Test 2
Directions: (Questions 1—13)
Read the story below and use the appropriate form of each verb in brackets in the numbered blanks. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Задание: (1—13)
Прочитайте рассказ и напишите соответствующую форму каждого глагола, данного в скобках, в отведенное для этого место.
В начале задания дан пример (0). (4) <...> She had no money, she knew no Dutch. People passed and seemed sorry for her, she tried to make them understand what (0 happen). They thought that she (1 loose) something, but could not understand what. They took her to the nearest village and found apoliceman. He concluded from her pantomime that some man (2 steal) her bicycle.Meanwhile, Harris continued his ride with much enjoyment. It seemed to him that he suddenly (3 become) a stronger, and in every way a more capable cyclist. He said to what he thought (4 be) Mrs. Harris not to be afraid, and he (5 show) her how fast he
(6 can) go. He stretched out his hand behind him and felt that there (7 be) nothing there but space. He jumped or rather fell off, and looked back up the road; nobody was there.
had happened
(2).
(3)
(7)
While he was thinking a man passed. Harris stopped him, and explained to him that he (8 loose) his wife. While they were talking, another farmer came along, to whom the first man explained the matter, not as an accident, but as a good story, at which they laughed. Soon he met two young women with one young man. He asked them if they (9 see) his wife. They asked him what she (10 look like). All he could tell them was that she (11 be) a very beautiful woman of medium size. They asked him how she (12 be dressed); but he could not remember. The young man suggested the police station in the next town.
The police gave him a paper, and told him to write down a full description of his wife, together with details of when and where he (13 loose). He did not know <...>
("A Little Accident While Cycling" After Jerome K. Jerome) THE INFINITIVE