Oral Examination 7

Read the following passage.

B

Alan staggered across the room ----1---- get some water. His burning throat seemed ---2---
have affected his voice as he struggled to call out for his sister. His weak trembling hands ----
3---- hardly hold on to his thick porcelain cup. There was no sign of his ----4---- who was
supposed to be back from school.
Just when he was ----5---- to drag himself back to his bed, he heard noises coming from the
living roo. He caught sight ----6---- some clothes piled on the sofa. Something ----7---- was
wriggling. For a moment,----8---- was petrified. Before he could regain his
composure, something suddenly burst out ----9---- the pile, leaving him in total shock,
Someone with a mass of black locks ----10---- out a huge cry, "Ah! I found it!"

Alan nearly fell off his ----11---- before he realised it was his sister.

"What were you doing? I thought you ----12---- a monster!" Alan complained in his coarse
voice.

His bespectacled sister looked up from the gigantic mess and ----13---- excitedly "Guess what,
I found the report on ----14---- choir performance! Look at me!" She pointed to a pin-sized
photograph as she grinned ----15---- Alan could not help but laugh, forgetting his chronic
headache.