1. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for your ......... of our performance.

appearance

appreciation

appeasement

apparition

2. We have done this play many times in different towns but your ......... has been the greatest so far.

appointment

application

apposition

applause

3. We will always remember the way you stood up and ......... at some of the speeches in the play.

clapped

clopped

clipped

clammed

4. Our leading actor is unable to come on the stage at the moment because he is ......... with emotion.

overtaken

overdrawn

overcome

overturned

5. Don't worry I'm sure it's only ......... and that he'll soon recover before the next performance.

temperate

temporary

contemporary

temporarily

6. That is the reason why I am standing here and making this short ..........

speak

speaking

spoke

speech

7. The leading lady is also absent from our stage and you can probably hear her ......... her heart out as I speak.

sobbing

soaking

spitting

calling

8. I think that the main ......... for all this emotion is probably the way you have reacted to the play.

ratio

reason

ration

rate

9. You see throughout our ......... season we have never received so much laughter as we have from you.

currant

curious

current

curtain

10. The reason for this is possibly that you thought it was a ......... but in fact it is a tragedy.

comic

comedy

comedian

comely

11. Will the driver of the blue Ford Fiesta XYZ 343 please ......... their car.

send

move

take

tow

12. The reason for this is that the Fiesta is ......... our delivery lorry from leaving the premises.

holding

keeping

preventing

promoting

13. We ask the ......... of this vehicle to go back to their car as soon as possible and park their car in another space.

possessor

possessing

ownership

owner

14. This is a customer .......... We have a special offer at the moment on bananas.

audition

announcement

statement

prediction

15. For the next hour it will be possible to buy just one ......... of bananas and get one more free.

bunch

branch

hand

group

16. Further to our ......... for the Ford Fiesta to be reparked, this matter is now very urgent. Our lorry cannot get out.

saying

asking

request

question

17. We have to inform our customers that the store will be closing in half an hour's ..........

o'clock

time

hour

duration

18. We would like to ......... our customers that over the Christmas period we will be closing an hour earlier than usual.

remember

retake

repeat

remind

19. There are now only ten minutes remaining for you to make your ......... and go to the checkout.

purchases

buying

sales

selling

20. A final ......... for the driver of the Ford Fiesta: there is no need now to repark as our delivery lorry has done that for you!

note

message

saying

hint