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Multilevel · Part 1 · CEFR Mock Test 09
Spies: Reading answers
Answers to questions 1–6 (6 in all), each with why it is right.
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Spies
Although most countries employ spies, few will ever admit that they do. Therefore, it is only on the rare occasion of a _____(1)_____ being caught by an enemy _____(2)_____ that the public becomes aware of what goes on behind the political scenes. Even the exchange of a captured _____(3)_____ spy for one of the country's own master-spies who had been caught by an enemy country is done as secretly as possible. Early one cold December morning last year, three men dressed in heavy black overcoats got out of a small blue car that had stopped on a lonely bridge in Northern Germany. They stood on the _____(4)_____ for fifteen minutes waiting and watching until they saw a motorboat draw up…
Answers 1–6
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spy Note completion
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country Note completion
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enemy Note completion
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bridge Note completion
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men Note completion
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boat Note completion
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