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little! How naked! (e) What bold!” she said softly. The baby was (f) push his way
between the cubs to get close to the warm (g) hiding. “Aha! He is taking his meal with
(h) other. And so this is a man’s cub.

a. (i) direction (ii) directly (iii) directed (iv) indirectly
b. (i) branches (ii) as a branch (iii) branching (iv) branch

c. (i) ever (ii) every (iii) once (iv) always
d. (i) see (ii) been seen (iii) seen (iv) sawed

e. (i) Where (ii) How (iii) When (iv) Why

f. (i) had pushed (ii) pushover (iii) pushing (iv) pushes
g. (i) hide (ii) hidden (iii) hid (iv) hides
h. (i) rounds (ii) many (iii) another (iv) others

Answers: (a) (ii) directly (b) (iv) branch (c) (i) ever (d) (iii) seen
(e) (ii) How (f) (iii) pushing (g) (i) hide (h) (iv) others

4. Charlie took his first (a) bows on stage when his mother made her last (b) appeared. It
happened when her voice broke (c) within a song. Her son stepped on (d) stages and
sang a popular song. That’s when a star was born. (e) By all these years of success,
Charlie (f) ever forgot his troubled childhood. It made him (g) recalls a Christmas
when he was denied two oranges and his bag of sweets for breaking a rule at (h) a
orphanage he went to after his mother’s death.

a. (i) bow (ii) bowed (iii) bower (iv) unbowed
b. (i) appear (ii) appearance (iii) disappeared (iv) apparent

c. (i) middle (ii) amidst (iii) inside (iv) during
d. (i) upstage (ii) staged (iii) stage (iv) a stage

e. (i) Through (ii) As (iii) In (iv) Over
f. (i) every day (ii) never (iii) often (iv) once

g. (i) recalled (ii) recalling (iii) recall (iv) calling
h. (i) an (ii) the (iii) one (iv) main

Answers: (a) (i) bow (b) (ii) appearance (c) (iv) during (d) (iii) stage
(e) (i) Through (f) (ii) never (g) (iii) recall (d) (ii) the

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