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1. Parties at Bruno's house were always dominated by Grandmother's singing, which for some reason always seemed to ___________ the moment when Mother moved from the main party area to the kitchen, followed by some of her own friends.
| A．put up with | B．coincide with |
| C．come up with | D．contradict |
2. However, Mother and Father's voices were muffled and hard to___________, Grandfather's was not to be heard at all, while grandmother's was surprisingly blurred.
| A．comment on | B．make sense |
| C．make out | D．weigh up |
3. The pyjama people all jumped to attention whenever the soldiers ___________ and sometimes they fell to the ground and sometimes they didn't even get up and had to be carried away instead.
| A．assumed | B．saluted |
| C．vanished | D．approached |
4. "Poland,' said Bruno thoughtfully, ___________ the word on his tongue.
| A．weighing up | B．making up for |
| C．insisting | D．winding up |
5. An hour before the Fury ___________ Gretel and Bruno were brought downstairs, where they received a rare invitation into Father's office.
| A．soaked up the applause of the guests | B．showed off |
| C．erupted in excitement | D．was due to arrive |
6. Shmuel watched him do this and ___________ nervously. "I have to go back,' he said.
| A．phrased the question | B．backed away |
| C．shrugged his shoulders | D．steadied himself |
7. Every afternoon when classes were finished Bruno took the long walk along the fence and sat and talked with his new friend Shmuel until it was time to come home, and that had started to___________all the times he had missed Berlin.
| A．run into | B．march into |
| C．make up for | D．glare at |
8. ‘We're not close, my father and I,' said Lieutenant Kotler quickly, looking around the table as if he___________. ‘Really, we haven't spoken in years.'
| A．was particularly impressed | B．stayed rooted to the ground |
| C．felt increasingly fed up | D．owed everyone an explanation |
9. Gretel opened her mouth and stared at him before_____________. ‘An imaginary friend!' she cried. 'Aren't you a little old for an imaginary friend?'
| A．taking a deep breath | B．breaking into a laugh |
| C．exploding | D．trembling |
10. He sat in the living room for several hours but couldn't concentrate on his book and didn't dare to go back to the kitchen until later that evening, when lieutenant Kotler had already come back and ___________ Shmuel and taken him away again.
| A．collected | B．investigated |
| C．irritated | D．confirmed |
