......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.