Direction: Read the following text. Choose
the best word or phrase for each numbered blank.
… It is 1 believed 2 had the Germans
succeeded 3 their aim of destroying the
RAF, they would have been able to invade Britain 4
easily. This was, after all, at a time when the country was the
only European 5 resisting Nazi Germany,
even though she 6 enjoy massive support
from 7 Commonwealth partners.
A plan to use the German Air Force as the prelude
8 the invasion of the UK had been discussed in 1939, and
was at first rejected. 9 , in view of
the strength of the Royal Navy, the Germans did 10
decide they had to 11 the RAF first. They had won convincingly in the Polish campaign in 1939 and
the Scandinavian and French campaigns in 1940, but they were now up 12 a well-organized air defense system, and
things were going to be more 13 for
them. The British, 14 the other hand, over-estimated German strength and
15 . This was worrying, but not something that would lose
them the battle, and they also had a new 16 —radar— to help direct the fighters to 17
attacking German aircraft. 18
, the British were starting to get 19
from intercepting German communications, having 20 the Enigma code system.
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