......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…

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.

I. Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been     1     built for him. It was over 30 feet in     2     and had a 2500 horse-power engine...However, a few days     3    , he was told that a mistake     4    . His average speed had been 301 miles per hour. Since that time, racing drivers have reached speeds of over 400 miles per hour.     5     his father’s footsteps, Sir Malcolm’s son, Donald, also set up a world record.

II. They have all been put to shame by a boy     6    , while playing truant, travelled 1600 miles. He hitch-hiked to Dover and,     7     evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered     8     the boat had, in     9     meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy     10     he crept off.