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3. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.

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  1. It was a small laundry when he went into it, but Dexter made a specialty of learning how the English washed fine woolen golf-stockings without … them.

  2. A little later he was doing their wives’ … as well – and running five branches in different parts of the city.

  3. Before he was twenty-seven he owned the largest … of laundries in his section of the country.

  4. He was impressed by the tremendous … he felt toward Mr. T. A. Hedrick, who was a bore and not even a good golfer any more.

  5. A bright new ball sliced abruptly over the hill and caught Mr. T. A. Hedrick in the … .

  6. It was impossible to determine whether this question was … or malicious.

  7. Because the sound of a piano over a … of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened.

  8. Dexter raising himself on his arms was … of a figure standing at the wheel, of two dark eyes regarding him over the lengthening space of water.

  9. Then she was in the water, swimming to the floating surf-board with a … crawl.

  10. His heart turned over the fly-wheel of the boat, and, for the second time, her casual … gave a new direction to his life.

Grammar Tasks

1. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or the Past Perfect.

  1. He _____(not to consider) it necessary to remark that he _____(to carry) once Mr. Hart’s bag over these same links.

  2. The quality of exaggeration, of thinness, which _____(to make) her passionate eyes and down-turning mouth absurd at eleven, _____(to go) now.

  3. She _____(to wear) a blue silk afternoon dress, and he was disappointed at first that she _____(not to put) on something more elaborate.

  4. She _____(to go) to the door of a butler’s pantry and pushing it open _____(to call): “You can serve dinner, Martha”. He _____(to expect) that a butler would announce dinner.

  5. He _____(to remember) the last time he _____(to see) her father, and he _____(to be) glad the parents were not to be here tonight.

  6. He _____(to be) born in Keeble, a Minnesota village fifty miles farther north, and he always _____(to give ) Keeble as his home instead of Black Bear Village.

  7. They _____(to talk) of his University, which she _____(to visit) frequently during the past two years.

  8. There was a man I _____(to care) about, and this afternoon he _____(to tell) me out of a clear sky that he _____(to be) poor as a church-mouse. He never even _____(to hint) it before.

  9. I _____(not to think) of him that way, and my interest in him _____(not to be) strong enough to survive the shock.

  10. It didn’t take him many hours to decide that he _____(to want) Judy Jones ever since he_____(to be) a proud, desirous little boy.

2. Complete the sentences with prepositions.

  1. He wanted not association … glittering things and glittering people – he wanted the glittering things themselves.

  2. Men were insisting that their Shetland hose and sweaters go … his laundry, just as they had insisted … a caddy who could find golf-balls.

  3. He found himself glancing … the four caddies who trailed them, trying to catch a gleam or gesture that would remind him … himself, that would lessen the gap which lay … his present and his past.

  4. Her glance fell casually … each … the men – then scanned the fairway … her ball.

  5. She wore … a blue gingham dress, rimmed … a throat and shoulders … a white edging that accentuated her tan.

  6. When the time had come … him to wear good clothes, he had known who were the best tailors … America, and the best tailors … America had made him the suit he wore … this evening.

  7. His mother was a Bohemian … the peasant class and she had talked broken English … the end … her days.

  8. … dinner she slipped … a moody depression which gave Dexter a feeling … uneasiness.

  9. When the scarlet corners … her lips curved down, it was less a smile than an invitation … a kiss.

  10. A lump rose … Dexter’s throat, and he waited breathless … the experiment, facing the unpredictable compound that would form mysteriously … the elements … their lips.