Read the text and choose the
correct word – A, B or C.

            Miss
Lucy Partridge, 47, who lives alone 1 ……
 18 Station Road, Middletown, awoke
at 3 a.m. on Sunday and saw a tall man 2
…….  in her room.

            She
jumped out of 3 …….. and threw a
chair 4 ……. him as he ran down the
stairs. She ran to the bedroom window, opened it, and threw another chair as he
was getting out of a downstairs window by which he 5 ……..

            As
he ran down the street, Miss Partridge stood at her bedroom window and shouted
for help. Neighbours phoned for the police. Every room in the house had been
entered, and £ 100 in noted and a gold watch 6 ……..

            Police
dogs were used, but the man 7 ……..

8 Choose the title for the article which fits
best (the newspaper with the article is not a tabloid):

 

0.     
A in;          `           B at;   
           ``         C near

1.     
A stood;    `           B to stand;      ``         C standing

2.     
A bed;       `           B the bed;       ``         C a bed

3.     
A to;          `           B at;                ``         C
behind

4.     
A entered;             `           B had entered; `         C had been
entered

5.     
A were
missing;    B was missing;           C were missed

6.     
A was caught;       B
was not caught;      C had not been caught

7.     
A   Threw Chairs at Burglar

B   Chair-Loving Burglar

C   Can Partridge Be Brave?