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- well-travelled
- set adrift
- washed ashore
- possession
- located
Last updated at 17:29 BST, Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 大象传媒 news reports.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
well-travelled / set adrift / washed ashore / possession / located
1. By the end of the morning, dozens of boxes have ___________, and fishermen run around trying to gather as many as possible.
2. The explorer who ________ the wreck of the Titanic nearly 30 years ago says more needs to be done to protect it from damage.
3. Last month around a thousand Rohingyas were towed out to sea and _______ by the Thai military, said survivors who reached India and Indonesia.
4. Seventy-year-old Mohammed Islamta arranges his few meagre __________ carefully in the dust: a mat, a cooking pot and traditional Tuareg tea-pot and stove, the only things he managed to bring as he fled his home near Menaka in Mali just over a month ago.
5. They are ________ - in reality as well as in cyberspace - and are familiar with different societies and different ways of doing politics.
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