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

The first thing Inspector Highgate noticed on entering his office was the ---flickerglowsparkleglimmer of the cigarette. It seemed to spare menacingly at him, like the motionless red ey of a fierce animal ---prowlinglurkingstalkingcreeping in the shadows in the corner of the room. He could just ---put outwork outmake outdraw 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 ---rememberingrecallingreminiscingreminding himself for the hundredth time that he would be ritiring in just under a month. In that time he was expected to ---handshowgivetell the man the ropes, so that he could take over when Highgate left. He knew that Howard's appointment would be ---intoatfor 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 ---tempeststormthunderforce last week, is intensely wary of publicity. During interviews he unfailingly (and quite maddeningly) ---holdsexercisesdisplayskeeps 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 ---wind upturn outend upfinish 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 ---goaltargetviewpurpose to becoming an actor one day, I was regarded as being extremely antisocial and eccentric. I ---camemadegottook 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 ---floodlighttwilightheadlightlimelight now doesn't come easily.'