GAP FILLING
The following is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary).

so/ ordinary/ common/ within/ make/ honey/ who/ plead/ electricity/ article/ machine/ thanks to/ contribute to 

     It is one of the paradoxes of civilization that the more opportunities are utilized, the more new ones are thereby created. New openings are as easy to find as ever to those ______ do their best, although it is not _______ easy as formerly to obtain great distinction in the old lines, because the standard has advanced so much, and competition has so greatly increased. "The world is no longer clay,” said Emerson, “but rather iron in the hands of its workers, and men have got to hammer out a place for themselves by steady and rugged blows.” Thousands of men have _______ fortunes out of trifles which others pass by. As the bee gets ______ from the same flower from which the spider gets poison, so some men will get a fortune out of the _______ and meanest things, as scraps of leather, cotton waste, slag, iron filings, from which others get only poverty and failure. There is scarcely a thing which ______ the welfare and comfort of humanity, scarcely an _______ of household furniture, a kitchen utensil, an article of clothing or of food, that is not capable of an improvement in which there may be a fortune. Opportunities? They are all around us. Forces of nature ______ to be used in the service of man, as lightning for ages tried to attract his attention to the great force of _______, which would do his drudgery and leave him to develop the God-given powers ______ him. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

 (from Opportunities Where You Are)