Have You Filled upthe Form?

Of all things in theworld,I most dislike filling up forms;in fact,I have a________(51)horror of it.Applying for a driving license,________(52)for an evening course,booking

a holiday abroad一everything nowadays seem toinvolve________(53)information about one's personal life and habits that haslittle or nothing to do with the matter________

(54)hand.Whenapplying for a job,it may be________(55)some obscure interest toa________(56)employer to learn that I collect stamp or had measles as achild,but why

should heconceivably want to know that my father was a tobacconist who died in 1988?

The authoritieswho________(57)one to fill up forms,frequently demand answers to questions thatone would hesitate to put________(58)one's intimate friends.The worst of

it is that,when________(59)with such questions,my mind goes blank.Have I ever sufferedfrom a serious illness?My mother always assured me I was"delicate".DoI suffer

from any personaldefects? Well,I wear contact lenses and my upper teeth are not my own,butperhaps the word"defects"________(60)to my character. Am I supposed

to________(61)that Ilike gambling,and find it difficult to get up in the morning?Both of them aretrue.

Of all,I think jobapplications are the worst,education,previous experience,post held,give

________(62)…Terrifiedby the awful warning about giving false________(63)which appear at

the bottom of theform,I struggle to remember what exams I passed and how long I worked for whatfirms.________(64)hard I try,there always seems to be a year or two for

which I cannotsatisfactorily account and which I am certain,if left________(65),will give theimpression that I was in prison or engaged in some occupation too dubious to

mention._________(52)

A.attending

B.registering

C.living

D.working