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9 For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example (0) at the beginning. Going missing

Every year police forces across Europe deal (0) WITH hundreds of thousands of cases of missing people. Occasionally, the circumstances surrounding the disappearance lead police (1) ____ organise highly publicised manhunts. More frequently however, the families of missing people (2) _____ told that the person concerned will soon return of their own accord.

For this reason, the British missing persons bureau at Scotland Yard in London is notified by local police forces of people (3) ____ have gone missing only (4) ____ they have failed to turn (5) ____ after 28 days. However, the bureau does act with more urgency when people who are regarded (6) ____ vulnerable are involved: these include people below the age of 18 or over 65, people who have disappeared (7) ____ mysterious circumstances and people who are outside their country of residence when they go missing.

In (8) ____ cases, a search is started immediately. The vast majority of missing people do actually return home within hours, days or weeks, but when the disappearance occurs far (9) ____ home, the sense of hopelessness is total. It seems that most local police forces do not (10) ____ the time to do the necessary background investigations into these cases, (11) ____ as co-operating with other national forces abroad, or with Interpol, or running checklists on (12) ____ who saw the person last. As more and (13) ____ people travel abroad or choose to live in (14) ____ countries, the need (15) ____ international co-operation in missing persons' cases becomes more pressing.

10 Complete each part sentence a) to j) with one of the endings 1) to 10). Use each ending once only.

a) I decided to buy a burglar alarm after someone broke

b) When Alan was stopped outside the supermarket he ended

c) As it was Sheila's first offence she was let

d) After climbing over the prison wall, Peter managed to get

e) The old couple who live opposite were taken

f) At the end of the trial Hilary was found

g) My neighbours admitted denting my car but got away

h) The bank at the end of the street was held

i) Nobody saw Jack cheating and he got away with

j) The hijackers took fifteen people

1) in by a salesman who cheated them out of their money.

2) away by stealing a car parked nearby.

3) up at the police station, charged with shoplifting.

4) it, although everyone suspected what had happened.

5) into my house and stole my stereo.

6) off with only a warning.

7) with paying only £50 damages.

8) hostage and demanded £1,000,000 from the authorities.

9) guilty and sentenced to six months in prison.

10) up by two masked men last week.

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