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1. . . . youngest boy has just started going to . . . school; . . . eldest boy is at . . . college.
2. She lives on . . . top floor of an old house. When . . . wind blows, all . . . windows rattle.
3. . . . darkness doesn't worry . . . cats; . . . cats can see in . . . dark.
4. My little boys say that they want to be . . . spacemen, but most of them will probably
end up in . . . less dramatic jobs.
5. Do you know . . . time? ~
Yes, . . . clock in . . . hall has just struck nine. ~ Then it isn't . . . time to go yet.
6. He was sent to . . . prison for . . . six months for . . . shop-lifting.
When . . . six months are over he'll be released; . . . difficulty then will be to find . . .
work. ~ Do you go to . . . prison to visit him?
7. I went to . . . school to talk to . . . headmistress. I persuaded her to let Ann give up . . .
gymnastics and take . . . ballet lessons instead.
8. . . . ballet isn't much use for . . . girls; it is much better to be able to play . . . piano.
9. I am on... night duty. When you go to . . . bed, I go to . . . work.
10. Peter's at . . . office but you could get him on . . . phone. There's a telephone box just
round . . . corner
11. He got... bronchitis and was taken to . . . hospital. I expect they’ll send him home at . . .
end of . . . week. ~
Have you rung . . . hospital to ask how he is?
12. Ann's habit of riding a motorcycle up and down . . . road early in . . . morning annoyed .
. . neighbours and in . . . end they took her to . . . court.
13. He first went to . . . sea in a Swedish ship, so as well as learning . . . navigation he had
to learn . . . Swedish.
14. . . . family hotels are . . . hotels which welcome . . . parents and . . . children.
15. On . . . Sundays my father stays in . . . bed till ten o'clock, reading . . . Sunday papers.
16. Then he gets up, puts on . . . old clothes, has . . . breakfast and starts . . . work in . . .
garden.
17. My mother goes to . . . church in . . . morning, and in . . . afternoon goes to visit . . .
friends.
18. Like many women, she loves . . . tea parties and . . . gossip.
19. My parents have ... cold meat and . . . salad for . . . supper, . . . winter and . . . summer.
20. During . . . meal he talks about . . . garden and she tells him . . . village gossip.
21. We have a very good train service from here to . . . city centre and most people go to . . .
work by train. You can go by . . . bus too, of course, but you can't get a season ticket on
. . . bus.
22. . . . dead no longer need . . . help. We must concern ourselves with . . . living. We must
build . . . houses and . . . schools and . . . playgrounds.
23. I'd like to see . . . Mr.. Smith please. ~
Do you mean . . . Mr. Smith who works in . . . box office or . . . other Mr. Smith?
24. Did you come by . . . air? ~
No, I came by . . . sea. I had a lovely voyage on . . . Queen Elizabeth II.
25. . . . most of . . . stories that . . . people tell about . . . Irish aren't true.
26. . . . married couples with . . . children often rent . . . cottages by . . . seaside for . . .
summer holidays.
. . . men hire boats and go for . . . trips along . . . coast; . . . children spend . . . day on . . .
beach and . . . poor mothers spend . . . most of . . . time doing . . . cooking and cleaning.
27. It's usually safe to walk on . . . sand, but here, when . . . tide is coming in, . . . sand
becomes dangerously soft. . . . people have been swallowed up by it.
28. When . . . Titanic was crossing . . . Atlantic she struck an iceberg which tore a huge hole
in her bow. . . . captain ordered . . . crew to help . . . passengers into . . . boats.
29. Everywhere . . . man has cut down . . . forests in order to cultivate . . . ground, or to use .
. . wood as . . . fuel or as . . . building material.
30. But . . . interference with . . . nature often brings . . . disaster. . . . tree-felling sometimes
turns . . . fertile land into a dustbowl.
31. . . . people think that . . . lead is . . . heaviest metal, but . . . gold is heavier.
32. Our air hostess said, '. . . rack is only for . . . light articles. . . . heavy things such as . . .
bottles must be put on . . . floor.'
33. . . . windows are supposed to let in . . . light; but . . . windows of this house are so small
that we have to have . . . electric light on all . . . time.
34. There'll always be a conflict between . . . old and . . . young. . . . young people want . . .
change but . . . old people want . . . things to stay . . . same.
35. . . . power tends to corrupt and . . . absolute power corrupts absolutely.
36. You can fool some of . . . people all . . . time, and all . . . people some of . . . time; but
you cannot fool all . . . people all . . . time.
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