The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
● We parked the car, Elgie came over and ______ himself in the back seat of the car. A police car moved slowly to the corner where we were ______ and the patrolmen looked at the three of us ______ and we pretended not to ______. The patrol car ______ down the empty street and I turned ______ toward Elgie. 

● She ______ to me because she was like people I had never met ______. Like women in English novels who walked the moors with their ______ dogs racing at a ______ distance. Like the women who sat in front of roaring ______, drinking tea ______ from silver trays. 

● Actually, I enjoy my work when the ______ are large and ______ and somewhat frightening and will ______ the attention of many people. I get scared, and am unable to ______ at night, but I usually ______ at my best under this stimulating kind of ______ and enjoy my job the most. 

● And Americans ought to note that, ______ things may seem to be ______ apart, arts and the humane scholarship are ______ here. I’m not suggesting that writers and artists have the task of finding a ______ to the American ______, but they can at least clarify its ______ and show how it relates to the human condition in general.

A. inched     B. perform     C. assignments      D. personally
E. appealed  F. however   G. nature                 H. come to
I. fireplaces   J. intently     K. parked                 L. settled
M. respectful N. loyal       O. notice                 P. cautiously
Q. pressure    R. mess      S. flourishing            T. sleep
U. incessantly  V. solution  W. urgent              X. falling