Use of English Vocabulary Test L

(Please note: Questions 1-15 are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

Night Visitor

She put the key in the keyhole as quietly as she could but she found it _____ as the door was old and rusty.

As she _____ opened the door, it squeaked _____ on its old hinges.

As she _____ opened the door, it squeaked _____ on its old hinges.

‘I wish they’d oil the thing a bit more _____,’ she muttered to herself _____.

‘I wish they’d oil the thing a bit more _____,’ she muttered to herself _____.

She closed the door _____ behind her and then tiptoed _____ across the room.

She closed the door _____ behind her and then tiptoed _____ across the room.

Unfortunately, this time it was the floorboards that betrayed her as they creaked _____ with every step she took.

It had been so _____ since the old house had been built - it had _____ been about two hundred years before and for all Helen knew they had _____ replaced the original floorboards.

It had been so _____ since the old house had been built - it had _____ been about two hundred years before and for all Helen knew they had _____ replaced the original floorboards.

It had been so _____ since the old house had been built - it had _____ been about two hundred years before and for all Helen knew they had _____ replaced the original floorboards.

Helen’s heart began to beat _____.

It was one o’clock. Helen’s parents must have gone to bed _____.

This was most unusual. Rarely _____ to bed before she got home.

No sooner had she put her foot on the first stair _____ she heard a muffled voice call out, ‘Who’s there? Is that you, Helen?