Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all grey ____ 1 ____ hoar-frost and the ripple
lapping softly on the stones. The captain had _____ 2____ earlier than usual and set out down the beach. Mother was upstairs with
father and I was _____ 3____ the breakfast table against the captain’s return when the parlour door opened and a man stepped in on
whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand, and ______ 4____ he
wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter. I had always my eye open for seafaring ______ 5_____ with one leg or two, and I
remember this one puzzled me. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
