Select the correct sentence.
1.“B-b-but… I d-d-d-don’t have any m-m-m-money,” _____ Philip, as the thief pressed the edge of the knife blade close to his throat.
2.The old, heavy door _____ as it slowly swung open.
3.I was worried about being thirty minutes late again for the weekly meeting, but my boss did not even _____ me as I slipped quietly into the conference room.
4.I _____ work every morning by ferry.
5.Mrs. Ferguson _____ furiously at the neighborhood children when she found them walking through her garden with their dogs.
6.Thomas, please don’t _____ your tea. It’s rude! Try to sip it more quietly.
7.All of father’s tools _____ in the back of the truck every time we hit a bump.
8.If Peter and Christine were taking the three o'clock bus, they really _____ here by now!
9.It’s very quiet upstairs. The children _____.
10.Julie’s keys, wallet, and books are there on the table, so she _____ to class.
11.Hey, where’s that pint of coffee ice cream I bought last week? My roommate _____!
12.Check the second drawer from the top. The bottle opener _____ there. That’s where we usually keep it.
13.The weather report indicates that _____ very cold tomorrow.
14.There’s always a lot of traffic on the highway at this hour, so Jeannie is _____ to be late for the party.
15.Marcus does very well in school. He _____ hard!
16.My brother is a huge fan of action-thriller novels, because they’re so _____ and exciting.
17.I generally dislike the fantasy genre because I find the magical elements too _____.
18.Romance novels can be _____, but they really don’t contain many complex or profound ideas. They’re best suited to casual reading on the beach or on a plane.
19.I found Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s debut novel Purple Hibiscus to be _____ moving. I was still thinking about it for weeks after I finished it.
20.The 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird is a _____ adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The screenwriter and the director changed almost nothing from the book.
21.I couldn’t finish the novel about the war. It was just too _____.
22.The premise of the plot was interesting, but the narrative was so _____, I quickly lost interest and never finished the book.
23.Mr. Perkins may have seemed like just a _____ janitor at an elementary school, but he was actually really well-read, and he wrote some very beautiful poetry.
24.I absolutely loved the book. Never before _____ a novel that was so completely riveting from start to finish!
25.My roommates both went downtown for the day after we finished cleaning the apartment. _____ was I finally able to sit down and read my book in peace.
26._____ had I sat down to read when my doorbell rang.
27._____ you finish the book will you fully understand its message.
28.The movie adaptation was very good, but only when _____ the original book can you really understand what’s going on in the story.
29.Not only _____ quirky, entertaining stories, but she’s also a lot of fun in person.
30.No sooner had I pulled out of the parking space _____ a massive pickup truck rammed into the back end of my car.