The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn't amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. He had __________ he would soon return to his sheep.

A．resumed	B．assumed
C．accomplished	D．acknowledged

He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of the wind that brought the scent of the desert. When he had finished his smoke, he __________ one of his pockets, and sat there for a few moments, regarding what he had withdrawn.

A．turned to	B．picked up
C．held on to	D．reached into

"I'm looking for a treasure," said the boy, and he immediately regretted having said it. But the Englishman appeared not to________ it.

A．catch a glimpse of	B．set foot on
C．leaf through	D．attach any importance to

He had unraveled the truths behind important questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond which he could not seem to go. He had tried__________ to establish a relationship with an alchemist. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought only about themselves,and almost always refused to help him.

A．in vain	B．in a flash
C．in return	D．in possession

"They are so used to me that they know my schedule," he muttered. Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around: that it was he who had __________their schedule.

A．become attached to	B．been captured by
C．become accustomed to	D．become separated from

The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was what made traveling__________ him—he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them.

A．concentrate on	B．appeal to
C．hold back	D．depend on

As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began his chant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads to the ground, and__________ the chant. Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left.

A．picked up	B．looked forward to
C．aimed at	D．took up

"It's in Egypt, near the Pyramids. "
The boy was startled. The old woman had said the same thing. But she hadn't__________ him anything.

A．charged	B．urged
C．convinced	D．nourished

Relaxed and unhurried, he__________ that he would walk through the narrow streets of Tangier. Only in that way would he be able to read the omens. He knew it would require a lot of patience, but shepherds know all about patience.

A．resolved	B．sensed
C．applied	D．reminded

"Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might have died if we had ___________a snake. But that's the way life is with sheep and with shepherds.”

A．come upon	B．wait on
C．live with	D．put together