CSEC ENGLISH

From 1B

1. After a period of intense and ________ training, the recruits were finally ready for combat.

2. Watching the glass-blower at work, the youngsters were astounded at his ________ movements as he turned a molten glass rod into a delicate ornament.

3. If you don’t have sufficient calcium in your diet, your teeth and bones may become ________, so drink up your milk!

4. Every movement of the panther in his cage showed us how ________ and agile he would be if only he were in his natural environment.

5. Not satisfied with marking his students’ work and merely affixing a grade, the ________ teacher wrote helpful comments in the margins.

6. Every mango season, Johnny would sneak into the neighbour’s yard and help himself to a bagful of ripe fruit ________ as he was at scaling the fence and climbing to the topmost boughs of the tree.

7. At the auction sale, letters alleged to have been written by the famous poet were up for bids, but one of two people present queried whether the letters were ________ or forgeries.

8. Giving us a ________ stare, the receptionist took down our names, all the time making us feel as if we were dirty urchins from the street corner rather than serious students engaged in important research.

9. The talents of Jack Sprat and his wife in the nursery rhyme could be said to be ________: he could eat no fat, and she could eat no lean, so between the two of them they always managed to polish off the meal!

10. When we investigated, we discovered that the ________ smell coming from the storage room was caused by a partly decomposed rat that had crept in and died

under the boxes.