Грамматические навыки: формообразование 24 (Заполнение пропуска)
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 20–28, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию 20–28.
Пример ответа: was built
I remember my uncle Thomas very well. My mum says I can’t because I was a little girl, only three at the time. But my memories of him are still very vivid. Uncle Thomas was a sailor. When he returned from his last trip, he brought several large (20) ____________________(BOX) with him.
Inside there (21) ____________________(BE) bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. “What is it for?” I asked my uncle. He (22) ____________________(GIVE) me a broad smile and said: “Have your breakfast first and then come to the backyard. You (23) ____________________(SEE) everything with your own eyes.”
When I came to the backyard, Uncle Thomas (24) ____________________(READ) an instruction manual. It took all his attention because the manual (25) ____________________(WRITE) in Spanish, a language my uncle didn’t know very well. All in all, it took (26) ____________________(HE) a couple of weeks to assemble the object from the parts.
To all my questions he said that it was a machine that (27) ____________________(CAN) fly like a bird. I was probably the only one in the family who took his words seriously. They could never believe that soon we were going to see one of the (28) ____________________(ONE) airplane flights in the country.