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 and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.

        Not a move. Even her expression hadn’t changed. Her breaths, however, were coming faster and faster. Then the ______ began. I had to do it. I had to have a ______ culture for her own protection. But first I told the ______ that it was entirely up to them. I ______ the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat ______ so long as they would take the responsibility.

        Only two people shared her “special” seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a ______ of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was ______ , for Miss Brill always looked ______ to the conversation. She had become really quite ______ , she thought, at listening as though she didn’t ______ , at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her.

        Accordingly, I was considered one of the ______ ones. My scholarship to college was a ticket. People did not expect me to ______. Understanding this, I can understand the ______ in the minds of those in Watts when I was home last summer,working in the ______ poverty program. Rumors spread quickly that I was a FBI ______  I was suspect because I was not supposed to return.

        When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them ______ kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to ______ pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages ______ with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first ______ in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be ______ than dead.

        At the flower market she walked up and down in front of the stalls, and saw more clearly because of her decision, so she thought. She looked at the flowers. She looked at the people. There was a ______ at the farthest stand. The woman’s face was ______. But her hands were beautiful. She was ______ a baby. Marian wanted ______ grand flowers, only the soft and touchable. She bought a big wheel of ______ carnations, and some little gentle-petalled primroses with shiny dark green leaves.

A. lucky              B. receive              C. sad              D. pumpkin      E. forward

F. explained      G. disappointing  H. agent         I. alive               J. time

K. family             L. all                         M. nursing    N. no                  O. return

P. local                Q. listen                  R. throat        S. parents         T. expert

U. puzzlement  V. examination     W. red            X. battle             Y. roll