1 |
I strode off towards the little square glow of the .............stall. |
Tea
coffee
Juice
Cigarette
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2 |
Here and there rang out the steps of solitary............... on the way home across the bridge to Battersea. |
Voyagers
Travelers
Drivers
Swimmers
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3 |
There was a ___________ nip in the air. |
Hot
cold
warm
Lukewarm
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4 |
It was nearly_____ as I stepped into the street. |
Midnight
Noon
Morning
Eveniing
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5 |
I improvised a ............... stuffed the books into in put it over my shoulder, and went down the staris into the darkness. |
Bag
Handkerchief
Sack
Bubdle
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6 |
Tie them up and consign them to the.......... |
River
Rock
Lake
Jungle
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7 |
So in the end I determined to do to them what so many people do to the. |
Ducks
Kittens
Kids
Cubs
|
8 |
It is almost as hopeless to try to burn a book without opening it as to try to burn a piece of. |
sponge
Paper
granite
Chalk
|
9 |
I had no.......... range and I could not toast them on the gas cooker. |
Sitting room
Drawing room
Dining room
Kitchen
|
10 |
But how ? there were........... of them. |
Scores
Hundreds
Dozens
Thousands
|
11 |
I therefore, had to throw them away or wipe them............... the map altogether. |
of
off
on
over
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12 |
I was faced with ............ of either evicting the books or else taking rooms elsewhere for myself. |
automative
All together
Alternative
Altogether
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13 |
Books of inferiors minor................ gradually accumulated there. |
Prose
Novel
Verse
Fiction
|
14 |
I was living in a small and heaven..................... flat in chesses. |
Kissing
Bound
Kicking
downing
|
15 |
This difficulty one brought me almost within the shadow of the ........... |
Tree
Rope
wall
tower
|
16 |
They certainly die hard and it is sometimes difficult to find a .......... for them. |
Bed
Box
Scaffold
gallows
|
17 |
But it is not always easy to.......... books. |
Preserve
save
destroy
store
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18 |
Destruction not merely makes more room for new books but saves one's heirs the troubles of.............. out the rubbish or storing it. |
Sorting
Sifting
Scorching
Scouting
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19 |
It is positively a ................... duty to destroy it. |
Private
Public
government
officer's
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20 |
It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is ............. |
coloured
printed
beautiful
torn
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