Test XI

1. If you wandered down the little path on __ May evening after__ dinner it was just as though the shrubs had sweated in the air. (D. du Maurier)

2. There was __ full moon, low-hanging and veined with orange. (K. Saunders)

3. In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O’Brian came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and __ young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in the war, and Mr Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters and Mr P. Jewett, once __ head of __ American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip, with __ man reputed to be her chauffeur, and __ prince of something, whom we called __ Duke, and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. __ careful silence surrounded Mason Verger. (Th. Harris)

5. She refused to stop believing in __ essential, sweet Ralph of her childhood. (K. Saunders)

6. You were born at __ wrong time, in __ wrong place. (S. Sheldon)

7. Thirty minutes later, Lara’s secretary said, “There’s __ Mr. Hershey on line two, Miss Cameron.” (S. Sheldon)

8. Dr Anderson’s team is following up this suggestion with __ great energy. (S. Fry)

9. I intend to become __ most important real estate developer in this city. (S. Sheldon)

10. “Heavens no! Just __ friendly dinner!” (H. Fielding)

11. I see now that it wouldn’t have been hard, but she was __ wise nineteen and she must have seen that we were emotionally incompatible. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. He was like __ sponge, erasing __ past, soaking up __ future. (S. Sheldon)

13. He only writes about degenerates. I mean __ worthwhile English. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. But Percy and Kismine seemed to have inherited __ arrogant attitude in all its harsh magnificence from their father. __ chaste and consistent selfishness ran like a pattern through their every idea. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. As I lay in__ bed with __ moonlight coming through the window and hearing __ sound of __ sea breaking on __ shore, all these problems seemed overpowering until I took a look at them. (J.H. Chase)

16. He found her blue Ford Escort in __ car park. __ vehicle was locked and __ lights were off.

17. Carlos, __ assistant manager, saw her and came running to her side. (S. Sheldon)

18. The trip to London was uneventful. The private 727 she had purchased took off in the morning and landed at __ Magec Terminal at __ Luton Airport outside London. (S. Sheldon)

19. On Thursday he came in sight of Myra’s house, on the half-hour after five, __ lateness which he fancied his mother would have favoured. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. __ man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like __ watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good. (H.L. Mencken)

Test XII

1. __ good memory and __ tongue tied in __ middle is a combination which gives immortality to __ conversation. (M. Twain)

2. __ past is incredibly difficult to leave behind. (K. Saunders)

3. It was __ beastly January morning, with __ dirty yellowish-grey sky. (G. Orwell)

4. Sam Roffe, __ president of Roffe and Sons, __ second largest pharmaceutical company in the world, a multibillion-dollar dynasty that girdled __ globe. (S. Sheldon)

5. Theirs was __ brief beauty. (D. du Maurier)

6. I think you are __ most wonderful person I ever met – except my mother. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. “I’m not hungry,” Lara said stubbornly. “I had __ big breakfast.” (S. Sheldon)

8. I don’t think __ real love is ever tragic. Or wrong. (K. Saunders)

9. It was a colony of __ young, simple, and expensive. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. How do I know this is __ REAL Max Friedlander. (M. Gabot)

11. You are __ only person who had any influence over him. (W.S. Maugham)

12. __ old, pre-marital nervousness seized Mr. Charlton. (H.E. Bates)

13. __ afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them __ deep memory for __ long parting __ next day promised. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. She remembered her father, seeing her off at __ Cork Airport after her last visit home. (K. Saunders)

15. While I slept my problems and my fears sat at __ foot of __ bed, waiting to greet me when I awake. (J.H. Chase)

16. And Sir Alec Nichols, whose mother had been __ Roffe. (S. Sheldon)

17. Gerda took me to __ Tate Gallery yesterday. (K. Saunders)

18. When he came into a room clad in his full purple regalia from __ thatch to __ toe, he resembled __ Turner sunset, and attracted both __ admiration and __ attention. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. “Look!” she pointed and they gazed in__ horror. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. __ man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. (M. Twain)