25. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a ______ one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.
26. Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ______ of stopping me.
27. No doubt somebody would have ______ if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, after all.
28. All I cared ______ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.
29. He sat with his ______ still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.
30. Give me a restless ______ or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity.
31. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to ______ the world-view that I acquired in childhood.
32. We’re angry about the same things you are ______ policy—a little angrier because our lives were the things used to test those policies.
33. I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely ______ I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do.
34. Through the wide doors of the sheds she ______ a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.
35. Persons who do remain at home while ______ ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.
36. What women didn’t seem to realize ______ that there were things you knew but shouldn’t say.
37. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is guaranteed low ______ or hassle-free service, or both.
38. Standing in front of the flower-stand woman she knew she ______ not have to explain that she wanted to leave them.
39. For some reason he smiled at what he saw, and turned ______ some yards along the towpath.
A. irregular E. noticed I. would M. price Q. caught U. apology |
B. ways F abandon J. humiliating N. new R. in vain V. was |
C. genetics G. in terms of K. compulsion O. hands S. in W. by means of |
D. about H. to walk L. meditate P crunch T. hour X. because |