BBTÜRKAY
26th August 2007, 14:57
Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Type the word into the space after the question number.
WORDS:Only,Their,Come,Non,Not,Say,His,To,As,With,Where,Went,First,Although,Let
The Map Thief
For a couple of years, Gilbert Bland was a unique figure in the privileged world of antique map dealing. He made a 100% profit on every map he sold, (1)_______ because he was a clever businessman, but because he was a thief. In the mid-1990s, Bland crept around libraries in the USA, armed (2)_______ a sharp razor and a baggy shirt and sliced out those ancient maps which took (3)_______ fancy. Some were worth tens of thousands of dollars, and he (4)_______ on to sell them through both mail-order catalogues and his shop in Florida.
(5)_______ Bland's historical knowledge of maps was patchy at best, his knowledge of (6)_______ exact location in the rare book stacks was second to (7)_______. When he heard that early maps of, (8)_______, Seattle were becoming popular, he would know precisely (9)_______ to start slicing.
His crimes only came (10)_______ light when a researcher in a Baltimore library noticed that a man appeared to be tearing a page from a 200-year-old book (11)_______ if it were a newspaper. At (12)_______, it was assumed that this was an isolated case, and the library and the police were happy to (13)_______ Bland off with a warning. (14)_______ later did they (15)_______ across his notebooks, which contained elaborate details of all his thefts.
WORDS:Only,Their,Come,Non,Not,Say,His,To,As,With,Where,Went,First,Although,Let
The Map Thief
For a couple of years, Gilbert Bland was a unique figure in the privileged world of antique map dealing. He made a 100% profit on every map he sold, (1)_______ because he was a clever businessman, but because he was a thief. In the mid-1990s, Bland crept around libraries in the USA, armed (2)_______ a sharp razor and a baggy shirt and sliced out those ancient maps which took (3)_______ fancy. Some were worth tens of thousands of dollars, and he (4)_______ on to sell them through both mail-order catalogues and his shop in Florida.
(5)_______ Bland's historical knowledge of maps was patchy at best, his knowledge of (6)_______ exact location in the rare book stacks was second to (7)_______. When he heard that early maps of, (8)_______, Seattle were becoming popular, he would know precisely (9)_______ to start slicing.
His crimes only came (10)_______ light when a researcher in a Baltimore library noticed that a man appeared to be tearing a page from a 200-year-old book (11)_______ if it were a newspaper. At (12)_______, it was assumed that this was an isolated case, and the library and the police were happy to (13)_______ Bland off with a warning. (14)_______ later did they (15)_______ across his notebooks, which contained elaborate details of all his thefts.