Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word

VIII. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.

Mr. Leonard was twenty-three (1)___ old and not very rich. He was not married and he (2)___ in a small house in a city. Every summer, Mr. Leonard went down to the sea for a holiday. He stayed (3)____small, cheap hotels, but he always wanted to have a clean, tidy room. He hated dirty places.

One summer, a friend of his said, ‘Go to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. I went (4)_____last year, and it (5)_____ very nice and clean’.

So Mr. Leonard went there. But there was a different manager that year. The new manager took Mr. Leonard (6)______his room. The room looked quite nice (7)______clean, but Mr. Leonard said to the manager, ‘Are the sheets on the bed clean?’

‘Yes, of course they are!’ he (8)___ angrily. ‘We washed them this morning. Feel them. They’re still damp.’