Tests for self-control Test I

1. It was __ heady experience. (S. Sheldon)

2. When Pop drew up the Rolls outside __ Hotel Beau Rivage at half past six in __ evening of the last day of August a gale was raging in from __ Atlantic that made even the sturdy blue fishing boats in the most sheltered corners of the little port look like a battered wreckage of half-drowned match-stalks. (H.E. Bates)

3. There was __ awkwardness between us that could not be ignored. (D. du Maurier)

4. Sam Roffe was __ last person to whom he could turn. (S. Sheldon)

5. It was nine o’clock when we finished __ breakfast and went out on the porch. __ night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was __ autumn flavour in the air. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. “I’m __ head of the department and ….” (S. Sheldon)

7. This was __ real love, this warm peace and fulfillment… (K. Saunders)

8. I know __ Far East. (D. du Maurier)

9. There was __ silence as they listened to __ rain. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. In other words, she’s __ woman. (S. Sheldon)

11. I always thought this __ most attractive room. (D. du Maurier)

12. It was __ perfect night, with __ bright full moon and __ soft summer breeze. (S. Sheldon)

13. You went to war as a gentleman should, just as you went to__ school and __ college, because it was the thing to do. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. She had __ dinner meeting that evening with __ banker from Texas. (S. Sheldon)

15. Elizabeth realized that in Rio it was __ summer. (S. Sheldon)

16. He sat down on __ bed. (S. Sheldon)

17. Without those experiences you wouldn’t be __ Kelly I love so much. (P. Jordan)

18. “Excuse me, love.” It was __ northern English accent. (H. Fielding)

19. It gave me __ curious satisfaction, it acted upon me like a stimulant. (D. du Maurier)

20. I’ll take __ lemonade!... In a dirty glass! (N. Panama and Melvin Frank)

Test II

1. Men have an extraordinary erroneous opinion of their position in__ nature; and __ error is ineradicable. (W.S. Maugham)

2. There was __ breathless silence. (K. Saunders)

3. I promise to tell __ truth, __ whole truth and nothing but __ truth.

4. But he was not __ man to let __ thing drop when he had set his mind to it. (W.S. Maugham)

5. For __ unwary, the boulevard was full of menace. (J.H. Chase)

6. After __ good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. (O. Wilde)

7. My wife, __ editor of __ magazine with __ massive circulation. How fantastic is that? I’m really proud of you, babe. (M. Gayle)

8. He stretched out his arms to __ crystalline, radiant sky. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. The thing to do was for him to come to __ jail with her at once to get Dick out. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. He … turned to have __ last look at the enchanted window above.

11. He had died of __ heart attack three days earlier. (S. Sheldon)

12. For one second he had been __ Maxim of another year, and I had been Rebecca. (D. du Maurier)

13. She suddenly realized why __ English so loved their tea. (H. Fielding)

14. He thinks I’m __ most wonderful girl in the world. (W.S. Maugham)

15. My father has a diamond bigger than __ Ritz-Carlton Hotel. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. It is __ warm fall night after a rain. (Th. Harris)

17. I should remember the rose garden in__ summer, and the birds that sang at __ dawn. (D. du Maurier)

18. He had a bungalow out at __ Palm Bay. (J.H. Chase)

19. The evening gathers now and the street is empty, the fan pattern of the cobbles shining in __ winter drizzle not cold enough to kill the smell of cats. (Th. Harris)

20. Manderley had come alive in __ fashion I would not have believed possible. (D. du Maurier)