The following is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct forms of the words in the box (there are more words than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)
The display in the window was attractive, but Miriam (1)__ where the new business was going to come from. Cannon Falls wasn't a one-stop-light town, but it wasn't a great metropolis either. There just weren't that many people to warrant an extravagant new business (2)__ such as this. The bank manager，Al Gropin, had even invested in some full-page advertisements in the (3)__ paper and had hired some clowns to perform on the street in front of the bank—all to try to (4)__new customers.
But Miriam didn't linger long in front of the window, and she didn't waste much (5) __on her thoughts of Al's grand schemes. Her mission today was the same as it had been every weekday for the (6) __ .several weeks.
She nodded at passers-by, shopkeepers, and neighbors as she walked purposefully along the wide (7)___toward The Computer Shack. There was a (8)___expression
on her face as she smiled and said her “hellos”and “good afternoons” and"how are yous" to the people she saw almost every day of her life.Her daily meeting with Officer Quanbeck (9) __failed to amuse her. She smiled to herself as they (10) __ greetings and wondered whether he would feel as stupid as he looked after she pulled off the crime of the century.
