In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. We lit the candles, and (A) in our hands and knees. We went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up. Tom soon (B) under a wall where there was a hole. We went along a narrow passage and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped. Tom said, “Now, we’ll start this (C) of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.” Everybody was (D) . So, Tom got out a sheet of paper he had written the oath on and read it.