Question

(a) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.

(0) wandered (wander)


Peggy and I (0) __________ (wander) back down Fifth Avenue with the rest of the crowd dribbling out of the Robert Palmer concert that (1) __________ (just reach) its exhausted finale in Central Park. It (2) __________ (be) part of the annual Dr Pepper Central Park Music Festival and whatever Robert Palmer may have thought, I, for one, was extremely grateful for their sponsorship, because it was one of those unbearable summer nights in Manhattan – very late summer, it was already September – when the humidity is a thousand per cent and even the most refined of ladies glistens buckets. We (3) _________ (grab) the ice-cold cans that were being handed out as we (4) ____________ (leave) the arena and not just because they were free. On a night like that, an ice-cold anything is a lifeline. With my de rigueur denim jacket slung over my shoulder – I do not know why I (5) ________(buy) it, far too hot (6) ____________ (wear), but once a fashionista always a fashionista, I suppose – I (7) ____________ (toss) back my head and (8) _______ (drain) the lot.

Answer 1

Answer:

1.wondered

2.been

3.grabed

4.living