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Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
watch the intro of the cartoon and complete the narration:


There was a , not very ago, when we lived in an world of elegant and grand parties.The year was and my son Nicholas was the Czar of imperial Russia.
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We were the anniversary of our 's rule.And that , no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Anastasia, my .she bedgged me not to return to ,So I had a very special made for her to make the easier for both of us.
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But we would never be in ,for a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Romanovs.His was Rasputin.We thought he was a man, but he was a ,power-mad and .
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Consumed by his hatred for Nicholas and his ,Rasputin sold his soul for the to them.

From that on, the spark of in our country was fanned into a flame that would soon our lives for ever.
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So many lives were destroyed that .What had always been was now gone for ever.And my Anastasia, my grandchild,I never her .