Read the text and decide which answer best fits each gap. "I'm back!' Cathy kicked off her muddy running shoes. The cliff-top cottage in 1) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 the Pine Street was…
Read the text and decide which answer best fits each gap. "I'm back!' Cathy kicked off her muddy running shoes. The cliff-top cottage in 1) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 the Pine Street was thick with the smell of something warm and savoury, and her stomach, 2) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 of breakfast, pleaded loudly. Her granddad 3) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 in the kitchen at the round wooden dining table, but he wasn't alone. A small energetic-looking woman with short grey hair and spectacles sat 4) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 him. "This is Louise Clark, Cathy dear, from 5) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 hospital, here to collect toys for her young patients." 6) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 Cathy smiled hello, he added "She kindly 7) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 has brought/had brought/brought/ has been brought a stew for supper. So, help yourself, love." "It was the 8) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 I could do," said Louise half standing to shake Cathy's hand. She 9) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 faded jeans and a vibrant green T-shirt. Cathy helped herself 10) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 the stew. "Go on then Cathy, love – tell us where 11) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 . You look as if you 12) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 down an old copper mine." "The woods," Cathy replied. She explained briefly how their dog 13) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 missing and she had to leave the path to find him. "I found him eventually by the lake in the middle of the most incredible overgrown garden. You 14) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 it. And there was a house, too. Abandoned." "The Edevane place,” Louise said quietly. "Loeanneth." The name when spoken had that magical, whispering quality of so many Cornish words and Cathy couldn't help 15) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 the odd feeling the blowing wind had given her, as if the house itself was alive. "Loeanneath," she repeated. "I wish I 16) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 Cornish." "It means "Lake House". "What happened there?" "A terrible business," Louise said. "Back in the thirties. My mother used 17) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 about it, when she wanted to stop us, kids from wandering too far. A child went missing 18) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 the night of a grand party. It was a big story at the time. And the family just left. Locked the doors and went back to London. Over time, people forgot that it was there. It has become our very own Sleeping Beauty House. Deep in the woods, like that, it's not the sort you go near 19) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 you've got good reason. They say it was a lovely place. A sort of paradise." Granddad sighed with deep satisfaction. "Yes," he said. "Yes, that's just the sort of thing I was led to believe I 20) Ответ {$а} Вопрос 2 in Cornwall."
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Готовые ответы к пропускам:
in
- Полное предложение будет звучать: "The cliff-top cottage in the Pine Street was thick with the smell of something warm and savoury..."
- Предлог "in" указывает на местоположение.
at the thought
- Завершив предложение: "and her stomach, at the thought of breakfast, pleaded loudly."
- Здесь употребляется "at the thought" (при мысли).
was sitting
- "Her granddad was sitting in the kitchen..."
- Прошедшая форма "was sitting" указывает на то, что действие происходило в прошлом.
with
- "...a small energetic-looking woman with short grey hair..."
- "with" используется для обозначения характеристик человека.
the
- "...from the hospital..." — здесь нужен определённый артикль "the".
And
- "And Cathy smiled hello..." — "и" вводит новую мысль.
has brought
- "...she kindly has brought a stew for supper."
- Здесь используем Present Perfect, чтобы показать связывание действия с настоящим.
least
- “It was the least I could do...” — распространённая фраза.
wore
- "...she wore faded jeans and a vibrant green T-shirt."
- Прошедшая форма "wore" подходит по контексту.
to
- "Cathy helped herself to the stew."
- Правильное употребление предлога "to".
- you’ve been
- "...tell us where you’ve been." — здесь правильная форма Present Perfect.
- had been
- "You look as if you had been down an old copper mine." — прошедшая форма.
- went missing
- "...how their dog went missing..."
- Употребляется в прошедшем времени.
- should see
- "...You should see it." — предложение в форме совета.
- remember
- "...she couldn't help remember the odd feeling..."
- Здесь используется инфинитив.
- could speak
- "...I wish I could speak Cornish."
- Вариант "could" подходит для выражения желания в прошлом.
- to tell
- "...my mother used to tell about it..." — форма "used to" указывает на привычные действия в прошлом.
- on
- "...went missing on the night of a grand party." — предлог времени.
- unless
- "...not the sort you go near unless you've got good reason." — условное предложение.
- could find
- "...believe I could find in Cornwall." — выражение потенциального действия.
Заключение
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