Below is an extract from The Old Wives’ Tales. Choose the correct word to fill in each blank to make a sensible paragraph.
Most of us are ….1…. of our great grandmothers’ faith in red flannel as a(n) ….2… for coughs and bronchitis when worn ……3…. The chest, but in some area a ….4…. of brown paper, rubbed with tallow candle, is ….5….to have similar healing powers. An ….6…. belief goes : …..7….. throats could be …..8…. by removing the left stocking and ….9…. it round the neck, the foot of the stocking next to the throat, and then going to bed. By morning, all the trouble would disappears.