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My uncle John used to live in a beautiful little house by the sea in Atlantic City. I say he "used to" live there
1 he doesn't live there any more. He was killed two years ago.
Uncle John wrote novels. He not only
2 his job, but also made a lot of money by doing it. When he died,
he had $60 million in the bank.
After Uncle John's death, I came to stay in his house for a while. I had been there for two days when I
3 a message on the screen of the old computer. I was very surprised, because I thought the computer had been
4 . The message said, "You have new
5 !" When I read it, I thought it looked like the
6 of a novel. "This
looks interesting. " I thought, "It must be
7 one of Uncle John's friends." I decided I should make an answer
to the e-mail to tell him or her that Uncle John was
8 . However, the computer would not let me
9 .
Every day for the next three weeks, more e-mails kept arriving. I printed
10 of all of them. The story was
about Jane Winterbourne, a young writer working on her first novel. She sent her novel to Jack Tanner, an old
writer and asked him to
11 her to publish it. However, he cheated her, and published the novel himself
pretending that he had
12 it. The novel was very
13 . Tanner made a lot of money, and bought himself a
house by the sea in Atlantic City. It was then that I realized that "Jack Tanner" and "Jane Winterbourne" were
14 names. "Jack" was
15 to be Uncle John.
( )1. A. so
( )2. A. lost
( )3. A. sent
( )4. A. broken down
( )5. A. information
( )6. A. picture
( )7. A. like
( )8. A. dead
( )9. A. play
( )10. A. copies
( )11. A. teach
( )12. A. missed
( )13. A. new
( )14. A. false
( )15. A. pointed |
B. because
B. finished
B. noticed
B. turned off
B. post
B. story
B. about
B. sick
B. reply
B. pieces
B. help
B. corrected
B. expensive
B. true
B. spelt |
C. though
C. changed
C. read
C. sold out
C. mail
C. end
C. from
C. out
C. watch
C. parts
C. show
C. written
C. important
C. long
C. meant |
D. once
D. enjoyed
D. typed
D. put away
D. business
D. beginning
D. to
D. busy
D. stop
D. covers
D. refuse
D. bought
D. successful
D. beautiful
D. called |