Use Of English: Test L

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Use Of English: Test L

Night visitor

She put the key in the keyhole as quietly as she could but she found it __(1)__ as the door was old and rusty. As she __(2)__ opened the door, it squeaked __(3)__ on its old hinges. ‘I wish they’d oil the thing a bit more __(4)__,’ she muttered to herself __(5)__. She closed the door __(6)__ behind her and then tiptoed __(7)__ across the room. Unfortunately, this time it was the floorboards that betrayed her as they creaked __(8)__ with every step she took. It had been so __(9)__ since the old house had been built - it had __(10)__ been about two hundred years before and for all Helen knew they had __(11)__ replaced the original floorboards. Helen’s heart began to beat __(12)__. It was one o’clock. Helen’s parents must have gone to bed __(13)__. This was most unusual. Rarely __(14)__ to bed before she got home. No sooner had she put her foot on the first stair __(15)__ she heard a muffled voice call out, ‘Who’s there? Is that you, Helen?

- A) hardly
- B) easy
- C) hard
- D) easily
- A) slowly
- B) loudly
- C) careful
- D) noisy
- A) lightly
- B) noisily
- C) softly
- D) gently
- A) frequent
- B) oftener
- C) sooner
- D) frequently
- A) with angry
- B) angry
- C) angrily
- D) from anger
- A) shyly
- B) efficiently
- C) carefully
- D) fast
- A) softly
- B) gentle
- C) finely
- D) shortly
- A) aloud
- B) loud
- C) loudly
- D) allowed
- A) along
- B) long time
- C) long
- D) a long time
- A) probably
- B) certainly
- C) definitely
- D) may not
- A) rarely
- B) scarcely
- C) never
- D) occasionally
- A) fastly
- B) more faster
- C) more fast
- D) faster
- A) early
- B) more earlier
- C) the earliest
- D) more early
- A) they went
- B) they did go
- C) they have gone
- D) did they go
- A) then
- B) than
- C) that
- D) there

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