Write the most appropriate word in each blank.

Where you need a number or a year to complete a

blank, look at the table below, on which the close text is based :
Road accidents 1980-1992 :
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
50 150 100 75 90 45 30 180 140 70 110 55 40

The number of road accidents in the town went up and down several times during the period 1980-
1992. From just 50 in 1980, it (1) to three times as many 1 in (2), before falling by one-third in the
(3) year. In 1983 it decreased by (4) but 2 increased to 90 in 1984. (5) the next two years it declined
(6), probably because the price of gas (7) up and so people used their (8) less; there were 45
accidents in (9) and only 30 in 1986. Unfortunately, (10) the cost of gas dropped again, (11) number
of accidents went up to (12) in 1987; however, it fell by (13) the following year and then (14) a
further 70 in 1989. There (15) an increase again in 7 1990 to (16) mainly because there was more
(17) in the town, but the figure (18) 8 in 1991 and went down (19) 40 in 1992. Adding up these
figures, we (20) that the total number of accidents over the 13-year period was 1,135.