1 |
He did not want to talk to any body or to receive condolences. |
sympathies
Guests
Messages
Visitors
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2 |
He is too cocksure of himself. |
Proud
over confident
Insolent
Energetic
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3 |
But she had not always pleaded for leniency. |
Mercy
Mistreatment
Punishment
Generosity
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4 |
One black sheep can contaminate others. |
spoil
Terminate
Pollute
Mislead
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5 |
Elder brother of Fleming was a qualified oculist |
surgeon
Eye specialist
Heart specialist
Ear specialist
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6 |
Injecting carbolic acid into the blood was tried, and quickly abandoned for it did more harm than good. |
Adopted
Abdicated
given up
Pushed up
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7 |
I fervently hoped, an air of rumination and unconcern. |
Meditation
Carelessness
Termination
Engagement
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8 |
I improvised a sack. |
Arranged
Supervised
Prepared
Collected
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9 |
But most people, especially non bookish people, are very reluctant to thrown anything that look like a book. |
Ready
Un willing
Afraid
Un happy
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10 |
Your fate is perhaps worse than you.............. |
Deserved
Reserved
Conserved
Served
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11 |
Your fate is perhaps.............. than you deserved. |
Bad
Worse
Good
Worst
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12 |
You lie there in a living............. and your fate is perhaps worse than you deserved. |
Life
Health
Death
Joy
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13 |
Books are lying there with only a stray rag, sticking out of the slime into the opaque brown............. |
Tides
Toads
Toasts
Tights
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14 |
Horrible bad books, poor....................... books, you are lying there still. |
Criminal
Innocent
At fault
Culprit
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15 |
Books were there to lie fortorn and forgotten whilst the unconscious world of.................. went on. |
<sub>Animals</sub>
Birds
Men
Beats
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16 |
As I walked I thought a little sadly of all those books falling into that cold. |
Ice
snow
torrent
Air
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17 |
No one came, I turned..................... |
Home
House
Shop
Market
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18 |
A vast splash, then................... fell again |
Noise
Silence
Thud
Clamour
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19 |
With the courage of despair I took a heave, the sack........... sheer. |
Flew
Gilded
Dropped
Drops
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20 |
Good"God: You worm, better men than you have gone to the................. |
Gully
Glove
Gallows
Garbage
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