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1 There was

knock on ...

door. I opened it and found ...

small

dark man in

blue overcoat and

woollen cap.

2 He said he was ...

employee of

gas company and had come to

read . . . meter.

3 But I had ...

suspicion that he wasn't speaking ...

truth because

· .. meter readers usually wear ...

peaked caps.

4 However, I took him to ...

meter, which is in ...

dark corner under

· .. stairs (...

meters are usually in ...

dark corners under ...

stairs).

5 I asked if he had

torch; he said he disliked torches and always

read ...

meters by

light of

match.

6 I remarked that if there was

leak in ...

gaspipe there might be

· .. explosion while he was reading ...

meter.

7 He said, 'As ...

matter of ...

fact, there was

explosion in ...

last house I visited; and Mr Smith, ...

owner of

house, was

burnt in ... face.'

H 'Mr Smith was holding ...

lighted match at ...

time of ...

explosion. '

II To prevent ...

possible repetition of this accident, I lent him ...

torch.

10 lie switched on ...

torch, read ...

meter and wrote ...

reading

down on

back of ...

envelope.

II I :midin

surprise that ...

meter readers usually put ...

readings

down in book.

1;1, Ill' said that he had had ... book but that it had been burnt in ...

fin' in ... Mr Smith's house.

1:1 11'1 thi~time I had come to ...

conclusion that he wasn't

genuine

1III'II'rreader; and

moment he left ...

house I rang

police.

•4 1\11'John and Mary

cousins?-

No, IIIt'Yaren't ...

cousins; they are ...

brother and

sister.

I~ , 101{ was so thick that we couldn't see ...

side of

road. We

'"lIowI'1!...

car in front of us and hoped that we were going ...

'I 1l'IUl'Irrllwlllber ...

thrltl wily.

exact date of

storm, but I know it was

"\IIIIIA"hl'cllllse everybody was at

church. On

Monday

,*. I ,lhl"'1 l'OII1(' because ...

roads were blocked by

fallen trees.

''11111 t 1t11l1\H thaI this is quite ...

cheap restaurant.

Th.,p'. hl'l'lI ...

murder here.-

"hody?-

Wh'ltl'liI

Thllt" hlll't

body.-

"'""

how do 'lOll Imow there's been ...

murder?

19 Number

hundred and two, ..• house next door to us, is for sale.

It's quite

nice house with ...

big rooms ....

back windows look

out on park.

20 I don't know what ...

price ...

owners are asking. But Dry and Rot

are ...

agents. You could give them ...

ring and make them ...

offer.

21 ...

postman's little boy says that he'd rather be

dentist than ...

doctor, because ...

dentists don't get called out at

night.

22 Just as ...

air hostess (there was only one on the plane) was handing

me ...

cup of

coffee

plane gave ...

lurch and ...

coffee

went all over

person on

other side of

gangway.

23 There was

collision between ...

car and

cyclist at ...

crossroads near ...

my house early in

morning ....

cyclist was

taken to

hospital with ...

concussion

driver of ...

car was

treated for

shock

witnesses say that

car was going at

...

seventy miles

qour.

24 Professor Jones,

man who discovered

new drug that

everyone is talking about, refused to give

press conference.

25 Peter Piper, ...

student in ...

professor's college, asked him why

he refused to talk to ...

press.

26 We're going to ...

tea with ...

Smiths today, aren't we? Shall we

take ... car?-

We ca,n go by

car if you wash ...

car first. We can't go to ...

Mrs Smith's in

car all covered with

mud.

27 He got ...

job in

south and spent

next two years doing ...

work he really enjoyed.

28 It is ...

pleasure to do ...

business with such ...

efficient

organization.

29 ...

day after ...

day passed without ...

news, and we began to lose

... hope.

30 Would you like to hear ...

story about ...

Englishman, ...

Irishman and

Scotsman?-

No. I've heard

stories about ...

Englishmen, ...

Irishmen and

...

Scotsmen before and they are all ...

same.

31 But mine is not ...

typical story. In my story ...

Scotsman is

generous,

Irishman is logical and ...

Englishman is romantic. -

Oh, if it's

fantastic story I'll listen with ...

pleasure.

32 My aunt lived on ...

ground floor of

old house on ...

River

Thames. She was very much afraid of

burglars and always

locked up

house very carefully before she went to ...

bed. She

also took

precaution of looking under ...

bed to see if ...

burglar was hiding there.

33 ' ... modern burglars don't hide under ... beds,' said her daughter.

'I'll go on looking just ... same,' said my aunt.

34 One morning she rang her daughter in ...

triumph. 'I found ...

burglar under ...

bed ...

last night,' she said, 'and he was quite ...

young man.'

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