Gorillas & Co. (CPE Reading, Selective Cloze)?

The first thing Inspector Highgate noticed on entering his office was the ---glimmersparkleflickerglow of the cigarette. It seemed to spare menacingly at him, like the motionless red ey of a fierce animal ---lurkingprowlingstalkingcreeping in the shadows in the corner of the room. He could just ---draw outwork output outmake out the bulky contours of his new assistant's body as he leaned backwards in his chair. It was unnerving. Did he enjoy making people uneasy? 'Hello, Howard,' he said brightly, expecting no answer and ---recallingrememberingreminiscingreminding himself for the hundredth time that he would be ritiring in just under a month. In that time he was expected to ---tellhandgiveshow the man the ropes, so that he could take over when Highgate left. He knew that Howard's appointment would be ---inattofor the detriment of the department, but it had not been his decision. Someone higher up the ladder had unexpectedly taken the matter out of his hands.

Austen Grove, whose new novel, A Dublin Childhood, took the publishing world by ---forcestormtempestthunder last week, is intensely wary of publicity. During interviews he unfailingly (and quite maddeningly) ---displaysexercisesholdskeeps his right to refuse to answer questions he perceives as being too personal. And that, I'm afraid, is most questions. His interview with me didn't ---finish upend upturn outwind up to be any different. 'I'm a very shy man at heart, you know,' he pointed out on first meeting me. My evident disbelief in the truth of this remark was greeted by a wry smile. 'I've always found it difficult to relate to other people. Even when I was studying in Dublin with a ---viewgoaltargetpurpose to becoming an actor one day, I was regarded as being extremely antisocial and eccentric. I ---madetookgotcame up against all sort of problems, which were the result entirely of my feeling ill at ease with other people. Fortunately for me -- and for the rest of the world, I suppose -- I dropped acting and became a writer of novels instead. Being in the ---floodlightlimelightheadlighttwilight now doesn't come easily.'