II. Cloze and Writing: 30% 
(A) Instructions: Fill in each blank with a proper word to make the article meaningful and fluent. 10%        When aunt Judith asked me to do her a favor by stopping by her old house, which had been locked up for a year, to get herold travelling-clock, I could only (1) __________. The old house was a medium-sized red-brick house, (2) __________ byitself in a high-walled garden bounded by a narrow lane. As soon as I got in, I looked hurriedly for the clock. The (3)__________ in the house was carefully covered with white dust-sheets. After I went upstairs, I made a search in the bedrooms.There was no sign of the clock. The impression that the house gave me was neither pleasing nor displeasing, but it was stuffydue to the (4) __________ of fresh air. The last door that I unlocked contained the object of my (5) __________. Aunt Judith’stravelling-clock was on the mantelpiece, ticking away merrily.     That was what I thought in the beginning, and then for the first time I realized that there was something wrong. It had no(6) b s to be ticking. The house had been shut up for a year. No one had come in to (7) a it or to lightfires, and yet the clock was going. I wondered if some vibration had set the mechanism in (8) __________, and pulled out mywatch to check the time. It was the correct time. By this time I was really frightened. The thought of being in that empty housewas almost too much for me. However, I made an attempt to (9) __________ myself together. I took it out of its case and beganto wind since I could roughly find out how long the clock had been going by winding it up. I had (10) s__________turned the winding screw twice when it stopped. The clock definitely was not running down. I felt cold and faint. Couldsomeone be living in the house? Was someone else in the house now? Then, I heard a faint scratching noise coming slowlydown the corridor…
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