About ten minutes

46. Complete the following sentence: He had been verger for 16 years and …

Liked his job

47. Complete the following sentence: Martin decided to begin writing when he …

Comes back

48. Complete the following sentence: The room was familiar enough. It had been his for over … ….

Eighteen years

49. Complete the following sentence: … wondered what would happen when his money was spent.

His relations were shocked

50. Complete the following sentence: The Ramsays were …

Respectable people

51. Complete the following sentence: Delia was taking piano lessons from the great Rosenstock, and he was taking a lot of money from …

Delia

52. Complete the following sentence: Only person the author knew in Boston was …

Miss Bennet

53. Complete the following sentence: He remained attentive to all her wishes, he took her to dine at restaurants. … … he was charming.

He sent her flowers

54. These sentences are from the text: Jesse felt ready to weep. He was waiting me for Tom. Tom was his brother-in-law. Jesse knew he looked terrible.

“The Happiest Man of Earth”

55. He was not well, and he was nervous. And he was unreasonably disturbed about the cage. The main character of the text is …

Anderson

56. He thought for a minute or two. The main character of the text is …

Lavington

57. Alec Barr looked briefly at the boy. “Somebody throws some water on him”, he said coldly to the seamen. And he went up to his room to clean his cuts. These sentences are from the text…

“A Foul Play” by Ruark

58. Complete the following sentence: Hunger and misery … terrible there. And the … … beating people who protested, or stole, or begged.

Were police were

59. He borrowed large sums from a man named…

Haley

60. Complete the following sentence: Jerry … and … let the car go and the drum began to go round and round.

Slowly/ carefully

61. So it was that standing in a far corner I had an opportunity of noticing something of this up – to-date manager’s methods with his real customers. These sentences are from the text…

“The Reading public”

62. Complete the sentence: The …returned to his room about half past five in the morning and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down and the door shut.

Stranger

63. He picked up his cases and walked to the barrier at the far end of the platform where the ticket collector impatiently…

Waited for him

64. I knew that Gavin adored his father and I had heard whispers that all was not well with the…

Mayor’s business

65. Complete the sentence: At last I came…

To a big hotel

66. Complete the sentence: His face was very white and there were dark areas …