A. Reading comprehension

Read our article about Jamaica on pages 27-30 of English Now No 101. Then drag and drop the words below into the correct spaces to complete the sentences, which are adapted from the article.
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  1. Jamaica’s official language is English, but it also has a second language, called
    ______
    .
  2. Reggae evolved in Jamaica in the late 1960s from
    ______
    , and became popular internationally through Bob Marley.
  3. Dancehall is an
    ______
    style of dance music.
  4. Jamaica gave the world the popular cooking technique
    ______
    .
  5. This requires meat to be
    ______
    or marinated in a mixture of hot spices.
  6. At Christmas, Jamaicans decorates their streets with lights they call ‘
    ______
    lights’.
  7. For breakfast on Christmas Day, they eat ackee & saltfish,
    ______
    and boiled banana.
  8. Ackee & saltfish is made of ackee fruit and salt
    ______
    .
  9. Later, at dinnertime, they drink the rum-based drink
    ______
    .
  10. Jamaica is 10,990 square kilometres and is divided into 14
    ______
    .

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