While in the army there was nothing I disliked so much as the map-reading course, for the simple reason that I always felt  1 even with a map in my hand. For weeks I had__2  awake at night thinking of the  3  test I would have to face at the end of the course. 4  the evil day arrived. It was my responsibility to lead a small band of soldiers back to camp from the middle of 5  . We were driven out in a(n)  6 lorry and left in a ploughed field with  7  to get back to camp as quickly as possible.