He did not like the (vi) ____________ (hush) fear in the sounds,
1.hushing
2.hushed
3.hush
a woman (vii) _______________ (is) there.
1.be
2.is
3.was
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
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
He knocked at it and (iv)____________(listen) to the acute silence.
1.was listening
2.had been listening
3. listened
He knocked again firmly and thought he (v) ____________ (hear) thin whisperings.
1. could hear
2.had been hearing
3.was hearing
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
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