1. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] n a doorbell. I pushed my finger through the mosquito _____ and one of those enormous jungle rats bit it o! You'r [002] ere. I'm glad I didn't push my whole hand through the _____ . There are all sorts of snakes and insects and wild [003] the figure is the first authoritative estimate of the _____ annual flow of illegal Mexican workers into the Unite [004] more such material for release but also casting its _____ wider. Duplications are to be expected in documentati [005] i shop, where my data would flow by satellite to the _____ , while I smoked some Shiva- weed with the resident yo [006] ue,' said Glenn Cohen, president of New Jersey-based _____ /Tech International Inc., adding that the system of c [007] ppearance, and she was so excited she skipped to the _____ after match point. The Women's National Basketball [008] as well, since I must keep my hair tied up in a hair- _____ held together with pins, which supposedly keeps my [009] ight they had candles for light. They had no fishing _____ , but they had a piece of string they used as a fishin [010] industry earned pounds 1bn for the UK in 1993 and a _____ surplus of pounds 517m. 3 The British Council operate [011] the general subsidy. Education is already reckoned to _____ Britain pounds 9bn a year; plans afoot include a big [012] n a doorbell. I pushed my finger through the mosquito _____ and one of those enormous jungle rats bit it o! You'r [013] ere. I'm glad I didn't push my whole hand through the _____ . There are all sorts of snakes and insects and wild 2. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] ke Celine, the French dancer. But finally, bitter and _____ with my wasted life, I returned to Thornfield on a f [002] aid anything, and she always turned sadly away like a _____ child. No doubt he would have given the world to cal [003] ss Oliver?' I asked after a moment. 'She may be very _____ if you don't marry her.' I 'Miss Oliver will forget [004] was entirely empty. 'So that's the secret weapon! It _____ the War office people, as it won't explode. Now they' [005] IV who plays a good game. We play by radio. He'll be _____ that you won't be able to take over from me. However, [006] who had hoped they would stay much longer, was quite _____ to see them come back in such a short time. Mr Colli [007] Society, I confess, is necessary to me. I have been a _____ man, you see. I did not intend to join the army at a [008] the red coats gathered there, she was surprised and _____ to see he was not present. She had never doubted he w [009] who had been sure her husband supported her, was very _____ . 'What do you mean, Mr Bennet? You promised me you wo [010] d for him. You have left him poor, and dependent, and _____ . You have done all this! And you can still treat the [011] a large part of her early life 'there. Elizabeth was _____ , but accepted the new plan at once. Although it was i [012] aection and wishes might still be the same. She was _____ , however, by the visit. Mr Darcy said scarcely anythi [013] re for the Chinese New Year holiday. Mr Rodriguez was _____ . Hu was his star pupil in biology. Hu said nothing wh [014] hy didn't you tell us about this?' Hu's father looked _____ . 'I'm sorry. I... I forgot. It's not important. I don [015] suitcase is lost. The journey was quite diicult. I'm _____ that I can't understand English people better. Now I' [016] greglio!' .' 'Oh, I see,' I replied, feeling a little _____ . But I said yes. Of course I said yes. Why would I sa [017] t was a thick wall. There was no way out of the room. _____ , I lay down on the bed on my back with my hands behin [018] ust wouldn't be fair.' 'Oh,' I said, feeling bitterly _____ . And a little annoyed, if I'm honest. After all, what [019] rder. I'll have to try later from Belize City.' I was _____ , and I'm sure it showed. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'Eve [020] but unable to keep my voffice from sounding flat and _____ . It would have been so much easier to keep an eye on [021] ifer's eyes and knew she was feeling just as hurt and _____ as I was. So I spoke to her over Ian's shoulder. 'I'm [022] she was saying. It was obvious to me that she was as _____ about Tan as I was. I still couldn't believe it. He'd [023] you both.' Chapter 7 Danger in Atlanta Scarlett was _____ when Ashley was not a better businessman than Hugh El [024] e said, 'All right. If my husband agrees.' Frank was _____ when the baby did not change Scarlett, but she was d [025] hen a second day passed without news of him, she was _____ and afraid. Had he been in an accident? After the sec 3. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] was far beyond my reach. The energy of my youth had _____ and attracted her. Now she was tired of it and of me. [002] wife and five daughters all at the same time. Having _____ himself for some time with their curiosity, he finall [003] ee?' Elizabeth had great diiculty in pretending to be _____ by the letter. It was necessary to laugh, when she wo [004] but she was surprised to see that he seemed a little _____ by this. thought she and Mrs Weston were match making [005] e, but she was surprised to see that he seemed little _____ by the idea. I like Jane Fairfax, of' course. But I h [006] her about it. She did . not believe it at all and was _____ by the idea so he said no more, but it worried him. I [007] ett and Hugh. The Yankee captain followed them, half- _____ but suspecting something, too. 'Oh, Ashley, I'm asham [008] med to eat and drink following her orders. But Marian _____ us. We laughed at each other, and we all enjoyed the [009] ained about the senator's body. Uncle Johnny was not _____ . Then he explained about telling Jerome Cliord. 'So [010] phic series, Gainor was delighted.' Donleavy was not _____ by the manner of his book's publication, however, and [011] about her essays. She would, I think, have been both _____ and pleased by the event. She was praised to the ski [012] ut sometimes I helped Miss Matty in the shop and was _____ to watch her. She would never make a success of selli [013] 'You're quite a girl, aren't you?' Mark said with an _____ smile from his corner. 'What's your name?' 'Nicola [014] d never met such lazy people as Harris and me. That _____ Harris. 'George! Work!' he laughed. 'If George worked [015] nt stories we had heard about his fish. He was2 very _____ and we all laughed about it. And then he told us the [016] ing his newspaper by the time he got on the bus so he _____ himself by reading the dierent notices on the windows [017] olite and always telling the truth, and Rogers often _____ himself by asking questions which Parkins found diicu [018] said. Catherine had no answer ready. She wanted to be _____ , as her father was [019] , as her father was _____ , but she also wanted to be a little sharp, so that h [020] lled all over the world, lived in foreign countries, _____ himself. He has recently come back to America, and he [021] s I will,' said the Doctor. R Doctor Sloper was more _____ than annoyed by the idea of Mr Townsend courting his [022] ound his study for a while, a little annoyed but also _____ . My word,' he said to himself. I believe she will go [023] law, and he told Mrs Almond that he was now no longer _____ by Catherine, only annoyed. She will never give Mr [024] ng unnatural about Phil Resch -it's me. Resch seemed _____ . It's love,' he said. Some of them are really pretty. [025] enjoyed the walk around the stables. At first he was _____ . The place looked too pretty to be real. There were f 4. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] ion was. She put the book away and took out paper and _____ . She wrote down a number of figures in the way that D [002] was waiting. It looked like a huge, isolated, silver _____ standing on end. Near its point she could see the bri [003] d found the date. It was Friday 15th June. With a red _____ I drew a line under the date while the other boys wat [004] writing paper, and the drawings on it were done with _____ . They looked like this. Holmes looked at the paper fo [005] On the table near the window someone had sharpened a _____ . There were several fresh small pieces of wood that h [006] fresh small pieces of wood that had been cut from the _____ on the table. The person had tried to copy the paper [007] erson had tried to copy the paper so quickly that his _____ had broken. There was a broken piece of black [008] had broken. There was a broken piece of black _____ lead on the table, too. 'And this is not all. I have [009] n't think so.' 'He wrote so quickly that he broke his _____ . You see, he had to sharpen it again. Look at these [010] harpen it again. Look at these little pieces from the _____ . The outside part of the [011] . The outside part of the _____ was blue. You can see part of the maker's name on it. [012] maker's name on it.' Holmes held up a small piece of _____ with the letters NN on it.' 'What is this NN? It is t [013] s a famous maker of pencils. So, it is a Johann Faber _____ we are looking for. And now let us look at your desk [014] niversity with Gilchrist. As he was drawing, Holmes's _____ broke, and he had to borrow a [015] broke, and he had to borrow a _____ from 11. 7- Gilchrist. After a few minutes we left an [016] writing a book. Again, the same thing happened to his _____ and he borrowed one from this student, too. When we [017] we found, and also the small pieces of wood from the _____ Good night.' Hohnes goes shopping As we walked away, [018] In each shop, Holmes showed them the little pieces of _____ in each shop it was the same. They had never sold a [019] in each shop it was the same. They had never sold a _____ like that in their shop. Holmes did not seem to be w [020] Smith. Ah - and also Mr Smith, in ink please, not in _____ . The computer doesn't like [021] . The computer doesn't like _____ . Says he can't read it. *** Interviewer: John, I k [022] *** Teacher: Excuse me, would you stop tapping your _____ on your desk, please. Student: Oh - I'm sorry, Miss! [023] mily! And something else. I always put a mark with my _____ next to the word I look up. Then, if I look up the s [024] checks, for example, how well a child can control a _____ and his or her vocabulary and reading skills. Knowing [025] dham was no closet scholar unable to sharpen his own _____ . He was a laboratory scientist with a mastery of ref 5. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] sday, it will be for the sole purpose of deciding the _____ of a 19th- century building, a landmark in the commun [002] be them, we are wrong. They are the start. As sure as _____ , they are coming our way. I: David Attenborough's t [003] inity with Burma, described as a country 'injured by _____ '. But her character also contains an element of criti [004] was so far away from home. Whereas by some quirk of _____ , other people doing English lived out in flat- and h [005] Tripp notes, 'suffer, inevitably, the quintessential _____ of their characters'. With that pearl, Chabon has got [006] concentration camps'. A single paragraph about 'The _____ of the Polish Jews' was immediately followed by anot [007] rs, men who would fight the FLN guerrillas and whose _____ , often as not, was what the French called 'the Kabyle [008] of life! I was no longer young, and I knew that his _____ , like mine, was written in large letters on the face [009] ife, always bravely, always without hesitating, and _____ had brought him friends, love, adventure. But it seem [010] and customs, and the great Sultan who controlled the _____ of all who lived there. But now the pepper has all go [011] was in my eyes, I couldn't see him well - it was my _____ never to see him clearly - but I must say he looked v [012] hings, which had given him control over his life and _____ , had also made him a prisoner. He looked with an owne [013] And now she spoke to me, desperate to know what her _____ would be. I was deeply touched by her helplessness; [014] really cared about, had at last taken control of his _____ . He had told me he was - almost happy with what he'd [015] ough you did not agree that he was in control of his _____ . Well, you must judge for yourself now. Here is Jim' [016] ked up at him with disappointed eyes. 'Perhaps it's _____ ...' 'Nonsense! There's no such thing!' 'Don't you be [017] nsense! There's no such thing!' 'Don't you believe in _____ ?' 'No! Look, when can we meet again?' he asked urgent [018] ure has already been decided by God, or the gods, or _____ , or whatever people call it. That's what the Ancient [019] elieve, sir?' 'Me? Well, I certainly don't believe in _____ . But it's quite clear that Anne Scott did. She even [020] e that Michael's birthday was that day, October 2nd! _____ was cruel to Anne.' 'I thought you didn't believe in [021] was cruel to Anne.' 'I thought you didn't believe in _____ , sir.' Morse went on without answering. 'The king had [022] e me, were no use to her. So she began to think that _____ was against her. She had been reading the Oedipus st [023] een having sex with, and who had made her pregnant. _____ wanted her to die. She felt she wasn't strong enough [024] ie. She felt she wasn't strong enough to fight against _____ , and so, my old friend, she chose Queen Jocasta's d [025] But he had a question to ask. 'Do you still think _____ is nonsense, sir?' 'Of course I do!' replied Morse cr 6. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] lobe. How can I describe this terrible world? It is a _____ and shadowy place, although it is not night time. Wh [002] 's constant complaints that Longbourn had become very _____ . Fortunately, she was able to look forward to a trip [003] e's going back early, to go back to work. Caroline is _____ , [004] , _____ , [005] , _____ , and Ian is far too good for her. What he needs is s [006] lot better for Mum too. As it is, Mum's life is very _____ ; I know it is. She can't walk far, and I'm at the pub [007] tipova. Tonya believed that her simple ways must look _____ compared to Lara's many sensational adventures. She h [008] already taken place. Many of his old friends seemed _____ and colourless. Without their large houses and lots o [009] g and - it must be said, and often is - comparatively _____ Argeo Paul Cellucci, the longtime Lieutenant Governo [010] loor, while thumbing through back issues of dishwater- _____ trade publications, I came across this headline: " M. [011] l engineer. Imperial has a reputation for being a bit _____ - all scientists together. The college magazine says [012] ck to the Northeast, but not Morpeth - it's small and _____ . Sophie Philipson, 21 graduating with a BA Hons in En [013] s already bored. The weather was bad, the people were _____ , and the amusements of London seemed as exciting as a [014] he correct way to behave, she said. So our group was _____ and quiet. Mrs Jamieson fell asleep. Finally, the cur [015] le? Oh dear, would we have to choose between visiting _____ Mrs Jamieson and bright Lady Glenmire? Next time we [016] n the breakfast table. One was to me from my father a _____ , businessman's letter. There were unpleasant reports [017] polite little laugh. I'm afraid you'd Find it rather _____ , Rogers. You don't play golf, do you?' No. Very bori [018] well behaved and polite; others thought she was just _____ . But Catherine was not someone people spent much time [019] ve when I finish?' Yes,' Iran answered. Her eyes were _____ and expressionless. I haven't told you yet!' He coul [020] ith a sense of being useful for the first time in his _____ life. Others depend on me now, he thought as he stepp [021] ndly said as his face reappeared. Al Jarry made a few _____ films and did not know who they were for. People have [022] oesn't show. With me, as you can see, my face goes a _____ kind of pink. Yours is a very useful kind of face to [023] ble to think of a future. There was only the 'now', a _____ , half world of grey misery. Last night she had slept [024] the long hours of work on the farm made him tired and _____ . There was always an angry expression on his face, an [025] rry Heathcli now! Hindley has made him become a poor, _____ farm worker. He'll never know how I love him.' I sudd 7. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] on! Suddenly two hands held her throat. She couldn't _____ . Her head was banged against the side of the coach ag [002] lot, so a nurse put something over my face to help me _____ . I started to feel better and tried to sit up. 'Just [003] u tried to look into their sad, dark eyes. They would _____ and eat the dirt all the long working day, and often [004] r. . .' But the words wouldn't come out. She couldn't _____ . What was happening? Mr Stanyer started laughing. The [005] the classroom door. Marwa was screaming. Hu couldn't _____ . 'You must tell my father. . .' She was awake, breath [006] position.' Mr Riding smiled to himself. Hu couldn't _____ , she was so angry. She decided not to speak. 'Uh huh [007] hen time for Mr and Mrs. Elton to leave. Emma could _____ again. 'What an awful woman,' she thought. 'A very ru [008] is fathers head tighter and tighter. Marcus could not _____ . He began to move, trying to get away, but Commodus h [009] field of vegetables, looked up and forced himself to _____ . There, hanging on ropes, were the burnt bodies of hi [010] houts in a strange language... It was hot; too hot to _____ ... Maximus's eyes opened slowly. Centimeters away fro [011] said. She pulled his blanket closer and watched him _____ deeply, already dreaming again. 'Come, brother, it's [012] arlett was so frightened that she found it diicult to _____ . Jonas Wilkerson at Tara? Never, never, never! 'I'll [013] me of night?' 'I am not well,' said Nancy. 'I want to _____ some fresh air.' 'Put your head out of the window,' r [014] erribly from cold and hunger, and found it diicult to _____ in the thin air. Alexander walked beside his, soldier [015] film's quieter moments, the rooms themselves seem to _____ . Long before the genetically engineered superbugs (ca [016] cycle, and of course they give us the oxygen that we _____ . And cutting down the rain forests kills the plants [017] in with boiling water, put a towel over my head, and _____ the hot steam down my throat. So far, so good - no c [018] or only a few seconds. Then I stood up, trying not to _____ the yellow smoke. The window had been blown out and I [019] vers and its trees - a wordless friend and judge. To _____ in the peace of home, to be happy there, I think we [020] I couldn't see, I couldn't shout. I could only just _____ . They hit my head, my face. When I fell on the ground [021] ean air. Clare had called a neighbour and he began to _____ into Jeremy, mouth to mouth. 'I called the ambulanc [022] thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot _____ . 0 Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his [023] eared over the side of the boat. It said, 'We can't _____ under here! Why don't you help us, you great stupid [024] t. 'Come on, my love - run!' His warm body seemed to _____ new life into her. She ran. When she could no longer [025] tching beneath me, terror held me. I forced myself to _____ deeply, to stay calm. I kicked off my shoes, then r 8. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] ' You shouldn't hate her, sir,' I said. 'It's not her _____ she's mad, poor thing.' 'Jane, my darling, it's not [002] family, where an unfortunate event, not in any way my _____ , caused me to run away. , That was all I was prepare [003] e-thuit. Yeth.' Duncan hardly noticed this particular _____ in her limited English. He never spoke to her except [004] almost like cruelty to children!' 'It mightn't be his _____ , sir,' the Pilot officer said. 'I mean, some of those [005] ing Father's property in future? We know it's nor his _____ . Can he be a sensible man, sir?' she added, turning t [006] said Elizabeth, 'but I've always assumed it is my own _____ - because I don't take the trouble to practise. I kno [007] ptuously. 'Yes, unfortunate indeed.' 'And it was your _____ ,' cried Elizabeth with energy. 'You took away his chan [008] ee. I think, Lizzy, that obstinacy is Mr Darcy's real _____ , rather than any of the other faults of which he has [009] sappeared out of the room. 'Sorry we're late, Mum. My _____ ,' said Beth. 'That's OK,' she said. Beth and Philip b [010] reality. I couldn't blame my dead wife. This was my _____ . I had been so interested in Sandra, I had needed her [011] ally sorry, Mrs Taylor,' said Tristan. 'It's not your _____ ,' she replied. 'You're not responsible for the sea. I [012] After all, what do I care about Caroline? boyfriend _____ . Still, at least I know now that fan feels the same w [013] ' he said. 'I was rushing you I expect. It's your own _____ ; you're too attractive.' I looked away, suddenly fee [014] felt sore, but I knew that the punishment was my own _____ . I should not have written the word 'vanquished' . A [015] ie. Then everyone would say that their deaths were my _____ . The school bell rang, and I walked towards the door. [016] l and the Lion?' I answered immediately: 'It was your _____ . You were like an insect that flies round a bright fl [017] ble or a desk, anyone could read them. It was his own _____ , and he could not complain. But no one was allowed to [018] . Miss Marian will be angry with me, but it wasn't my _____ . You'll be our twelfth man: His speech was a great s [019] ink so,' Lord Trimingham answered. 'But wasn't it her _____ as well as the man's?' I asked. 'Nothing is ever a la [020] ell as the man's?' I asked. 'Nothing is ever a lady's _____ ; you'll learn 'that,' he replied. These words had a g [021] at no matter what happened, nothing was ever a lady's _____ . The more I thought about the idea, the more generous [022] ed Lord Trimingham's words: 'Nothing is ever a lady's _____ .' It was a very happy thought. But the trouble must b [023] ery happy thought. But the trouble must be somebody's _____ . I wondered whose [024] . I wondered whose _____ it was. And I thought it must be Ted's [025] it was. And I thought it must be Ted's _____ . I soon arrived at the gate of Ted's farm. I walked p 9. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] here the Italian officers let us straight through the _____ , but the Swiss officers checked our passports and ask [002] along the motorway west of Genoa, nearing the French _____ . Light shone off the sea and onto the surrounding hill [003] The journey had been easy so far. When we got to the _____ itself, however, we met unexpected queues of slowly m [004] ars began to increase speed on the French side of the _____ . I was starting to feel suspicious again. Her behavio [005] ?' 'Welt it's just that you looked so nervous at the _____ back there with the police. . .' 'Oh, please, Paul!! [006] he journey so far. Sandra's nervousness at the French _____ , the two cars that seemed to be following us, the way [007] my exciting holidays, and my regular trips across the _____ into Switzerland to take things. . .' 'What things?' [008] h, antique jewellery usually - I'd been stopped at the _____ the time before I asked you to drive to Lugano. Fort [009] n England tell us that the customs authorities at the _____ will be checking everyone who goes into the country. [010] what had happened. We arranged to meet at the Italian _____ the next day. We then moved the car over to the corn [011] ping time we needed. Now we can drive straight to the _____ .' . Chapter 16 A motorway chase But we'd forgotten [012] as a nurse on a hospital train going to the Hungarian _____ and passing through the town of Liski, the last addre [013] cut steps in the steep rockface of a mountain, on the _____ between Macedonia and Thessaly. After weeks of hard w [014] aughter of his father's ally, the Carian king. At the _____ , he was met by Queen Ada, who had been the wife of an [015] ved reports that the enemy had camped near the Syrian _____ with Cilicia (southern Turkey). They marched along th [016] f political and academic dispute on both sides of the _____ . During the last Presidential campaign in the United [017] cans, a million of whom were said to pour across the _____ each year, taking jobs from Americans and driving up [018] arm wife in this little village near the North Korean _____ . "I don't honestly know if it's a good thing." All ac [019] t encourages states aspiring to membership to settle _____ disputes and protect minority rights by holding out t [020] over shipments between the mainland and Taiwan, and _____ officials with a reputation for corrupt and fickle be [021] Kola Peninsula north of St. Petersburg near Russia's _____ with Finland and Norway, is a 1, 700-square-mile wil [022] eli forces would take their first steps back from the _____ zone, which they have occupied since Israel's invasio [023] The new passport could mean that anyone (crossing a _____ ) can be stopped and checked until a computer stateme [024] town. Kani will meet you and drive you to the Lesotho _____ . You will cross the river Telle into Lesotho at night [025] police aren't likely to check when you drive to the _____ .' Woods was still doubtful. 'I don't see how I'm goin 10. WORDS amused beam border breathe disappointed dull fate fault net pencil [001] ent in this car,' Rick said, that breaks up the laser _____ and spreads it out into ordinary light.' Then I'll h [002] ch pulled out his laser gun and fired at Garland. The _____ hit Garland in the head. His body fell forwards and t [003] ba Luft, terror on her face, jumped sideways, but the _____ hit her in the stomach. She stared in front of her an