Question

[Ghost England]

I. Rend the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks.

arrange	invented	later	first	on
instead	from	was	crossword	horizontal

          Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name (1) _____________ switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped, and the name became (2) _____________.

          Wynne based his crossword puzzle (3)_____________ a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated (4) _____________Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to (5)_____________ them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down.

          A crossword puzzle is very similar, except (6) _____________ of being given the words the player is given clues.

          Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle was diamond-shaped, he later invented (7) _____________and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne (8)_____________ the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.

          The crossword puzzle in a British publication (9)_____________published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The (10) _____________New York Times crossword was published on February 1, 1930.

Answer 1

[Trần Ái Linh]

1. later

2. crossword

3. on

4.from

5. arrange 

6. instead

7. horizontal

8. invented

9. was

10. first

Answer 2

[Aurora]

Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name (1) _____later________ switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped, and the name became (2)crossword

 Wynne based his crossword puzzle (3)______on_______ a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated (4) _____from________Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to (5)_______arrange______ them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down.

          A crossword puzzle is very similar, except (6) ____instead_________ of being given the words the player is given clues.

          Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle was diamond-shaped, he later invented (7) ________horizontal_____and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne (8)________invented_____ the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.

          The crossword puzzle in a British publication (9)_______was______published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The (10) ______first _______New York Times crossword was published on February 1, 1930.