1 |
On Friday the writer walked with the read of an escapedprisoner: |
Freed
Slipped away/run away
jail-breaking
turned-out
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2 |
Yet summer holidays did come and we waited for the taxi that was to convey the family to the _________ |
seaport
airport
home
railway station
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3 |
During our early childhood Lionel, Sylvia and I never had anything to _________ |
spend
spent
spending
spends
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4 |
The few pence pocket-money, we received was to be put into a money-box and __________ |
spoilt
saved
squandered
wasted
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5 |
I wondered whether the ice-cream man would be miraculously inspired to offer me a ___________ free |
slice
cornet
piece
lump
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6 |
I often had hung on the outskirts of a crowd around _______ barrow |
a tea
a fruit
an ice cream
a peanut
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7 |
How often had I stood outside sweet drops with _________ pockets |
full
torn
no
empty
|
8 |
I bought my first bicycle with prize money I had __________ at Edinburgh University |
won
win
winning
wound
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9 |
I bought my first bicycle for myself when I was _________ |
twenty
twenty one
twenty two
twenty three
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10 |
All my early childhood I longed desperately for a _________ |
car
aeroplane
tricylcle
motorbike
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11 |
Wishes did not come __________ in this life, I knew that |
false
flopped
fail
true
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12 |
Mythical summer holidays were at hand, un-spoilt as yet, lying __________ and promising just ahead |
intact
contact
contract
exact
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13 |
I wore my summer school clothes of grey cricket shirt, grey shorts and __________ Wetson's blazer |
blue
green
red
yellow
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14 |
I would walk home across the meadows in the ________ sunshine |
April
May
June
July
|
15 |
Two months seemed a long, long time and I could look forward to a period of permanent __________ |
felicity
facility
faculty
futility
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16 |
The two month's vacation we got in summer time, and it was these months towards which the whole _________ moved |
month
year
week
century
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17 |
We got Christmas and Easter holidays, ___________weeks each in my earlier schooldays |
one
two
three
four
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18 |
There were blessed breaks in ____________ |
intervals
routine
stops
halts
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19 |
If there had been a continuous hard frost or some days we would get a whole day's __________ holiday |
fire burning
swimming
skating
camping
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20 |
Once a term we had the annual mind-term holiday, a Monday off which made a luxuriously _________ week end |
long
short
tiny
small
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