A red rose

273.Complete the sentence: It was… when the train pulled into the little station. Lanny.. into the fresh morning air and .. a deep breath.

Early morning/ stepped/ took

274.At that time a new safe was put…

In Adam’s bank

275.The plan of selling pictures … with all of us.

Was successful

276.Complete the sentence: Bracket rose and worked over the counter until they were face to face.

”The happiest man of Earth”

277.Complete the sentence: “I’d love a game – but I’ll have to go home and change …”

My clothes

278.Stephens lived …

In an ordinary Spanish house

279.Complete the sentence: There were cars …

In front of the house

280.Complete the sentence: I have just read a book of yours about …

Spain

281.Complete the sentence: Mr. Magister got a lot of money for his pictures – and he … for his lessons.

Took a lot of money

282.Complete the sentence: He spends … to and from upon the beach for fear he might be frozen.

For first night walking

283.These sentences are from the text:

In the end we persuaded Miss Lowery to go back home. The three of us then hurried to the ferry, and there I found the price of the ticket to be but a dollar and eighty cents. I bought one, and a red, red rose with a twenty cents for Miss Lowery.

“No story”

284.When the art student the following week, he saw a drawing on the table. The main character of the story …

Frank Swain

285.Finish the following sentence: “Wager with Destiny” is…

Anderson

286.Complete the sentence: “We… and… the twisting coils of a huge carpet snake, which had wound its body round and the bell – wire on top of the wall plate”.

Looked up/ saw

287.Complete the sentence: The first Mrs. Walker had died, when Fran was still a baby…

So, she did not remember her real mother at all

288.Complete the sentence: Fran wanted…

The pony

289.“Ten years … . Fifty cents a year”.

To earn five dollars

290.Complete the sentence: I suppose every family has a black sheep. In this family it had been…

Tom

291.Complete the sentence: …for even the most barefaced of men to eat, but not drop did waste on his whiskers.

It was a difficult soup

292.Couldn’t help thinking of his table when the other day I saw George Ramsay lunching in a restaurant . This sentence is from the text:

“The Ant and the Grasshopper” by W.S. Maugham

293.Complete the sentence: That began to interest…

The detictives

294.Complete the sentence: Mr. Larrabee and Mrs. Larrabee began their marriage life…

In a little room

295.The main hero in the text “Wager with destiny” is…

Anderson

296.Jack will do his work better…

He thinks that play is more important than work

297.Complete the sentence: In the street he met …