Лексико-грамматические навыки 30 (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.
Пример ответа: 1
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.