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English lesson 24/07

Lomonosov School

Multiple Choice

Let me tell you what happened once when my dear Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He told us not to 32 ______ and just watch him do it. He said he would do it by himself.

•  scare

•  disturb

•  worry

•  fear

Multiple Choice

But suddenly it fell down and the glass 33 ______ into pieces and he cut his finger.

•  failed

•  broke

•  ruined

•  fell

Multiple Choice

He started to 34 ______ his handkerchief but couldn’t find it because he had put it in his coat and none of us knew where his coat was.

•  look at

• look to

• look after

• look for

Multiple Choice

‘Six of you!’ Uncle Podger exclaimed, ‘and you cannot find the coat that I put down only five minutes ago!’ But then he got up from his chair and found that he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. ‘Oh, you can stop your 35 ______ . I’ve found it myself!’

•  search

•  investigation

•  exploration

•  study

Multiple Choice

Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered where the hammer had disappeared to. And while everybody was trying to get the hammer he was standing on the chair saying: ‘Well, I want to know if you are going to 36 ______ me here all evening!’

•  stay

•  keep

•  put

•  take

Multiple Choice

Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn’t keep 37 ______ while he was waiting for another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about our habit of losing all the things he needed.

•  dumb

•  cool

•  still

•  silent

Multiple Choice

When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, everybody looked very 38 ______ , all except Uncle Podg er, who was lively as ever. Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do a job like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it was over.

•  dull

•  tired

•  angry

•  boring

Multiple Choice

A Storyteller

In my early 20s, after a year and a half in England, and four months in France, I returned to the United States and got a job at a camp in northern Virginia. My 32 ______ that summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island.

•  friend

•  teammate

•  partner

•  opponent

Multiple Choice

I've always been a bit untidy, but Dan was 33 ______ and clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers.

•  clear

•  neat

•  exact

•  careful

Multiple Choice

We could not have been more different, but we got on because we shared the same 34 ______ of humor.

•  feeling

•  emotion

•  reason

•  sense

Multiple Choice

At the end of the summer, a few of us went to 35 ______ a cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds.

•  explore

•  analyze

•  teach

•  learn

Multiple Choice

Dan hurt his right foot badly. So we had to 36 ______ the night in the cave. Food and water were not a problem, but we turned off our lights to save power. In the distance, we could hear the sound of running water.

 

•  lead

•  spend

•  hold

•  waste

Multiple Choice

To 37 ______ the time, we told stories. That night in the cave we moved from one family story to another. As the night wore on, I remembered more and more.

 

•  keep

•  waste

•  spare

•  pass

Multiple Choice

When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want to 38 ______ . ‘Can’t we just tell a few more stories?’ In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

 

•  escape

•  leave

•  retreat

•  retire