This document presents a series of gapped sentences exercises where the reader must identify a single word that can complete each set of three sentences. There are multiple sets of gapped sentences with missing words relating to topics like recycling, time, taxes, accidents, attention, media, council, testing knowledge, experiments, breaks, breathing, turning back, turning, parts, and heroes. The reader must analyze the context clues in each set of three sentences to determine the missing word.

1. Gapped Sentences
For each group of
sentences, think of a single
word that can be used in all
three sentences.

2. _______ products must be put in the
appropriate bin for recycling.
We must eat the chicken today or it will go
to _______.
Trying to save energy in our homes is a
_____ of time unless everybody does it.

3. Could you do me a ______ and give
me a lift?
I'm not in ______ of reducing the time
we quarantine animals from abroad.
Cuts in taxes always _____ rich people.

4. He had a car ______ but he's OK.
I bumped into her by ______ when
I was shopping.
It is no ______ that he has lost his
job.

5. Fiona had a free afternoon, so she was
able to give the problem her full _______.
The new research has been the subject of
considerable media ______ recently.
I think we should bring the problem to the
______ of the local council.

6. The aim of this task is to _____ your
knowledge of vocabulary.
The drug company has decided not to
_____ its product on animals in the
future.
In order to ______ out his new theory,
the scientist has taken over the
university laboratory.

7. In the ______ term, there is very little
chance of funding for further research into
this matter.
There will be a ______ break after the
next lecture to give students the chance
to grab a coffee.
After climbing to the top of the stairs, the
elderly professor was rather ____ of
breath.

8. As the weather got worse, it became obvious
that we would have to _____ back and find a
hotel in the town we'd just passed through.
When you see the hotel on your left, you
need to _____ right immediately afterwards.
If you _____ the piece of paper over, you'll
se my address on the back.

9. The last _________ of the book isn't
quite as exciting as the rest of it.
He always plays the _________ of the
hero in his films.
Because one small ___________
stopped working, the whole machine
broke down.

10. Write your own gapped sentences.
Create clues to help your classmates find the
words.