After breakfast， I sent the children 1. school and then I went to the shops． It was still early when I 2. （return） home． The children were at school， my husband was at work and the house was quiet． So I decided to make some meat pies． In a short time I was busy 3. （mix） butter and flour and my hands 4.( be) soon covered with sticky pastry． 5.exactly that moment， the telephone rang． Nothing could have been more annoying．
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Dentists always ask questions when it is impossible for you 1. answer.My dentist had just pulled out one of my 2. ( tooth) and had told me to rest for a while. I tried 3. (say) something, but my mouth was full of cotton wool. He knew I collected match boxes and asked me 4. my collection was growing. He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London. In answer to these questions I either nodded or made strange noises. Meanwhile, my tongue was busy searching out the hole where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very 5.,( worried ) but could not say anything. When the dentist at last removed the cotton wool from my mouth, I was able to tell him that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.
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Debbie Hart is going to swim 1. the English Channel tomorrow.She is going to set out from the French coast at five o'clock in the morning. Debbie is only eleven years old and she hopes to set up a new world record. She is a strong 2. (swim) and many people feel that she is sure 3. (succeed)Debbie's father will set out with her in a small boat. Mr. Hart 4. (train )his daughter for years. Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England. Debbie intends to take short rests every two hours. She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food. Most of Debbie's school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast.
5.them will be Debbie's mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.
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Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his1. (experience) as a young man. Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used 2. (work) in a small shop. It was his job3. ( repair) bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1958 he 4.(buy) a small workshop of his own. 5. his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers.
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I crossed the street to avoid 1. (meet) him, but he saw me and came running 2. me. It was no use pretending that I had not seen him, so I waved to him. I never enjoy meeting Nigel Dykes. He 3.has anything to do. No matter 4. busy you are, he always insists on coming with you. I had to think of a way5. preventing him from following me around all morning.
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A public house which was recently bought 1. Mr. Ian Thompson is up for sale. Mr. Thompson is going to sell it 2. it is haunted.He told me that he 3. (can) not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise 4. (come) from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. Thompson had turned the lights off 5. he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, Mr. Thompson shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept the pub even if he gives it away.
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In 1929, three years after his1. (fly） over the North Pole, the American explorer, R.E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the 2.（one） time. Though, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that 3.(lie） below, they soon ran into serious trouble. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. It could only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet. Byrd at once ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 400 feet. Byrd now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles 10 away, for there were no more mountains 4. sight. The aircraft was able to fly over the endless white plains5. difficulty.
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The whole village soon learned that a large sum of money had been lost. Sam Benton, the local butcher, had lost his wallet 1.taking his savings to the post office. Sam was sure that the wallet 2. have been found by one of the villagers, but it was not returned 3. him. Three months passed, and then one morning, Sam found his wallet outside his front door. It had been wrapped up in newspaper and it contained half the money he had lost, together with a note which said:‘A thief, yes, but only 50 4.a thief!’Two months 5., some more money was sent to Sam with another note:‘Only 25 per cent a thief now!’In time, all Sam's money was back.
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