Mr Jones woke early one morning, before the sun had ___36____. It was a beautiful morning. So he went to the ___37____ and looked out. He was ___38____ to see a neatly dressed middle-aged professor, who worked in the university just up the road from Mr Johns's house, ___39____ in the direction of the town. He had grey hair and thick glasses, and was __40_____ an umbrella, a morning newspaper and a bag. Mr Johns ____41___ that he must have arrived by the ___42____ train and decided to walk to the university instead of taking a ____43___.
Mr Johns had a big tree in his garden, and the children had ____44___ a long rope to one of its ___45____ , so that they could swing on it.
Mr Jones was surprised to see the professor ___46____ when he saw the ___47____, and look carefully up and down the road. When he saw that there was ___48____ in sight, he stepped into the garden, put his ___49____ on the grass and took hold of the rope. He pulled it ___50____ to see whether it was ___51____ enough to take his weight, then ran as fast as he could and swung into the ___52____ at the end of the rope. Backwards and forwards he swung, occasionally taking a ___53____ more steps on the grass when the rope began to swing too slow for him.
At last the professor stopped, straightened his tie, combed his hair carefully, put on his hat, ____54___ up his umbrella, newspaper and bag and continued on his walk to the university, ___55____ as quiet and correct and respected as one would expect a professor to be.
36. A. raised B. risen C. set D. sunk
37. A. window B. door C. roof D. wall
38. A. glad B. pleased C. worried D. surprised
39. A. coming B. going C. running D. leaving
40. A. holding B. having C. carrying D. fetching
41. A. found B. decided C. understood D. realized
42. A. first B. day C. night D. last
43. A. truck B. taxi C. car D. train
44. A. put B. placed C. laid D. tied
45. A. trees B. branches C. bodies D. trunks
46. A. stop B. leave C. fly D. climb
47. A. house B. tree C. garden D. rope
48. A. none B. nobody C. anybody D. everybody
49. A. belongings B. clothes C. books D. handbags
50. A. quickly B. hard C. tightly D. slowly
51. A. strong B. thick C. smooth D. long
52. A. woods B. tree C. air D. space
53. A. lot B. great C. little D. few
54. A. got B. picked C. sent D. put
55. A. seeming B. remaining C. looking D. watching
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