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Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.
A number of patients wait at the (1) ______of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) ______being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) ______. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) ______is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) ______. Everyone is (6) ______at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) ______and later on she takes in a (8) ______. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) ______, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) ______and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) ______, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) ______about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) ______to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) ______. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) ______had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.
| hammer | patient |
| hacksaw | cabinet |
| frightened | queue |
| worried | waiting room |
| pliers | tooth |
| photographs | clinic |
| toothache | sawing |
| appointment |
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Solution
A number of patients wait at the (1) Waiting room of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) tooth being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) photographs. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) patient is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) hammer. Everyone is (6) frightened at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) pliers and later on she takes in a (8) hacksaw. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) toothache, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) sawing and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) clinic, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) worried about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) appointment to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) cabinet. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) queue had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.
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