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Cloze Passage (4.8) Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Guarding Christmas Trees

Thieves have ____________ a major British supermarket chain store to call in a squad of army veterans. These ____________, clad in camouflage outfits and equipped with night ___________ goggles, are being employed to _________ a plot of woodland with thousands of Christmas trees. As the festive season ___________ near, the conifer trees have become more valuable. A truckload of these trees can ____________ tens of thousands of dollars. ________ by theives are well organised and stolen trees are extremely easy to _________ as there are many buyers. In previous years, truckloads of trees have ______________ stolen overnight. The soldiers have already put their army ____________ to good use by building hideouts of foliage _________ which they can survey the estate. However, the guards are ___________ strict orders not to shoot or injured the thieves. This is best left to the police.

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