The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.
     “It was the best of times and the worst of time…” Her voice _________ in and curved down through and _________ the words. She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music lined on the pages, as in a _________ book? Her sounds began_________ gently. I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a _________ word. 

     Watching the float so intently made him sleepy: he had been with Doreen _________ two the night before. They spoke of getting married in three months, by which time, Arthur said, they would have collected a good _________ of money, nearly a hundred and fifty pounds, not counting income-tax rebate, which will probably _________ it up to a couple of hundred. So they would be sitting pretty, Doreen replied, because Mrs. Creatton had already _________ to let them stay with her for as long as they like, _________ half the rent. 

     Work therefore is _________, first and foremost as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though_________ work is as nothing in _________ with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. _________ this advantage of work another is associated, _________ that it makes holidays much more delicious when they come. 

     On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose _________ of rocks. Above them, some boys were _________ off their clothes. They came running, naked, down to the rocks. The English boy swam _________ them, and kept his distance at a stone’s _________. They were of that coast, all of them burned smooth _________ brown, and speaking a language he did not understand. To be with them, of them, was a craving that filled his whole body. 

     I don't know what the European figures are. Much smaller _________. Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in _________ as a Rolls-Royce. The most that the _________ of European women can do is just to wash and hope for the best. Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised _________; perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those _________ creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlily, from every hoarding.

A. desirable   B. majority     C. until   D. scatter        E. over   F. stripping
G. amount     H. cascading   I. undoubtedly   J. uninteresting    K. slid
L. namely      M. effects        N. bump       O. dark        P. comparison   

Q. ravishing R. single            S. throw        T. offered    U. paying    

V. towards  W. upkeep        X. With           Y. hymn