Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of our country; a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.
I want to thank everyone on the NHS front liens, 1 care workers and those carrying out essential rules, who selflessly continue 2 day-to-day duties outside the home in support of as all.
I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do 3 (appreciate) and every hour of your hard work brings us 4 (close) to a return to more normal times.
I also want to thank these of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparting many family the pain already 5 (feel) by those who have lost loved ones.
Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, we will overcome it.
I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in 6 they responded to this challenge. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered 7 an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.
Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people 8 (come) together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help with the relief effort.
And though self-isolating at times 9 be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.
But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.
We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us.
We should take comfort that while we may have more still 10 (endure), better days will return: we will be with our friends again: we will be with our families again: we will meet again.
But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.