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ЕГЭ по английскому языку Задание №34 Лексико-грамматические навыки 34 (Выбор ответа (множественный)

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‘It’s Only Me’

After her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any housework that morning, because in the evening she would be going to a fancy dress (30)________ with her husband. She intended to dress up as a ghost and she had made her costume the night before. Now she was (31)________ to try it on. Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. Mrs Richards put it (32)________, looked in the mirror, smiled and went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it would be (33)________ to wear. Just as Mrs Richards was entering the dining-room, there was a (34)________ on the front door. She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to come straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table. Not wanting to (35)________ the poor man, Mrs Richards quickly hid in the small store-room under the stairs. She heard the front door open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the store-room was opened and a man entered. Mrs Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the meter. She tried to (36)________ the situation, saying ‘It’s only me’, but it was too late. The man let out a cry and jumped back several paces. When Mrs Richards walked towards him, he ran away, slamming the door behind him.

34. 1) knock 2) kick 3) hit 4) crash

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Tracy

Tracy was as excited as a child about her first trip abroad. Early in the morning, she stopped at a (30)________ agency and reserved a suite on the Signal Deck of the Queen Elizabeth II. The next three days she spent buying clothes and luggage. On the morning of the sailing, Tracy hired a limousine to drive her to the pier. When she (31)_________ at Pier 90, where the Queen Elizabeth II was docked, it was crowded with photographers and television reporters, and for a moment Tracy was panic stricken. Then she realized they were interviewing the two men posturing at the foot of the gangplank. The members of the crew were helping the passengers with their luggage. On deck, a steward looked at Tracy’s ticket and (32)_________ her to her stateroom. It was a lovely suite with a private terrace. It had been ridiculously expensive but Tracy (33)________ it was worth it. She unpacked and then wandered along the corridor. In almost every cabin there were farewell parties going on, with laughter and champagne and conversation. She felt a sudden ache of loneliness. There was no one to see her (34)_________, no one for her to care about, and no one who cared about her. She was sailing into a completely unknown future. Suddenly she felt the huge ship shudder as the tugs started to pull it out of the harbor, and she stood (35)_________ the passengers on the boat deck watching the Statue of Liberty slide out of (37)_________, and then she went exploring.

34. 1) in 2) off 3) of 4) after

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Looking for a job

My new home was a long way from the center of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so (30)__________ I spent a whole morning getting to town and applying to London Transport for a job on the tube. It turned out that they were looking for guards, not drivers. This (31)___________ me. I couldn’t drive a car but I could probably guard a train and perhaps continue to write poems between stations. The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other (32)_________, for the intelligence test. Then I was sent into another room for a psychological test. The examiner sat at a desk. You were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been (33)_________. Sometimes the person was rejected quickly and sometimes after quite a while. Obviously the longer interviews were the most successful ones. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now: ‘Why did you leave your last job? And the one before?’ I can’t (34)_________ my answers, except they were short at first and grew shorter as we continued. His closing statement showed a lack of sensitivity, which helped to explain why as a psychologist he had risen no higher than the underground railway. ‘You have failed this test and we are unable to (35)__________ you a position.’ Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such a job (36)__________ exactly the sort of elementary responsibility a dreamer like me is unlikely to have. But, I was still far short of self-understanding as well as short of cash.

34. 1) recall 2) memorize 3) forget 4) remind

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A quiet house

It was April and John Moore was studying for an important examination. As the date of the exam (30)________ nearer, he decided to find a quiet, little town and work there undisturbed. He (31)_________ his suitcase with clothes and books. In a railway timetable he found a town that he did not know, and bought a ticket to go there. He did not tell anyone where he was going. did not want to be (32)_________. That is how Moore arrived at Benchurch, a small market town. quite busy for a few hours. The rest of the time it was a very Once a week it was quiet place. Moore spent his first'night at the only hotel in the town. The landlady was very nice, but the hotel was noisy. The second day he started (33)__________ for a house to rent. There was only one place that he liked. It was deserted and very lonely. It was a big, old seventeenth-century house. It had barred windows like a prison, and a high brick wall all around it. It would be hard to imagine a more unwelcoming place. But it (34)_________ Moore perfectly. He went to find the local lawyer, who was responsible for the house. The lawyer was very happy to rent the house to him. ‘It’s been empty so long that people have started to (35)__________ a lot of foolish stories about it,’ he said. ‘You’ll be able to prove that the stories are wrong.’ Moore paid his rent, and Mr. Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look (36)__________ him. Не came away from the lawyer with the keys of the house in his pocket.

34. 1) fitted 2) suited 3) fixed 4) matched

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Vicky

Vicky Forth was an optimist, and she had been for all of her life; even when she was a child, her (30)__________ had been positive. Her glass was always half full, never half empty; tomorrow would be a much better day than today; the future was full of promise and success. She (31)__________ her best to look at the bright side of things. How right she had been to encourage her daughter to be optimistic, to set her sights on Oxford University. W omen were not yet admitted to membership of the University, but they could (32)___________ lectures, take courses, and sit for examinations. Grace Rose would be able to do all of these things, and would be well (33)___________ after by Vicky’s dear old friend Millicent, now widowed, who had a lovely new house in Oxford. It had been an inspired idea to write to her. Vicky was relieved and happy for her daughter, who was a wonderful student. She hoped to be a historian one day. Vicky always thought that (34)__________ up children was so exciting. She remembered that her husband was waiting for her downstairs. After (35)__________ on her dress and stepping into matching rose-colored shoes, Vicky went back to her dressing-table and selected a pair of diamond earrings and a matching brooch made of silver. She looked at herself in the large looking glass in one corner of the room. Vicky (36)__________ she liked her appearance.

34. 1) bringing 2) rearing 3) growing 4) raising

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The secret tunnel

In the middle of our village, there is a beautiful old church, which dates back to the beginning of the Middle Ages. It was rebuilt several times, but some of its parts, including the foundations, are (30)__________. Well, (31)__________ about restoration, a while ago they decided to install a heating system there, as it gets cold in winter. Some of the local boys volunteered to help, including myself. The benches were connected in stacks, so it was hard work to lift or to push them away, but we managed it. Most of the church floor was covered with marble-type slabs, but under some benches there were just some ancient-looking bricks. We got really (32)___________, as we had heard stories about an old underground passageway leading from a crypt below the church to the castle in the nearest city. It is twelve miles (33)___________. So, a friend of mine and I started to dig down there. It was relatively easy to pull out the top layer of bricks, and underneath them we found soil, which also moved easily as it was completely dry. We found that one side of the hole was so soft that you could just (34)___________ a stick through it. It was obviously that passageway! Then some workmen came in and told us to stop. Just fancy that! We had to stop at the most exciting moment. After a few days, the workmen put a layer of hard cement over the entire floor, so our find remained a mystery. But I won’t give (35)___________. I still hope to go there some day and find that secret tunnel. Maybe, that will become the greatest (36)__________ of the 21st century.

34. 1) shift 2) pull 3) push 4) remove

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Busy Day

Let me tell you about a day when Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He insisted that nobody should (30)__________ and that we should simply watch while he did everything himself. He picked up the picture that was waiting to be hung in the dining room. Suddenly it fell, and the glass (31)__________ into pieces, cutting his finger. Then he began to (32)__________ his handkerchief, but he could not find it because it was inside his coat, and nobody knew where the coat was. Six people started helping him. Eventually Uncle Podger discovered that he had been sitting on the coat all along and told everybody to stop their (33)__________. After that, the hammer disappeared. While everybody tried to find it, Uncle Podger stood on a chair complaining that they were going to (34)__________ him there all evening. The hammer was finally found, but then the nail disappeared. Uncle Podger certainly did not keep (35)__________ while another nail was being brought and loudly complained about everybody losing his things. When the picture was finally hanging on the wall, everyone except Uncle Podger looked completely (36)__________. He, however, was as energetic as ever.

34. 1) stay 2) keep 3) put 4) take

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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 (30)__________ that summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island. We worked together with a group of boys from 12 to 14 years old.

I’ve always been a bit untidy, but Dan was (31)__________ and clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers.

We could not have been more different, but we got on because we shared the same (32)__________ of humor.

At the end of the summer, a few of us went to (33)__________ a cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds. The park rangers had told us to stay there if anything happened.

They knew where we were going, and when we should have been back. Dan hurt his right foot badly. So we had to (34)__________ 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. To (35)__________ 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. I was not alone — the cave, the blue light and the flowing water released stories and memories that we had never revealed to anyone. It was as if a river of stories had started flowing in each of us.

When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want to (36)__________. “Can’t we just tell a few more stories?” In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

34. 1) lead 2) spend 3) hold 4) waste

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New York City: Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood

Life is made up of little things: some unimportant memories from childhood that, in fact, shaped your character. I (30)__________ on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the 1950s-60s, where family life was centred around old (31)__________ of flats and small stores. Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had character. It was (32)__________ with working families of Italian, German and Irish origin. We shopped together with all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced the way our family lived. I absorbed the street life. It gave me an (33)__________ that I could not have received in any other place. To me, it was home. In a recent walk around Third Avenue my eyes (34)__________ signs of the old neighbourhood but couldn’t find any. If I hadn’t been born here and someone described the area, it would be (35)__________ to believe. It wasn’t because a few buildings had changed — everything had changed. The transformation began in the late 1950s and 60s when corporations replaced the old neighbourhood. In the early 1960s, the houses were pulled down. Families were forced to (36)__________, the small stores went out of business and the old neighbourhood was changed forever. And now there is a lack of character in the transformed neighbourhood.

34. 1) looked after 2) looked for 3) looked through 4) looked at

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To Hear a Child

I believe in patience. I live as a volunteer residential counselor in a small group home. These boys have brought joy and happiness into my life; they have made me laugh and made me proud. However, they have also challenged me, made me angry and tested my patience. Each day we start anew, going about a (30)__________ routine. I drive them to school, pick them up, cook for them and help with homework. We spend the evenings (31)__________ about what happened during the day. I meet their teachers and study for tests with them. They are the last people I see each night and the first ones I hear in the morning. They have become a (32)__________ of my life. I am twenty-two and am beginning to understand the love of a parent. I could not have come this far without patience. They do not think like miniature adults and it is not fair to expect them to. (33)__________ my expectations of them are high, I must remember that so much of what they see and understand is for the first time. First loves, first failed test, first time feeling the need to break away from the nest. I must have patience with them, because there is still a child within that comes out when I least expect it. This world is a fast-paced, fast food, fast-internet place. (34)__________, no matter how fast things move, children will be children. I believe they will mature quicker and with more tools if I am patient. I see it in their eyes. Over time, sad eyes can glisten again, but only if I am (35)__________ of the fact that it takes them longer to get somewhere. I see around them a world that expects too much of them. They come (36)__________ too many things that give them too much sadness. They listen to me, respect me and understand reason but not always when I want them to. This opportunity has given me wisdom but only when I was patient enough to hear a child.

34. 1) Nevertheless 2) Nevermore 3) Although 4) Therefore

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Во

It was raining. The rain started early in the morning and it seemed, that it would never stop. Looking out of the window, Bo was thinking about his telephone conversation. Raindrops spattered the windshield as the taxi sliced through (30)__________ traffic on Park Avenue. There were too many cars as usual. When it had skidded to a halt at the curb, Bo gave a ten-dollar bill to the driver. That included a very generous tip. He (31)__________ his point of destination and was ready to take on Frank Ramsey. He had called Ramsey that morning from the Yale club and demanded the meeting. Ramsey had tried to avoid it but Bo insisted and Ramsey gave (32)__________. At the building’s revolving doors, Bo glanced back over his shoulder through the rain and noticed a woman standing on the sidewalk a short distance away. In the dim light he could not get a clear picture. She (33)__________ so much like Tiffany. She was wearing a yellow top and had long blond hair. Standing absolutely (34)__________ beneath her umbrella while everything around her moved, she seemed to be gazing straight at him. His heart (35)__________, the way it always did when he saw her. He couldn’t help it. Bo strained to (36)__________ sight of her as he was jostled into the doorway. When he cleared the doors, the woman had already disappeared.

34. 1) inert 2) static 3) quiet 4) still

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Pierre and Faniry

At the age of twenty-one, Pierre, a young winegrower, was sent by his father to spend some time with his uncle in Madagascar. He (30)__________ at the island and within two weeks fell in love with a local girl called Faniry.

At seventeen she was extremely beautiful, and for both of them it was genuine love at first (31)__________. Five months later they were married.

Faniry had no family, but Pierre’s parents came from France for the wedding, even though they did not strictly (32)__________ of it. The young couple then lived happily in Madagascar for three years.

One day Pierre received terrible news: his parents and only brother had died in a car crash. He took the next flight home to (33)__________ the funeral and manage the family vineyard.

Although grief-stricken, Pierre (34)__________ down to running the vineyard with Faniry. He hoped that life in Bordeaux would eventually become easier.

Pierre believed he had married an angel, but soon found (35)__________ that he was wrong.

He had (36)__________ a fatal mistake in marrying Faniry.

34. 1) stayed 2) lodged 3) dwelled 4) settled

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Cathy

Cathy spent many lunch breaks looking through dress shops before choosing an outfit for the Trumpers’ housewarming party. Her final (30)__________ was a sunflower-yellow dress that the assistant considered suitable for a cocktail party. At the last moment Cathy worried that the dress might be too short for such a grand (31)__________. Simon reassured her that she would look wonderful, and this made her more confident. (32)__________, she forgot her doubts as soon as the butler invited them inside. While the other guests drank champagne and took canapés, Cathy (33)__________ her attention to the paintings. She saw works by Courbet and Picasso and (34)__________ looking at them, but a Sisley painting impressed her most. A young man behind her said it was his favourite. “Quite beautiful,” Cathy (35)__________, explaining that she had once tried painting herself. The young man jokingly called her an expert. Cathy smiled (36)__________ her new companion, and they went to look at more paintings upstairs.

34. 1) pleased 2) enjoyed 3) amused 4) entertained

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William and Philippa

William and Philippa were students. Some people, it is said, fall in love at first (30)__________, but that was not what happened to them. They hated each other from the moment they met. This mutual hatred began at the first tutorial of their freshman term. Both had (31)__________ with major scholarships to read English language and literature. Each had been reliably assured by their schoolteachers that they would be the star pupil of their year. (32)__________ students had such prospects. Their tutor, Simon Jakes of New College, was amused by the competition that so quickly developed between his two brightest pupils. He skillfully used their hatred to bring out the best in both of them. He never (33)__________ it. By the end of their first year, they were far ahead of other students. In their second year, they became even more hostile. When they were both awarded A-plus for their essays on Shakespeare, it didn’t help. Simon Jakes told his colleagues that he had never had a brighter pair up in the same year. They taught each other most of the time and he (34)__________ acted as a referee. It (35)__________ as no surprise to anyone that, as the examiners felt unable on this occasion to award the prize to just one person, they (36)__________ decided that it should be shared by William and Philippa.

34. 1) rarely 2) merely 3) nearly 4) hardly

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Alexander

Sir Alexander Heathcote was an extremely exact man. (30)__________ people were like him. He was precisely six feet three-and-a-quarter inches tall and followed the same carefully timed morning routine every day.

He left his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and would (31)__________ at the Foreign Office at precisely 8:59, returning home again exactly at six.

Sir Alexander had been exact from an early age. As the only son of a general, discipline came naturally to him. Unlike his father, however, he chose a diplomatic career and (32)__________ in progressing from a shared desk at the Foreign Office to posts in Calcutta and Peking.

He was delighted when Mr Gladstone (33)__________ him the opportunity to represent the government in China.

For some time Sir Alexander had been (34)__________ in the art of the Ming dynasty.

The new appointment gave him the ideal opportunity of (35)__________ in their natural surroundings some of the magnificent statues, paintings and drawings that he had previously seen only in books.

When he arrived in Beijing, Her Imperial Highness wished him success in his new position, and then the audience (36)__________ to an end.

34. 1) involved 2) interested 3) fond 4) keen

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Philip and Michael

Philip Masters was a millionaire now. (30)__________, everyone in the club was aware that he had built up his own business from scratch after he had left his first job as a kitchen salesman.

“Ready-Fit Kitchens” had started in a shed at the end of Philip’s garden. Later, he (31)__________ in building a factory on the other side of town that employed more than three hundred people.

Ten years later, the financial press speculated that Philip’s business was worth a couple of million. When five more years later the company was taken over by the John Lewis Partnership, Philip got seventeen million pounds. (32)__________ businessmen were as lucky as he was.

Philip was married for more than twenty years. He had fallen in love with Sally at first (33)__________. Now Sally was chairman of the regional branch of the Save the Children Fund. Their son had just won a place at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Michael was the boy’s godfather.

Michael Gilmour could (34)__________ be a greater contrast.

On leaving school, where Philip had been his closest friend, he (35)__________ to find a permanent job. He started out as a trainee with Watneys, but lasted only a few months.

Then he started to work as a reporter with a publishing company. He drifted from job to job. (36)__________ Philip, he married his childhood sweetheart, Carol West, the daughter of a local doctor. They had a daughter. Michael seemed to have settled down at last.

34. 1) simply 2) nearly 3) hardly 4) merely

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My Company

In 1978 I was chairman of Cooper’s, a transport company operating more than a hundred vehicles of different types. We (30)__________ in transporting goods by road.

My father had started the business in 1931 with only three vehicles. By 1967, when it became Cooper & Son, the company had (31)__________ in obtaining seventeen large trucks and was delivering goods throughout northern England.

My father wanted me to leave school as soon as I passed my exams. He (32)__________ to say that one month in the real world would teach me more than years at university.

I followed his advice and never (33)__________ it. Shortly after my sixteenth birthday, I began working for the company.

For my first three years I worked under the supervision of the workshop manager. He taught me how to take trucks (34)__________ and, even more importantly, how to put them back together.

Later I worked in different departments. When my father retired in 1977, I became chairman and began introducing ideas I had developed over the previous decade, (35)__________ I knew that my father did not approve of them.

I never (36)__________ him, but expanding into Europe was only the first stage of my plans.

34. 1) away 2) apart 3) along 4) among

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Daniel and Diana

Daniel and Diana were good friends. They had majored in economics at Bristol University in the early 1980s. Then Daniel met Rachel, who had arrived a year after them, and fell in love with her at first (30)__________.

In Rachel he found everything he was looking (31)__________ in a wife. They married the day he graduated, and after they returned from their honeymoon, David took over the management of his father’s farm in Bedfordshire.

Three children followed in quick succession, and Diana was proud when she was asked to be godmother to Sophie, the eldest. Daniel and Rachel had been married for twelve years; they (32)__________ ever quarrelled.

(33)__________ married couples were so happy.

(34)__________ Diane was regularly asked to spend the weekend with them in the country, she only accepted one invitation out of three. She would have liked to join them more often, but since her divorce she had no desire to take advantage of their hospitality.

Diane felt tired. She (35)__________ her work, but it had been an awful week.

Two contracts had fallen through, her son had been dropped from the school soccer team, and her daughter had never stopped (36)__________ her that her father didn’t mind her watching television when she ought to be doing her homework. “I will survive.” Diana smiled and thought about Daniel’s birthday. She had forgotten to get him a present.

34. 1) Therefore 2) Although 3) Nevertheless 4) However

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The prize

William and Philippa were rivals. They were considered the best students at New College. At the beginning of the third year they applied for the Charles Oldham Shakespeare prize for an essay. The chosen theme for the prize essay that year was “Satire in Shakespeare”. Troilus and Cressida clearly called for the most attention, but both students (30)__________ to find satirical nuances in almost every play by Shakespeare.

As the year was coming to an end, (31)__________ anyone doubted that either William or Philippa would win the prize while the other would come in second.

(32)__________, no one was willing to express an opinion as to who the victor would be.

Before the prize essay submission date, they both had to take their final degree examinations. (33)__________ students studied as hard as William and Philippa. It came as no surprise to anyone that they both achieved first-class degrees in the final honors school. Rumor spread around the university that the two rivals had been awarded As in every one of their nine papers.

“I would be willing to believe that is the case,” Philippa (34)__________ William. “But I feel I must point out to you that there is a considerable difference between an A-plus and an A-minus.”

“I couldn’t agree with you more,” said William. “But (35)__________, when you discover who has won the Charles Oldham, you will know who was awarded less.”

It turned (36)__________ that the examiners felt unable on this occasion to award the prize to one person and had therefore decided that it should be shared by William and Philippa.

34. 1) spoke 2) told 3) said 4) talked

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Consuela

Victor Rosenheim, an American banker, was Consuela’s third husband. At first (30)__________ they looked happy. The gossip columns, however, were suggesting that the former Colombian model was already searching for the next husband. The Rosenheims flew into London from their home in New York. The purpose of their trip was twofold.

There was always the chance that Mr. Rosenheim would take over a small merchant bank, while Mrs. Rosenheim intended to occupy her time looking (31)__________ a suitable birthday present – for herself.

(32)__________ people have been able to discover exactly which birthday Consuela would officially be celebrating.

After a sleepless night, Victor Rosenheim (33)__________ to get up early for an important meeting in the City, while Consuela remained in bed toying with her breakfast.

After breakfast Consuela (34)__________ a couple of phone calls and then she disappeared into the bathroom. Fifty minutes later she emerged from her suite dressed in a pink Chanel suit. She stepped out of the hotel and into the morning sun to begin her search for the birthday present.

She spent some time in Asprey’s considering the latest slimline watches, a gold statue of a tiger with jade eyes and a Faberge egg. She (35)__________ that her close friend, Tina, was not with her, she needed her advice badly.

From there she walked to a (36)__________ shop, which despite a determined salesman who showed her almost everything the shop had to offer, she still left empty-handed.

34. 1) took 2) made 3) did 4) held

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Diana

Diana had been hoping to get away by 5:00, so she could be at the farm in time for dinner. She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskings, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that (30)__________ the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client.

Haskins didn’t hesitate to (31)__________ her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.

To (32)__________ the truth, it was always the same on a Friday. The phones would go quiet in the middle of the afternoon and then, just as she thought she could leave, a new document would land on her desk. Diana looked at the document and knew there would be no chance of escaping before 6:00.

Diana adored her children. At first (33)__________ she looked happy.

The demands of being a single parent as well as a director of a small but thriving City company meant there were (34)__________ moments left in any day to relax. When it came to the one weekend in four that James and Caroline spent with her ex-husband, Diana would try to leave the office a little earlier than usual to avoid the weekend traffic.

She read through the first page slowly, aware that any mistake (35)__________ hastily on a Friday evening could be (36)__________ in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as she signed the final page of the document. It was just showing 5:51.

34. 1) little 2) few 3) many 4) much

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At the office

The following morning I visited our local newsagent Mr. Bales. He always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the neighbourhood and was only too happy to (30)__________ his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day.

Then I (31)__________ at the office of John D. Wood in Mount Street. I had to wait for some time, but eventually one of four assistants came over, introduced himself to me as Mr. Palmer and asked how he could help.

After a closer inspection of the young man, I doubted that he could help anyone. He must have been about seventeen and was so pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him (32)__________.

“I’d like to know some details concerning Number 147 Chelsea Terrace,” I said. “Would madam please excuse me?” he (33)__________ and walked over to a filing cabinet.

He (34)__________ no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair. He placed the single sheet on the countertop and studied it closely.

“A greengrocer’s shop,” he said. “Yes. What price is the owner asking for the property?” I asked. I was becoming more and more annoyed by being so obviously ignored. “One hundred and fifty guineas is being asked for the shop,” (35)__________ the assistant, his eyes fixed on the bottom line of the schedule.

The shop turned out to be ridiculously expensive. I made my (36)__________ back to Chelsea, only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the neighbourhood.

34. 1) made 2) did 3) took 4) held

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Childhood memories

I was told my father was killed in the war. Whenever I questioned my mother about his death, she didn’t (30)__________ any more than that he had been killed fighting on the Western Front only days before the peace treaty with Germany was signed.

Grandma said my dad had been a brave man, and once when we were (31)__________ in the house she showed me his medals.

My grandpa rarely (32)__________ an opinion on anything, but then he was hard of hearing so he might not have heard the question in the first place.

The only man I can (33)__________ was my uncle Stan who used to sit at the top of the table at breakfast time.

When he left in the morning, I (34)__________ to follow him to the city docks where he worked. Every day I spent at the dockyard was an adventure.

Once the holds had been emptied, the dockers would load them with salt, tin, (35)__________ coal (my least favourite because it was an obvious clue to what I’ve been doing all day and annoyed my mother), before they set off again.

I always wanted to help my uncle Stan unload (36)__________ ship had docked that morning but he just laughed, saying “All in good time, my lad.”

34. 1) kept 2) used 3) held 4) made

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After the war

When the war ended I returned to Trinity College and was granted an extra year to complete my degree. (30)__________ my father and mother considered my grant at Trinity the highlight of the year, I thought Dad’s receiving an award from the Queen was more important.

The ceremony turned (31)__________ to be a double delight, because I was able to witness my old tutor, Professor Bradford, receive his award for the role he had played in the field of breaking German military codes (32)__________ the war.

We all met up afterwards for tea at the Ritz, and not unnaturally at some (33)__________ during the afternoon the conversation switched to what career I proposed to follow now the war was over.

To my father’s credit he had never once (34)__________ that I should join him at the family company, especially as I knew how much he had longed for another son who might eventually (35)__________ his place.

In fact, during the summer vacation I became even more conscious of my good fortune, as Father seemed to be preoccupied with the business and Mother was unable to hide her own anxiety about the future of the company. But whenever I asked if I could help all she would (36)__________ was, “Don’t worry, it will all work out in the end.”

34. 1) offered 2) suggested 3) proposed 4) presented

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My family

I don’t believe anyone could describe me as a snob. However, I do believe that the saying “There’s a place for everything, and everything has its place” (30)__________ equally well to human beings.

I was born in Yorkshire in Victorian times and I can safely (31)__________ that during this period my family played a considerable role.

My father, Sir Raymond Hardcastle, was not only an inventor and industrialist of great imagination and skill, but he also built up one of the nation’s most successful companies. At the same time he always (32)__________ his workers as if they were all part of the family.

Indeed it was this example that he (33)__________, whenever he dealt with those less fortunate than himself that has been the benchmark by which I have attempted to conduct my own life.

I have no brothers and just one elder sister, Amy. (34)__________ there were only a couple of years between us, I cannot pretend that we were even particularly close, perhaps because I was an outgoing child, while she was shy and reserved.

Her only interests in life were gardening, crochet work and the occasional visit to Scarborough festival. She never (35)__________ an attempt to get out of the family circle.

Gerald and I first met when I had been a houseguest at Lord Fanshaw’s country home in Norfolk. As it turned (36)__________, we had much in common.

34. 1) however 2) although 3) therefore 4) nevertheless