Test VIII

1. With __ rapidity that angered and amazed Jaffe, __ news that he had met a Vietnamese taxi-dancer at the Paradise Club in Cholon, and he had fallen in love with her and she came regularly to his house had spread throughout the Saigon European community in next to no time. (J.H. Chase)

2. __ reality is something __ human race doesn’t handle very well. (G. Vidal)

3. He had had __ solitary lunch prepared by Dong Ham, his cook and served by Haum, his houseboy. (J.H. Chase)

4. When Lara arrived at __ hospital six hours later, Howard Keller was waiting there for her. (S. Sheldon)

5. After all, I am __ American. (J.H. Chase)

6. James Earl Carter, Jr was elected __ President of __ United States. (S. Sheldon)

7. He thought of it with__ great pleasure. (J.H. Chase)

8. He said nothing of his life there, no word about himself, but he told me how __ sun set there, on __ spring afternoon, leaving a glow upon the headland. (D. du Maurier)

9. He took __ last look around the room. (J.H. Chase)

10. Quin smiled. “You’re not an outsider. You’re __ Randall now, God help you.” (K. Saunders)

11. __ leaden February sky had deepened to black. (K. Saunders)

12. It revealed __ wanton animal fury that struck fear into Adrian’s soul. (S. Fry)

13. She works in __ television.

14. You are __ most dramatic person I have known. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. The war began in __ summer following his freshman year. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. I wanted to be a traveler on the road, a bride in love with her husband. Not myself coming to Manderley for the first time, __ wife of Maxim de Winter. (D. du Maurier)

17. As for __ well-known Amory, he would write immortal literature if he were sure enough about anything to risk telling anyone else about it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. They took a taxi to __ Ritz and had a drink. (W.S. Maugham)

19. He heard from below the shrieks of laughter, and smelled the vapid odor of hot chocolate and tea-cakes as he silently followed __ mother and __ daughter downstairs. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. Jack’s in __ Navy, like the good Devon-man – he is. (K. Saunders)

Test IX

1. To hold __ man __ woman has to appeal to the worst in him. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

2. In the fifteenth century they gathered __ insane and imprisoned them forever on houseboats, the ships of fools…. (S. Sheldon)

3. He obeyed, with__ professional disgust. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. Rosemary and her mother talked about plans for __ future. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

5. You’ll have __ late supper. (S. Sheldon)

6. I think she was __ only person in the house who stood in__ awe for me. (D. du Maurier)

7. Walther always managed to be out of__ town on business. (S. Sheldon)

8. This is, of course, one of the evils of __ East. (J.H. Chase)

9. He was staring at his wife with __ expression of __ utter hopelessness. (S. Sheldon)

10. He’d been a clever boy, had a scholarship for __ Sheffield Grammar School, and learned __ French and things. (D.H. Lawrence)

11. No one would guess meeting her that she was not __ kindest, __ most generous, __ most gifted person in the world. (D. du Maurier)

12. The game with Groton was played from three of __ snappy, exhilarating afternoon for into the crisp autumnal twilight… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. The only physical disparity between __ Nicole at __ present and __ Nicole of five years before was simply that she was no longer a young girl. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. __ sun swam out into __ blue sea of __ sky and suddenly it was __ Swiss valley at its best. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. __ good conscience is __ continued Christmas. (B. Franklin)

16. A detective came to see Philip at __ hospital. (S. Sheldon)

17. We’re flying to __ Seychelles.

18. Then there was the thought that from tomorrow for __ possible four weeks I would be __ boss of __ International with a hundred and fifteen men and women working under me. (J.H. Chase)

19. “But Biffo thinks I should apply to St Matthew’s. He has a friend there he was in the war with, __ Professor Trefusis, supposed to be very good.” (S. Fry)

20. It was __ poker party that they found themselves __ week after Harry’s departure. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

Test X

1. __ anger and __ jealousy were things that could be conquered. (D. du Maurier)

2. He thought the big American would make her __ most suitable husband. (J.H. Chase)

3. It’s __ summer practically. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. He was __ man who accepted __ inevitable with __ belief that __ death was a release into __ better world and that at his age this release should be welcomed. (J.H. Chase)

5. __ Captain Searle, __ Kerrith harbour-master, called here yesterday, didn’t he? (D. du Maurier)

6. When he stepped out of Madame Kirstie’s establishment, __ chilly September wind was blowing. (S. Sheldon)

7. I’m afraid __ news has been a great shock to Mrs. Danvers. (D. du Maurier)

8. Beatrice stared at me in__ great distress, my blue frock over her arm. (D. du Maurier)

9. He told her that she was __ only woman he had ever loved and that he must go on loving her till __ end. (W.S. Maugham)

10. __ new, sweet Charlie simply vanished. __ real Charlie, she now saw, was __ warped, nasty creature. (K. Saunders)

11. When I married her I was told I was __ luckiest man the world. (D. du Maurier)

12. When __ supper was over, and coffee essence had been served in the drawing room, Audrey showed Bruno the spare bedroom. (K. Saunders)

13. I had __ sick expectant feeling at the pit of my stomach. (D. du Maurier)

14. Kathy buzzed her. “There’s __ Mr. Adler on line two. Shall I tell him…?” (S. Sheldon)

15. Outside he inhaled damp snowflakes that he could no longer see against __ darkening sky. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. He confirmed this decision walking around the rays of __ late afternoon in his workroom. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. I sat on __ bed, plucking at the eiderdown, pulling a little feather out of a slit in one corner. (D. du Maurier)

18. The old graduate, __ president in ninety-eight, perches on a box and thinks how much simpler it was in his day. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. She is currently listed in critical condition at __ Beth Israel Hospital here in New York. (M. Gabot)

20. You are the only girl in__ town I like much. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)