Read the text below and complete each blank with the correct preposition.
What makes you lose your temper?
You think it is about time your neighbour put a new gate (1) ……… between your two gardens. Do you a) discuss the matter (2) ……….. him (3) ……….. a friendly way? b) Face him (4) ……… the disputed fence? Or c) kick the old one (5) …………?
This is not a new board game, but a question (6) ……….. researchers (7) ………. the University of Birmingham, trying to find (8) ……… why people lose their tempers. Their research shows that there are some very angry people (9) ………… . One man who had been rung up (10) ………. random had no hesitation (11) ………… answering (c). He was one of 50 people picked (12) …………. the phone book and asked what sort (13)……….. things really made them mad. The team found that, despite their calm image, Britons get upset (14) ………. the strangest things - (15) ………. men wearing polyester ties or putting creases (16) ………… their denim jeans, to people who cover their food (17) ………. tomato sauce or bus drivers who drive badly and bounce their passengers (18) …………. the stairs.
The question the researchers are now asking is: Why? And what do we do to control that anger? The work is being done (19) ..…… two clinical psychologists and far (20) ………. being a light-hearted study, it has a serious purpose. They are hoping it will provide a key to more effective treatment (21) ……….. violent criminals.
The Times
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