I. Fill in the blanks using active vocabulary

Part I

1. Cecily Cardew lives at my place in the country under the … of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.

2. Cecily did not like German. Yet her guardian was very anxious that she should … herself … every way.

3. Miss Prism knew no one (other than Mr. Worthing) who had a higher … of duty and responsibility.

4. Cecily wished Uncle Jack would allow his brother to come down to the country sometimes. Miss Prism and Cecily might have a good … … him.

5. Cecily did not like novels that ended …. They depressed her.

6. Algernon: You must not think that I am wicked.

Cecily: Then you have been … us all in a very inexcusable manner.

7. Cecily hopes that Algernon hasn’t been … a double life. She says that pretending to be wicked and being good all the time would be ….

8. Jack is dressed … the deepest …, with a crêpe hatband and black gloves.

Chasuble: Your brother Ernest dead? I … my sincere condolence.

9. As a man …, so let him … (a proverb).

10. What seem to us bitter trials are often …(pl) in disguise.

11. Chasuble: But surely, Mr. Worthing, you have been … already? Have you any grave … … the subject?

12. Jack: I made arrangements with Dr. Chasuble to be … at 5.30, and I naturally will take the name of Ernest.

Part II

1. Brother John, I have come down to tell you that I am very sorry for all the trouble I have … you and that I intend to … a better life in the future.

2. Algernon: I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why don’t you go up and …?

3. Algernon: If I am occasionally overdressed, I … … … it by being always overeducated.

4. Algernon: I think it(Bunburying) has been … great …. I am in love … Cecily, and that is everything.

5. Ever since Jack confessed that he had a younger brother he (Ernest) had formed the chief … of conversation. Cecily believed that a man who was much … about was always very attractive. That was why she … in love … him.

6. It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn’t been … off at least once.

7. Cecily pitied any woman whose husband was not called Ernest. Algernon really couldn’t see why Cecily should … … the name of Algernon. It was rather an aristocratic name.

8. Cecily: It is not Mr. Worthing who is my guardian. It is his brother.

Gwendolen: Ah! You have lifted a … from my mind.

9. Cecily: To save my poor boy from the machinations of any other girl there are no … to which I would not go.

10. Gwendolen: Is your name really Jack? – Jack: I could … it if I liked. But my name is certainly Jack.