Complete with the correct word from the choices given. Advanced and intermediate students should NOT refer to the choices given.

A stutter makes it difficult to speak. For example, a st-st-st-stutter m-m-makes it d-d-d-d-d-difficult to speak.

At the speech clinic of a university, the lecturer (01)....................................... an idea for helping his stuttering students. He decided to give (02)....................................... some practical exercises. He knew that stuttering is often caused by shyness, (03)....................................... he sent them to shops to ask for things which the shop did not usually have in stock. He told them to ask for the object, then to ask (04)....................................... it could be found, and then (05)....................................... to get there.

One result was a lot of requests for p-p-p-ping-p-p-pong or t-t-t-table t-t-t-t-tennis balls (06)....................................... the university bookshop. At (07)....................................... , the early customers were sent off somewhere (08)....................................... . However, (09)....................................... the fifth student arrived, he found that the bookshop had (10)....................................... ping-pong balls in stock to supply everyone in the university.

The shop manager was (11)....................................... . He said: "I don't know what's going (12)....................................... . Why should people expect a bookshop to stock ping-pong balls? Well, we have to keep our customers happy. But (13)....................................... really worries me, though, is why everyone who (14)....................................... ping-pong stutters."

01. having     has     had     have
02. it     they     their     them
03. so    because    therefore    as
04. why    what    where    how
05. means    who    what    how
06. at    to    in    by
07. first    last    it    there
08. other    apart    else    down
09. when    whenever    until    if
10. more    many    enough    all
11. questioning    puzzling    questioned    puzzled
12. up    at    on    by
13. what    that    it    there
14. play    played    plays    playing

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