1. What her mother and father .......... to most was the endless tittle tattle (gossip) in the village about a young woman working for this hot shot (well known entrepreneur),

2. who was also .......... by some as a bit of a wheeler dealer (someone who does business in an underhand way).

3. Cathy didn't believe any of this and was delighted to be working for Geoffrey Winton if for no other .......... than that living at home was very humdrum (boring).

4. The rest of the organisation thought that she and Winton were a dream team (ideal partners) because she was enthusiastic and he was very .......... .

5. After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone .......... to work in America as a result of the brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).

6. One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune .......... when Cathy came rushing into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),

7. and announced what she thought was a cheerful earful (a good piece of news) and that was she had been invited to attend a .......... in the capital.

8. As far as her father was concerned this was .......... double trouble (two problems) — first working for Fortune and now getting involved in a demonstration.

9. As far as he was concerned this would be a .......... of time because the speakers at the rally would just talk mumbo jumbo (nonsense).

10. But Cathy had made up her .......... and the next morning wham bam (very quickly) she caught the early train and went off to the rally.