Friday the Thirteenth
Most British sailors have a superstition that Friday is an unlucky day, and Friday the 13th – particularly so. There is a legend about how the British Admiralty decided to expose the absurdity of this notion 30 ______. Most likely, it is untrue, but it doesn’t stop the sailors from religiously believing in it.
Sometime in the 1800s, as the story 31 ______, the Royal Navy decided to demonstrate the falseness of the belief that beginning a voyage on Friday would bring you bad luck. They commissioned a ship and named it the HMS Friday. Her keel was laid on a Friday, she was launched on a Friday, and she 32 ______ sail on her maiden voyage on Friday the 13th, under the command of Captain James Friday. She was never 33 ______ or heard from again.
As you can imagine, the Admiralty has consistently 34 ______ the truth of this story. They claim there has never been a Royal Navy ship named Friday, or any other day of the week, 35 ______.
But the Navy’s claims are unimportant because generations of British seamen have 36 ______ every word of the story as true. It confirms their superstition and superstition cannot be overcome by logic.
| 30. | 1) once and for all | 2) forever and again | 3) once and forever | 4) once and again |
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| 31. | 1) talks | 2) moves | 3) speaks | 4) goes |
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| 32. | 1) set | 2) put | 3) spread | 4) started |
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| 33. | 1) watched | 2) seen | 3) looked | 4) gazed |
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| 34. | 1) refused | 2) declined | 3) disagreed | 4) denied |
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| 35. | 1) no matter | 2) no matter what | 3) for that matter | 4) to make matters worse |
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| 36. | 1) admitted | 2) accepted | 3) excepted | 4) dismissed |
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