Night visitor She put the key in the keyhole as quietly as she could but she found it __1__ as the door was old and rusty. As she __2__ opened the door, it squeaked __3__ on its old hinges. I wish they'd oil the thing a bit more __4__ ,' she muttered to herself __5__ . She closed the door __6__ behind her and then tiptoed __7__ across the room. Unfortunately, this time it was the floorboards that betrayed her as they creaked __8__ with every step she took. It had been so __9__ since the old house had been built - it had __10__ been about two hundred years before and for all Helen knew they had __11__ replaced the original floorboards. Helen's heart began to beat __12__ . It was one o'clock. Helen's parents must have gone to bed __13__ . This was most unusual. Rarely __14__ to bed before she got home. No sooner had she put her foot on the first stair __15__ she heard a muffled voice call out, Who's there? Is that you, Helen?
  
  1.
  A) hardly
  B) easy
  C) hard
  D) easily
  2.
  A) slowly
  B) loudly
  C) careful
  D) noisy
  3.
  A) lightly
  B) noisily
  C) softly
  D) gently
  4.
  A) frequent
  B) oftener
  C) sooner
  D) frequently
  5.
  A) with angry
  B) angry
  C) angrily
  D) from anger
  6.
  A) shyly
  B) efficiently
  C) carefully
  D) fast
  7.
  A) softly
  B) gentle
  C) finely
  D) shortly
  8.
  A) aloud
  B) loud
  C) loudly
  D) allowed
  9.
  A) along
  B) long time
  C) long
  D) a long time
  10.
  A) probably
  B) certainly
  C) definitely
  D) may not
  11.
  A) rarely
  B) scarcely
  C) never
  D) occasionally
  12.
  A) fastly
  B) more faster
  C) more fast
  D) faster
  13.
  A) early
  B) more earlier
  C) the earliest
  D) more early
  14.
  A) they went
  B) they did go
  C) they have gone
  D) did they go
  15.
  A) then
  B) than
  C) that
  D) there