......Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady     1     a tight black dress. She did not     2     look up when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes     3     on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating……

...he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused to do so. The     1     day, the patient asked for a bedside telephone. When he was     2    , he telephoned the hospital exchange and asked for Doctor Millington. When the doctor     3     the phone, Mr. Gilbert said he     4     about a certain patient…

It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river     1     as usual….The ball     2     me so hard that I nearly fell into the water. I turned to look at the children, but there weren’t any in     3    : they had all run away! I laughed.    4    I realized what had happened.

This wonderful plane can     1     seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can     2     anywhere: on snow, water. … The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a     3     island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him….

He has just     1     a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with cars and their owners….It is one of the     2     faces I have ever seen….Jasper hopes that she will turn cars and their owners to stone. But     3     of them has been turned to stone yet!

Their sleeping bags were warm and comfortable, so they all slept     1    . In the middle of the night, two boys woke up and began     2    . The tent was full of water! They all leapt out of their sleeping     3     and hurried outside... The stream wound     4     way across the field and then flowed right under the tent!

I am     1     art student and I paint a lot of pictures. Many people     2     that they understand modern art. ...My sister is only seven, but she always tells me     3     my pictures are good or not. She came into my room yesterday...

The railway station was big, black and dark. I did not know the way     1     my hotel, so I asked a porter. I not only spoke English very carefully, but very     2     as well. The porter, however, could not understand me. I repeated my question several     3     and at last he understood.

Lesson 32: … A detective recently watched a     1     woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was     2     for the detective to watch her. …

Lesson 33: Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she     3     from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat     4     a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. …On     5     at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. …

Lesson 34: Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he       6     a letter from the local police. … Ted was     7     surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was     8     twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.

Lesson 35: Roy Trenton     9     drive a taxi. …When he was driving along Catford Street recently, he saw two     10     rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. …

An ancient bus stopped by a dry river bed and a party of famous actors and     1     got off.     2     in dark glasses and old clothes, they     3     special precautions so that no one should recognize them. But as they soon discovered, disguises can sometimes be too perfect. …‘It couldn’t be     4    , Gloria,’ Brinksley Meers agreed.

Snow     5     thick on the ground. The woman knew that the     6     village was miles away. When it grew dark, she turned a suitcase     7     a bed and put the children inside it,     8     them with all the clothes she could find. During the night, it got     9     cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case     10    , but it was too small.