Jazz - One Word Too Many

Gap-fill exercise

Read the text about a famous American coin. In most sentences, there is a word that shouldn't be there. Write that word in the yellow space at the end of each line. If the line is correct, write "OK".   You have two examples at the beginning.


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1 On Tuesday Washington celebrated the release OK
2 of a special new money coin. The American quarter money
3 (25 cents) shows a drawing of the jazz legend man
4 Duke Ellington.It is the first time while a famous
5 black American is not shown on an American coin.
6 Another coin, made out in 2003 shows the image
7 of a Black slave. Like many great Americans
8 Duke Ellington was ever a symbol of American
9 talent and hard work. He was born in Washington
10 in 1899 and started to get interested himself in
11 music at an early of age. He took his first piano
12 lessons at the age of seven and in 1923 when
13 he moved to New York City because he thought
14 he never had a greater chance as a musician
15 there. Critics and other musicians they quickly  
16 saw that Duke was a big talent.People who
17 around the world got interested in his music.
18 He became known such as one of the fathers of
19 jazz music era. Although he stayed in New York he
20  often returned back to Washington for 
21  performances. Ellington won a total of 13 Grammy
22

 awards.