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KET Write one word in each gap to complete
the text.
Strange but true!
Everyone has heard of Titanic, the ship
which, (1) — _1912, hit an iceberg
(2)
the North Atlantic
(3) — 11.40pm (4) — 14th
April and which sank (5) _ 2.20am
the next day. But here's something very strange.
There's a book called Futility, or the Wreck of
the Titan, written by a writer called Morgan
Robertson. In the story, there's a ship called
Titan. Like Titanic, it's the biggest ocean liner
_ the world and, like Titanic, it's
sailing across the North Atlantic (7)
April when it hits an iceberg (8)
night and sinks. What's so strange about that?
The book was written (9)
1898-
that's 14 years before Titanic went
(10) — her one and only voyage!
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