Cecily

Question 1

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‘‘I dont like……. It isnt at all a…….’’’

Answer 1

'’I dont like German. It isnt at all a becoming Language.’’ A2

Question 2

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‘‘Dear Uncle…… is so very…..!’’

Answer 2

'’Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious!’’

Question 3

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‘‘I keep a…… in order to enter the………. of my….’’

Answer 3

A2 - ‘‘I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life’’

Question 4

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‘‘I dont like…… that end…… They depress me……’’

Answer 4

I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.- A2

Question 5

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‘‘Horrid………! Horrid……! Horrid, horrid…….!’’

Answer 5

“Horrid Political Economy! Horrid Geography! Horrid, horrid German!” A2

Question 6

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‘‘I have never…… any really……. before. I feel rather…… I am so afraid he will look…….’’

Answer 6

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else”- A2

Question 7

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‘‘I hope you have not been…… a……., pretending to be……. and being really….. all the time. That would be……’’

Answer 7

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”- A2

Question 8

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‘‘Well, i know, of course, how important it is not to…….., if one wants to retain any sense of the…….’’

Answer 8

“Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life”- A2

Question 9

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‘‘It is rather…… of you’’

Answer 9

“It is rather Quixotic of you”- A2

Question 10

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‘‘But what……. you have got on!’’

Answer 10

“But what horrid clothes you have got on!”- A2

Question 11

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‘‘I think your…… does you………… credit’’

Answer 11

“I think your frankness does you great credit”-A2 (contextualise)

Question 12

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‘‘Oh no…. it is simply a young girls…….. of her own…… and….., and consequently meant for……’’

Answer 12

“Oh no… it is simply a young girl’s publication of her own thought and impressions, and consequently meant for publication”-A2

Question 13

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‘‘Why, we have been…… for the last…’’

Answer 13

“Why, we have been engaged for the last three months”- A2

Question 14

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‘‘the three you wrote me after………. are so beautiful and so…….. that even now i can hardly read them………. a little’’

Answer 14

“the three you wrote me after I broke off the engagement are so beautiful and so badly spelled that even no I can hardly read them without crying a little”-A2

Question 15

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‘‘To-day i broke off my….. with….. I feel it is better…… The weather still……..’’

Answer 15

“‘To-day I broke off my engagement with Ernest. I feel it is better to do so. The weather still continues charming’”- A2

Question 16

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‘‘It wouldnt have been a really….. engagement if it hadnt been……. at least…’’

Answer 16

“it wouldn’t have been a really serious engagement if it hadn’t been broken off at least once”-A2

Question 17

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‘‘I hope your hair…….., does it’’

Answer 17

“I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?”-A2

Question 18

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‘‘it had always been a…….. of mine to love one………. was……’’

Answer 18

“it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love one whose name was Ernest”-A2

Question 19

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‘‘but i dont like the……….’’.

Answer 19

“but I don’t like the name of Algernon”- A2

Question 20

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‘‘couldnt you make it………’’

Answer 20

“couldn’t you make it twenty minutes”-A2

Question 21

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‘‘I like his hair……’’

Answer 21

“I like his hair so much”- A2

Question 22

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‘‘Miss……. I suppose one of the…….. good………’’

Answer 22

“Miss Fairfax! I suppose one of the many good elderly women….” - A2

Question 23

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‘‘I dont quite like……. who are interested in………. work’’

Answer 23

“I don’t quite like quiet women who are interested in philanthropic work”- A2

Question 24

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‘‘I am very……. of being……. at’’

Answer 24

“I am very fond of being looked at”- A2

Question 25

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‘‘Our little…….. is sure to chronicle the….. next week’’

Answer 25

“our little country newspaper is sure to chronicle the fact next week”- A2

Question 26

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‘‘[shows her…..]’’

Answer 26

[shows her diary]- A2

Question 27

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‘‘[sternly, in a……]’’

Answer 27

[sternly, in a calm voice]-A2

Question 28

[sweetly]”

Answer 28

[sweetly]”

Question 29

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‘‘I suppose that is why you……..’’

Answer 29

I suppose that is why you live in town?”- A2

Question 30

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‘‘Oh, flowers are as……. here, Miss Fairfax, as…… are in……’’

Answer 30

“Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London”- A2

Question 31

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‘‘[Cecily looks…… at her, takes up the…… and puts four….. in the cup’’

Answer 31

[Cecily looks angrily at her, takes up the tongs and puts four lumps of sugar in the cup]- A2

Question 32

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‘‘[cuts a very large…….. and puts it on……..]

Answer 32

[cuts a very large slice of cake and puts it on the tray]- A2