B. mostly
B. claim
B. balanced
4. A. launched
5. A. travel
6. A. members
B. cruise
B. fellows
B. in
B. have
7. A. with
B. truth
B. other than
8. A. take
9. A. case
10. A. rather than
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C. once
C. prove
C. watered
C. trip
C. staff
C. at
C. practice
C. matter
C. so as
D. found
D. finally
D. examine
D. pushed
D. voyage
D. crew
D. on
D. use
D. reality
D. as well as
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