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When he saw the cottage, over amongst some bushes with a rank growth of nettles at one end, he_______________(think) it was a miserable place.

1. thinks
2. thought
3. thinked
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

But when he came close to the peeling lime wash the torn-down ivy, sagging roof, the (ii)__________(break) stone doorstep,

1. breaks
2. broken
3. breaking
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

thick with trampled mud, he saw that it was a wretched house. The door (iii)________________(stand) half-open, stuck.

1. stood
2. is standing
3. had been standing
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

He knocked at it and (iv)____________(listen) to the acute silence.

1. was listening
2. had been listening
3. listened
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

He knocked again firmly and thought he (v) ____________ (hear) thin whisperings.

1. could hear
2. had been hearing
3. was hearing
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

He did not like the (vi) ____________ (hush) fear in the sounds,

1. hushing
2. hushed
3. hush
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

and was just about (vii) _____________ (knock) peremptorily when there was a shuftling and as quietly as an apparition,

1. knocked
2. knocking
3. to knock
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

a woman (vii) _______________ (is) there.

1. be
2. is
3. was
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 3