Use of English Exercises, Practice for Cambridge First Certificate

Jane Wilkinson has a problem. She was employed ...................... Preston Maternity Hospital, England, but she lost her job. Her trouble is her appetite. She was accused ...................... eating 48 birth certificates, 19 marriage certificates as well as other important papers, the property ...................... the hospital where she was employed.

She said that she had managed ...................... control her habit while ...................... training and studying to be a nurse. She had ...................... that time stuck ...................... packets of Kleenex in order to satisfy her hunger. However, she had recently got married and her terrible hunger had returned.

When she was ...................... her teens she started ...................... ...................... blotting paper. ..................... the time she left school she was chewing her way ...................... half a dozen school text books each lunchtime. ...................... tea, she would eat the sports pages ...................... her father's evening paper.

Nurse Wilkinson said, "When I found my first job, I stuck ...................... a diet of bus tickets and cigarette packets, but I lost my boy friend ...................... it. Then it seemed a good idea ...................... become a nurse. Everything went well until I got married."