Лексико-грамматические навыки 32 (Выбор ответа (множественный)
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.
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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.
32. 1) Little 2) Many 3) Much 4) Few