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As a joke, one of them decided to (4) the handle of the night safe a
pull, and to his amazement it opened because it was unlocked. He couldn’t
believe his eyes when he saw the money inside. After a short discussion, he
and his friend (5 )______ the bank notes and (6 )_______away. Unfortunately
___was being (8 )_______by security cameras.
for them, however, the (7 )_____
The money was reported (9) _____on the following Monday morning and
the teenagers were (10) _____ for the crime within the week. Although
neither of them would be (11)___ ___ upon as a “master criminal”, they both
nevertheless ended up with criminal (12)______ .
At what’s (13) ______ a juvenile court they were each ordered to pay a
£300 (14) ______ . In addition to this, they were ordered to write letters of
apology to the bank they had (1 5 )______the money from. Lloyds Bank were
later said to be reviewing their security Systems.

1. A. met B. came c. chanced D. found
2. A. around B. over c. OÍT D. up
3. A. hardly B. something c. nothing D. little
4. A. fetch B. give c. put D .take
5. A. picked B. swept c. held D. grabbed
6. A. disappeared B.popped c. ran D. made
7. A. theft B. fraud c. burglary D. lorgéry
8. A. registered B. received c. recalled D.recorded
9. A. absent B. vacant c. missing D. empty
10. A. arrested B.sentenced c . charged D. convicted
11. A. regarded B. looked c. viewed D. considered
12. A. notes B. documents c. charts D.records
13. A. titled B. known c. cedled D. named
14. A. reward B. reíund c. fee D. fine
15. A. stolen B. raided c. mugged D. cheated

36. M ASTER OF SU SP E N SE
In 1926, the young íllm director, Alfred Hitchcock, made what is now
regarded as his lírst masterpiece called The Lodger. It was the story of an
innocent man wrongly (1 )______of murder and it established its director as
a (2) ______talent. Although now acknovvledged as the best British fílm of
the era, fĩlm distributors at the (3 )______did not think it worthy of general
release. For months it sat on the shelf while its director reílected on the thin
line that (4) ______ success and lailure. That thin line was to haunt him
throughout his sixty years of fllm-making.
In a (5) ______ that began with hand-cranked cameras and silent movie
stars and ended with his blockbuster thrillers of the 1950s and 1960s,
Hitchcock tasted success and lailure in (6 )______ equal measure. His subject
(7 )______courted controversy and his style alternately balíled and thrilled
audiences and critics (8 )______ .

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