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Late Delivery
B4 | These days, letters posted in one country can be sent to somebody ……………………… on the other side of the world in less than a week, thanks to air mail. | LIVE |
B5 | But this is not what happened to a letter ……………………… by a Mr Gray in 1937. He suddenly had to leave the country to go to France and so he quickly wrote a letter to his wife to say goodbye and tell her what a wonderful wife she was. | SEND |
B6 | He must have posted the letter just before he boarded the ship that would take him to France, but sadly the ship ……………………… and Mr Gray was never seen again. | SINK |
B7 | Mrs Gray finally received the letter last week – more than sixty years after her husband ……………………… it. | WRITE |
B8 | An official explained that the letter had fallen behind a desk and it ……………………… undiscovered if the Post Office hadn’t decided to replace the old furniture. Today, Mr Gray could have sent his wife an email or a text message instead of a letter. | REMAIN |
B9 | In fact, the use of postal services for business correspondence, as well as for personal letters, ……………………… all the time. | DECLINE |
B10 | In all probability, the number of daily postal deliveries ……………………… to drop in the future. | CONTINUE |