Praising and criticising

Exercise 60.1

For this young violinist, Nuria Shilov, her performance ends with a (1) ovation and (2) applause. Her playing has received critical (3) in the last year in her home country, and now her talent has been recognised by an international audience.

Now the President of the National Badminton Federation (4) congratulates Wang Shih-Ping on his (5) deserved victory in this year’s tournament. His skilful playing has (6) a lot of praise from commentators, though he personally refuses to (7) full credit for his achievements, and (8) credit instead to his manager, Karla Ennaise.

Well, the team manager is ecstatic and is at this moment making a speech (9) the praises of the captain, Blake Samson, and the rest of the team. And there is no doubt that they (10) deserve all this praise for such a remarkable victory.

So, at the end of this week’s quiz, the blue team have won. Let me (11) my congratulations to you all. You’ll be coming back next week. And let’s give the losers a (12) of applause. The red team also played a great game.