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Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the town there were more ___ , there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell-fire

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was all as I had left it except that now it was spring. I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk, the window open and the ___ coming into the room

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was dusk when the priest came. They had brought the soup and afterward taken away the bowls and I was lying looking at the rows of beds and out the window at the tree-top that moved a little in the evening

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was like being put to bed after early supper. The orderly came down between the beds and stopped. Someone was ___ him. It was the priest

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been there gone and everything sharp and ___ and clear and sometimes a dispute about the cost

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That night at the mess I sat ___ the priest and he was disappointed and suddenly hurt that I had not gone to the Abruzzi. He had written to his father that I was coming and they had made preparations

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The breeze came in through the window and it was cooler with the evening. The ___ were on the ceiling now and on the electric light bulbs that hung on wires

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The door was open, there was a soldier sitting on a bench outside in the sun, an ambulance was waiting ___ the side door and inside the door, as I went in, there was a smell of marble floors and hospitals

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The room I ___ with the lieutenant Rinaldi looked out on the courtyard. The window was open, my bed was made up with blankets and my things hung on the wall, the gas-mask in an oblong tin can, the steel helmet on the same peg

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The telescope that fitted it was, I remembered, locked in the trunk. The lieutenant, Rinaldi, lay asleep on the other bed. He woke when he ___ me in the room and sat up

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The vermouth he held up for me to see and then put it on the floor beside the bed. I held up one of the ___ of English papers

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: We two were talking while the others argued. I had wanted to go to Abruzzi. I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as ___ , where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and hare-tracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When I came back to the front we still lived in that town. There were many more guns in the country around and the spring had ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountain beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel The fields were green and there were small green ___ on the vines, the trees along the road had small leaves and a breeze came from the sea:

Choose the right preposition: .. He also ran errands ___ the ward, and in his spare time made a cigarette-lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle-cartridge

Choose the right preposition: ... I read the Corriere della Sera and the English and American papers from Paris. All the advertisements were blacked out, supposedly to prevent communication ___ that way with the enemy

Choose the right preposition: A soldier sat outside the door that opened on to the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried ___ the garden

Choose the right preposition: But I knew ___ the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come

Choose the right preposition: But we did not stay up very late. We went to bed ___ the dark in the big bedroom

Choose the right preposition: He had been a head-waiter and she had worked as maid ___ the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place

Choose the right preposition: He was not allowed to make an explanation. He cried when they read the sentence ___ the pad of paper and cried while they led him off, and they were questioning another when they shot him

Choose the right preposition: I did not watch them shoot him but I heard the shots. They were questioning someone else. This officer too was separated ___ his troops

Choose the right preposition: I held on ___ the timber with both hands and let it take me along. The shore was out of sight now

Choose the right preposition: I sat in the corner with a heavy mug of dark beer and an opened glazed-paper package of pretzels and ate the pretzels ___ the salty flavour and the good way they made the beer taste and read about disaster

Choose the right preposition: I sat ___ the little booth and watched

Choose the right preposition: I thought Catherine would come but she did not come, so I hung the papers back on the rack, paid ___ my beer and went up the street to look for her

Choose the right preposition: I was obviously a German ___ Italian uniform. I saw how their minds worked; if they had minds and if they worked. They were all young men and they were saving their country. The second army was being re-formed beyond the Tagliamento

Choose the right preposition: If anyone were going to die they put a screen around the bed so you could not see them die, but only the shoes and puttees of doctors and men nurses showed under the bottom of the screen and sometimes ___ the end there would be whispering

Choose the right preposition: If you lay ___ your left side you could see the dressing-room door. There was another door at the far end that people sometimes came in by

Choose the right preposition: In front of the house where we lived the mountain went down steeply to the little plain along the lake and we sat on the porch of the house in the sun and saw the winding of the road down the mountain-side and the terraced vineyards ___ the side of the lower mountain, the vines all dead now for the winter and the fields divided by stone walls, and below the vineyards the houses of the town on the narrow plain along the lake shore

Choose the right preposition: In front of the house where we lived the mountain went down steeply to the little plain along the lake and we sat on the porch of the house ___ the sun and saw the winding of the road down the mountain-side and the terraced vineyards on the side of the lower mountain, the vines all dead now for the winter and the fields divided by stone walls, and below the vineyards the houses of the town on the narrow plain along the lake shore

Choose the right preposition: In the town we walked along the main street and looked in the windows ___ the shops

Choose the right preposition: It was exciting to watch and Catherine smiled and talked ___ me and my voice was a little thick from being excited

Choose the right preposition: Mr. and Mrs. Guttingen lived downstairs and we would hear them talking sometimes ___ the evening and they were very happy together too

Choose the right preposition: Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early ___ the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove

Choose the right preposition: My leg ached and I was tired but we made good time. It seemed so silly ___ Bonello to have decided to be taken prisoner

Choose the right preposition: Out on the lake there were flocks of grebes, small and dark, and leaving trails ___ the water when they swam

Choose the right preposition: Outside, ___ front of the chalet a road went up the mountain

Choose the right preposition: Sometimes we walked down the mountains into Montreux. There was a path went down the mountain but it was steep and so usually we took the road and walked down on the wide hard road between fields and then below between the stone walls of the vineyards and on down ___ the houses of the villages along the way

Choose the right preposition: Sometimes we went off the road and ___ a path through the pine forest. The floor of the forest was soft to walk on; the frost did not harden it as it did the road

Choose the right preposition: That morning the major in charge ___ the ward asked me if I felt that I could travel the next day. I said I could. He said that they would ship me out early in the morning. He said I would be better off making the trip now before it got too hot

Choose the right preposition: That was a very strange night. I do not know what I had expected-death perhaps, and shooting ___ the dark, and running, but nothing happened

Choose the right preposition: The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone ___ the houses looked cold. Catherine was still in the hairdresser’s shop

Choose the right preposition: The mountains were sharp and steep on the other side of the lake and down at the end of the lake was the plain of the Rhone Valley flat ___ the two ranges of mountains; and up the valley where the mountains cut it off was the Dent du Midi

Choose the right preposition: The pine wood crackled and sparkled and then the fire roared in the stove and the second time Mrs. Guttingen came into the room she brought big chunks ___ wood for the fire and a pitcher of hot water

Choose the right preposition: The road went down a long grade below the chвteau and then turned to the right and went down very steeply and paved ___ cobbles, into Montreux

Choose the right preposition: The room was long with windows on the right-hand side and a door at the far end that went ___ the dressing-room

Choose the right preposition: The row ___ beds that mine was in faced the windows and another row, under the windows, faced the wall

Choose the right preposition: The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm ___ the booth