In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into family rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing (1) ________ primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot (2) ________ the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency (3) ________ ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from (4) ________ a bachelor and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor (5) ________ that.
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Dill ate, and ate and ate. He hadn’t eaten (1)__________ last night. He used all his money for a ticket, (2)__________the train, as he had done many times, coolly chatted with the conductor, to (3)__________ Dill was a familiar sight, but he had not the nerve to invoke the rule on small children travelling a distance alone; if you’ve lost your money the conductor will (4)__________ you enough for dinner and your father will (5) ___________him back at the end of the line.
