Fill in the correct word form derived from the word in bold:

1. Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignant.

2. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathy.

3. A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intend of the giver or doer.

4. From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no collection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

5. If you cannot work with love but only with tasteful, it is better that you should leave your work.

6. In social life, in public life, or in modern business, it is significant that friendy pays the biggest dividends.

7. No right can come by conquer, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

8. I have made a cease effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

9. Respond intelligent even to intelligent treatment.

10. Nothing is so tolerance to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

11. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the power against the powerful.

12. Fortune knocks but once, but fortune has much more patience.

Choose a synonym from a list to replace the italicized words and word combinations:

utmost; in easy circumstances; make one’s way to; an end; to torment; to disturb;

far-fetched; as mad as a hatter; make up his mind; vagaries; cast a spell over/on; to solace; make head or tail of .

1. I’m afraid he’s decided quite not to return.

2. He seems to me to be possessed by some power which is using him for its own goals

3. I devised an explanation which I acknowledged to be unlikely, but which was the only one that in any way satisfied me.

4. I comforted myself by thinking that it would be useful for me.

5. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their whims

6. He is as helpless as a fly in a spider’s web. It’s as though someone had enchanted him.

7. I think now he was blind to everything but to some unsettling vision in his soul.

8. “He must be totally mad,” exclaimed the Colonel.

9. The MacAndrews were childless and financially secure.

10. It was quite clear that she could not understand my speech.

11. I wondered if there was anything I could say that would ease the sense of bitter humiliation which at present tortured Mrs. Strickland.

12. “What do you mean?” cried Mrs. Strickland, with the utter astonishment.

13. I paid for what we had drunk, and we left for a cheap restaurant, crowded and gay, where we dined with pleasure.

Fill each gap with a proposition:

1. I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew [ ] least would have thought well [ ] me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit [ ] the same table with a man [ ] such character.

2. The certainty that my sentiments would be lost [ ] Strickland made it peculiarly embarrassing to utter them.

3. I could not struggle against his indifference though he said nothing [ ] any consequence, there was something in his personality which prevented him [ ] being dull.

4. I can never walk its streets without feeling myself [ ] the verge [ ] adventure.

5. But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize [ ] this dull stockbroker, [ ] his own ruin, perhaps, and [ ] the misfortune of such as were dependent [ ] him.

6. She tried to talk [ ] him, partly [ ] signs, partly in pidgin French, which, [ ] some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible [ ] him.

7. I could not imagine that she would be content [ ] me; I was not content [ ] myself.

8. Conversion may come [ ] many shapes, and it may be brought [ ] in many ways.

9. I could not find out how this had arisen, but, singularly enough, it created much sympathy [ ] Mrs. Strickland, and [ ] the same time gave her not a little prestige.

10. There was a pause while they reflected [ ] my words.