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Actually it’s not.

Fill the gaps goes way further than an open end.

Here is an example of fill the gaps. That won’t work with an open end.

Read the text below and decide which answers A, B, C, or D best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
0 A hoped B considered C expected D intended
HOSPITALITY
Hospitality – looking after visitors – is universal, but in different cultures hosts are (0) ……C………. to receive guests in different ways.
In much of the ancient (1) ……………. it was the custom to provide passing travelers with food and water, and (2) ……………. after them well. Indeed in some regions, if visitors were in the middle of a long (3) ……………. Servants would wash their feet.
Today, some old customs have (4) ……………. . In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a (5) ……………. Object in the house, the host will give it to the guest straightaway. And it is still (6) ……………. in parts of Russia to greet guests with bread and salt on a special cloth. The guest is (7) ……………. to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks (8) …………… a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.
In some countries, when (9) ……………. guests arrive from abroad they may feel they have been given a particularly (10) ……………. meal. But this is probably because the host politely (11) ……………. offering more food and drink, and the guest is too embarrassed to (12) ……………. anything down.