Question

EXERCISE 4
Fill in the blanks with the word(s) you think best. Do not use the same word(s) more
than once.
Last Saturday we drove to my grandparent's house. The journey usually takes less
than two hours, as most of it is on the ...
However, this time it took more
than three hours to get there.
We had been on the express way for about ten minutes when we heard on radio that
there had been an accident about twenty kilometers ahead of us. A van driver
had...
to.
a truck without looking in his mirror , and had
collided with the car in the outside ... ........ There was a long
.from
the scene of the ... ...... and the police had set up a
This meant that
we had to leave the expressway at the ........... before the accident and rejoin it at
another junction further along. I
The diversion took us through a busy town, and we did not get back on to the
expressway until half an hour later. About ten miles further on we found
ourselves at a standstill in a ...... .......caused by
where the
road is being widened. The traffic finally started move again, but slowly at first.
Fortunately there were no more problems after that, and we reached my
grandparent's house just in time for lunch.​

Answer 1

express way.

given a hit

ring road.

traffic jam

accident

junction

heavy traffic