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Question Numbers: 86-90
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all grey ____ 1 ____ hoar-frost and the ripple lapping softly on the stones. The captain had _____ 2____ earlier than usual and set out down the beach. Mother was upstairs with father and I was _____ 3____ the breakfast table against the captain’s return when the parlour door opened and a man stepped in on whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand, and ______ 4____ he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter. I had always my eye open for seafaring ______ 5_____ with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all grey ____ 1 ____ hoar-frost and the ripple lapping softly on the stones. The captain had _____ 2____ earlier than usual and set out down the beach. Mother was upstairs with father and I was _____ 3____ the breakfast table against the captain’s return when the parlour door opened and a man stepped in on whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand, and ______ 4____ he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter. I had always my eye open for seafaring ______ 5_____ with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.
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