Book Review. Use of English B1+

The strangest figures we saw … the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest.

They wore high boots, with their trousers … into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be … old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

"My Friend.-Welcome to the Carpathians. I am … expecting you. Sleep we tonight.

At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it …          (keep)

for you.

At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will … you to me.

I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will … your stay in my beautiful land.

I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to … the best place on the coach for me.

When l asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife … themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further.

It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask any one else, for it was all very mysterious and not … comforting.

Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a very … way:

"Must you go? Oh! Young Herr, must you go?"

She was in such an excited state that she seemed to … her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all.