Malta at War - Collocations and Expressions 9

Gap-filling exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text © Copyright - 2001 BIEB BIEB Exercise prepared by Michael A. Riccioli (2001). Many thanks to John A. Mizzi, Editor of 'Malta at War'.
   cable      cholera      coaling      communications      explosive      facilities      fortifications      freedom      harbour      impressive      later      link      next      plated      ports      quarantine      sailed      stand      steam      submarine      Suez      trade      trading      vital      with  
(1) ten years
(2) to with
(3) a vital network
(4) a major station
(5) an outbreak of
(6) a measure
(7) infected
(8) of movement
(9) the cable
(10) a link up the overland to India
(11) the Canal
(12) British in the Mediterranean
(13) to astride
(14) the and docking
(15) the two decades
(16) an array of
(17) the shell
(18) armour- ships
(19) the advent of propulsion
(20) they the world's routes