COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH A SUITABLE WORD 

1. It was a very dark night. All I could see of the fishermen was the _________ of their cigarettes. 

2. She worked late into the night; her face was illuminated by the _________ candle. 

3. Her plan to murder her husband was completed: His blood was _________ on her hands. 

4. We were _________ by the light coming from the lighthouse. 

5. The last train had left. Now there was not a _________ of hope that she could attend the meeting the following day. 

6. It was a cloudless night, the stars _________ brightly. 

7. The Queen's jewels _________ as she sat on the throne. 

8. The postman, who comes early in the morning always finds it difficult to read the house numbers in the _________. 

9. When the atom bomb went off there was a large _________ followed by a strong wind. 

10. That plug socket is unsafe. Last time I used it, it gave out a big _________. 

II. The moon was high, the sea was calm, and the moonlight _________ on the sea.

 JOHN & SARAH 1994