Задание №51573 ЕГЭ Английскому языку

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30—36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30—36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

 

30.

1) posing

2) playing

3) pretending

4) acting

 

Dr Tomas Strayer looked around the control room at his team of scientists and engineers. He was 30_________ to be calm, but he was both excited and terrified.  

'Ready,' he said, and pressed the first button, bringing to life the complicated computers and machines around them.

'Set,' he said, and pressed the second button, 31_________ on the huge particle accelerator that lay in a huge underground laboratory, deep beneath the towns and fields of Switzerland. 

'Go,' he said, at exactly twelve o'clock, and pressed the final button.

For a second, everything went absolutely black, as if he had gone blind. Tomas cried out in shock, but the lights were already on again. Whatever that was, it was not 32_________ to have happened.

'Everybody check the systems!' he ordered, but nothing 33_________ to be wrong with them. The particle accelerator was working, just as he had hoped it would.  

'Look outside,' said Tomas's assistant in a frightened voice. Instead of the perfect summer day of five minutes ago, the sky was darker than the blackest night. Not only had the sun disappeared, there weren't even any stars.

Tomas 34_________ people shouting and screaming, calling their families on the telephone, afraid they had all suddenly disappeared too. Several people got in their cars and turned on the headlights. When the automatic street lights went on, some people cheered, but most of them were still frightened.

Then, almost twenty minutes after Tomas had started his experiment, without warning the sun reappeared in the sky, warm and yellow, and the black sky 35_________ blue again. Everyone started laughing and dancing around, and Tomas breathed a sigh of 36_________ .