Free Advanced Phrases Exercise: History

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

Many people believed that the invention of penicillin would make disease the past
You can learn a lot about a country by looking at which historical and current famous people are talked about most often.
In the UK, nearly every school child knows that England was by the French in 1066.
Tony Blair will go history as the man who made 'Britannia Cool' even if it was only for a couple of months.
I've always been fascinated by animals, dinosaurs and the process of evolution. That's why whenever there's a(n) history programme on TV, I have to watch it.
Nowadays, with electric light, we can stay awake all through the night and carry on working. But in people always stopped work at sunset.
You have to keep up with modern developments. By ignoring TV and the Internet, you're just .
After six years of war, the signing of a peace treaty between the main world powers was certainly a event.
It's a historical that one hundred years ago only a tiny minority of UK inhabitants knew how to read and write.
The prime minister gave a stark warning on the dangers of not progressing. He said 'Unless you're prepared to embrace change, you're !'
Surely few inventions have changed the of history as greatly as television. Without it, the world would be a very different place today.
After their election defeat in 1987, the party leader said 'Never again!' But history has a habit of itself and four years later, they lost again.

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