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Complete the text below using the correct word or expression from the frame on the right

At six thirteen a.m. on Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day and as always, she was at once (1)_____ awake and began immediately to deal with the problems conjured up by her incredibly active mind. (2)_____ urgently the need of consultation and conversation, and selecting for the purpose her young cousin, Midge Hardcastle, (3)_____ arrived at The Hollow the night before, Lady Angkatell slipped quickly out of bed and went along the passage to Midge's room. Since she was a woman of rapid thought processes, Lady Angkatell, (4)_____ was her invariable custom, commenced the conversation in her own (5)_____, supplying Midge's answers out of her own fertile imagination.
The conversation was in full (6)_____ when Lady Angkatell flung open Midge's door.
"- And so, darling, you really must agree that the weekend is going to present difficulties!"
"Eh? Hwah!" Midge grunted inarticulately, (7)_____ thus abruptly from a satisfying and deep sleep.
Lady Angkatell crossed to the window, opening the shutters and jerking up the blind with a brisk movement, letting in the pale light of a September dawn.
"Birds!" she observed, peering with kindly pleasure (8)_____ the pane. "So sweet."
"What?"
"Well, at any (9)_____, the weather isn't going to present difficulties. It looks (10)_____ it had set in fine. That's something. Because if a lot of discordant personalities are boxed up indoors, I'm sure you will agree with me that it makes it ten times worse."
(Agatha Christie)

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