1 |
Thinking she was in difficulties, he hastened towards her, but in doing so slipped himself and _______ his ankle |
Quenched
Pinched
Wrenched
Mended
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2 |
There came to him, stirred by the warmth of the fire and the gentle ______ of tea, a thousand tangled recollections of old time |
Coma
Comma
Lacuna
Aroma
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3 |
He had no worries, his pension was _______, and there was a little money saved up basides |
Adequate
Insufficient
Inadequate
Poor
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4 |
A decent career, ______ closed, three cheers for old Chips |
Recently
Decently
Lightly
Slightly
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5 |
About _______ after he had been at Brookfield a decade, he began to recognize that the odds were heavily against his being able to better himself by moving elsewhere |
1680
1780
1880
1980
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6 |
Brookfield, as the Wetherby had said, was an old foundation, established in the reign of ______ |
Victoria
George
Tudor
Elizabeth
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7 |
But I do believe, my dear Colley, that you are the biggest _________ of the lot |
Fool
Wiseman
Intelligent
Active
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8 |
Colley, your father was the first boy I ever _______ when I came here twenty-five years ago |
Admired
Punished
Prized
Praised
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9 |
Some dropped a desk ______, quickly, he must take everyone by surprise |
Leg
Arm
Lid
Lace
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10 |
Big Hall full of lusty ______ ready to pounce on him as their legitimate prey |
Gentlemen
Ladies
Players
Barbarians
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11 |
Give your ______ to Brookfield and Brookfield will give you something is return |
Enthusiasn
Calmness
Laziness
Dullness
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12 |
He remembered that day that day of his preliminary interview, sunny _______ |
December
July
October
September
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13 |
Rarely did he read more than a page of the novel before sleep came swiftly and _______ |
Agitatingly
Shakingly
Gingerly
Peacefully
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14 |
For he lived at Mrs. _______, just across the road from the school, he had been there more than a decade |
Winslow's
Katherine's
Wickett's
Merivale's
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15 |
When you are getting on in years, you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like _______ cattle moving across a landscape |
Lazy
Agile
Alert
Running
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16 |
The writer of the novel "Goody-Bye, Mr. Chips" is _______ |
James Joyce
James Hilton
Joyce Cary
Jane Austan
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