Задание №85588 ЕГЭ Английскому языку

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A new life 

Bateman took a glance at his friend. Edward was dressed in a suit of shabby white ducks, none too clean, and a large straw native hat. They arrived 30 ___________ the main Tahiti hotel and sat on the terrace. Edward was most anxious to hear all the news of Chicago and bombarded his friend with eager questions. His interest was natural and sincere. 31 _______________, he didn’t want to come back.

He was very happy here. Wouldn’t it be stupid to make a 32 _____________? When he saw Bateman that morning, he seemed to see himself two years ago. The same blue suit, the same energy. The same determination. Two years ago he had gone about and everywhere he had seen possibilities for development and enterprise. There were fortunes to be made here. In twenty years, 33 _____________ of this lazy little town he saw a great American city with ten-storey buildings and street-cars. It came 34 ______________  him little by little. 35 ____________ he came to like the life here, with its ease and its leisure, and the people, with their good nature and their happy smiling faces. He began to think. He began to read. In Chicago he had read in order to be able to hold his own in conversation. Here he learned to read for pleasure. He learned to talk. Conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life but it wants leisure. He'd always been too busy before. Now he didn’t see the use of all this hustle and constant striving. When he thought of Chicago now he saw a dark, grey city, all stone — like a prison. When he thought of the life he had 36 _____________ there he was filled with horror. He had found his soul here. 

1) Mainly 
2) Gradually

3) Surely
4) Similarly