The child was fairly eating me_ 32 with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed,_ 33 , quiet; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a_ 34 in appearance. But her face was flushed, she was_ 35 rapidly, and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent blonde hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often_ 36 in advertising leaflets and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.
Chavel was filled with a huge and_ 37 joy. It seemed to him that already he was_ 38- twenty-nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The chances had suddenly grown in his_ 39 from ten to one to- fourteen one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and indicated 40 and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one couldn't mock the 41 man by any sign of relief.
Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to_ 42 the generally unenviable social functions_ 43 reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine_ 44 of being attractive. They have the right, if not to be 45_ virtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate to look less virtuous. The British Matron, not long since a creature of austere and even 46_ aspect, now does her best to achieve and perennially preserve the appearance of what her predecessor would have described as a Lost Woman.
No sooner did his car touch the boulevard_ 47 home than Ace flicked on the radio. He needed the radio, especially today. In the seconds 48 the tubes warmed up, he said aloud, doing it just to hear a human voice,“Jesus. She'll pop her lid.” His voice, though familiar,_ 49 him; it sounded thin and 50_ . In a deeper register Ace added, “She'll murder me.” Then the radio came 51 , warm and strong, so he stopped worrying.
I once 52 two lttle girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a 53_. They lived in my family, and of course had plenty to eat. But they spent all their leisure visiting_ 54 farms and stealing potatoes, which they hoarded. Rockefeller, who in his infancy had experienced great poverty, spent his_ 55 life in a similar manner. Similarly the Arab chieftains on their silken Byzantine 56 could not forget the desert, and hoarded riches far beyond any possible physical need.
A. neighbouring
B. privilege
C. before
D. hitherto
E. adult
F. condemned
G. shameful
H. famine .
I. heading
J. less
K. scratchy
L. inwardly
M. divans
N. perform
O. on
P. terrifying
Q. reproduced
R. heifer
S. irked
T. favor
U. befriended
V. carelessly
W. saved
X. breathing
Y. up
