Грамматические навыки формообразование 20 (Заполнение пропуска)
Прочитайте приведённые ниже тексты. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 19–24, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текстов. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 19–24.
Пример ответа: did not know
In thick fog
It was a foggy night. In a very thick fog, a ship (19) __________ (SAIL) very slowly. Suddenly lights appeared forward on a collision course. The Captain shouted through the mouthpiece: “Get out of my way! I am the carrier ‘Manchester’! My displacement is 30,000 tons!”
A voice (20) __________ (COME) through the fog in reply:
“You (21) __________ (WELL) turn away yourself. I’m the light house!”
The purpose of education
A famous professor greeted the first year undergraduates at the beginning of the academic year. He (22) __________ (TELL) them in his opening remarks:
“Nothing you learn here at the university will be of slightest use to you (23) __________ (LATE), but one thing.
If you work hard, if you train your brain, you should be able to understand when a man (24) __________ (TALK) nonsense. And that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.”