They didn’t say anything to each other for a moment, and then finally Father ___________.

A．broke into laughter	B．licked his lips
C．raised his voice	D．broke the silence

He could feel tears ___________ behind his eyes and wanted nothing more than for Father to realize just how awful a place Out-With really was and agree that it was time to leave.

A．fading	B．welling up
C．dismissing	D．leaking

She just got on with her job, ___________ the furniture, washing the clothes, helping with the shopping and the cooking, sometimes taking him to school and collecting him again, although that had been more common when Bruno was eight; when he turned nine he decided he was old enough to make his way- there and home alone.

A．polishing	B．discarding
C．resisting	D．irritating

‘No,’ she insisted, her voice becoming grating now as she ___________ him. ‘Just keep quiet about it, Bruno. Don’t you know how much trouble you could cause? For all of us?’

A．applied to	B．appealed to
C．intended to	D．was not obliged to

‘You shouldn’t laugh at poor Herr Roller,’ Mother had told him one afternoon when he had ___________ the story, of his latest escapade. ‘You have no idea what he’s been through in his life.’

A．convinced	B．applied
C．related	D．recalled

Well, if Father’s job means that we have to move away from our house and the sliding banister and my three best friends for life, then I think Father should ___________ about his job, don’t you?

A．have big things in mind	B．let the matters drop
C．stretch out	D．think twice

‘Although I’m sure you’ll see them again in time. And don’t ____________ your mother when she’s talking, please,’ she added, for although this was strange and unpleasant news, there was certainly no need for Bruno to break the rules of politeness which he had been taught.

A．watch	B．interrupt
C．protest	D．reveal

There was a plaque ___________ the top of the bench but she couldn't read the inscription from this distance.

A．secured on	B．tangled in
C．applied to	D．attached to

Bruno was sure that it would have ___________ if they had left Gretel behind in Berlin to look after the house because she was nothing but trouble.

A．made it clear	B．broken the rules of politeness
C．made a lot more sense	D．received a small pension

Instead the ground was made of a sand-like substance, and as far as she could ___________ there was nothing but low huts and large square buildings dotted around and one or two smoke stacks in the distance.

A．make sense	B．make out
C．make the best	D．make it clear