Whar Drives Me Mad is - Lesson 215
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. One morning, I had waited for fifteen minutes ___(1)___ a telephone box. Inside a young lady was talking excitedly into the receiver. She was laughing and kept moving about, spending a good deal of her time looking at me ___(2)___ I grew more and more impatient. Finally, after she ___(3)___ her call, I went angrily ___(4)___ the box. When I tried ___(5)___ my coins into the coin box, they refused to go. While I tried again, there was a knocking ___(6)___ the door. I took ___(7)___ notice and again tried to insert my coins. Still they refused to go and again there was a knocking, even louder than before. I turned angrily and opened the door, beside which stood a man. I told him to go away, but he said that he ___(8)___ to repair the box ___(9)___ a coin had got stuck in it. I wondered ___(10)___ the young lady had been able to make her call.
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