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01.03.2020 05:31 •  Английский язык

МНЕ С АНГЛИЙСКИМ Упражнение 78. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present Indefinite, Present Continuous; Past Indefinite, Past Continuous; Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous.
A. I … (live) in London for a long time but I still … (not, know) many of the streets in my district. The other day I … (go) out late at a time when the fog … (grow) thicker, and I soon … (lose) my way. After … (walk) for a while, I … (see) the friendly light of a pub, so I … (go) in and … (find) several friends who … also (give) up the attempt to discover where they were. We … (sit) down and … (chat) for a while and we … just (go) to leave when John … (come) in and announced that the fog … (become) so thick that all traffic … (stop) overa wide area. This sometimes … (happen) in London and it … (mean) great inconvenience to thousands of people. I … (remember) once meeting a friend of mine, who … (wear) a very tired expression. "What … (happen) to you?" I asked. "Last night I … (leave) the office late and started to motor home, about four miles only, I … (not, go) far when I realized I was lost, so I drew up and … (decide) to wait for the fog to lift. It … (not, do). I had to spend the whole night in my car so now I … (feel) very weary." I … (hear) of this sort of thing happening to other motorists. Persnnally, T never (so) out at night in foggy weather in my car, I … (prefer) to travel by tube then, as in the last few years we … (have) relatively few tube breakdowns in foggy weather, although the buses . of course (stop) in such weather.
B. We are very proud of our firm's record. We … (make) biscuits since before 1815 and … (gain) many awards for our goods. My great-great-grandfather (found) the firm. He first … (work) as a baker's apprentice and when he … (learn) the trade, he … (go) into business on his own, with the help of some money a kindly uncle … (lend) him. This uncle … also (give) him an old family recipe for making biscuits; this recipe … (inherit) from ancestors who … (leave) France at the time of the religious persecutions there. My greatgreat-grandfather soon … (find) that the biscuits sold very well, and when he … (repay) his debt to his uncle, and … (make) money to buy better premises, he … (give) up baking bread altogether and … (devote) all his energies to making biscuits. He … soon (make) even more money and the reputation of the biscuits (spread) far and wide. Since his days we … (perfect) our methods of making biscuits but we … (not be able) to find a better recipe than the original one. We … (produce) many different sorts of biscuits but none … (sell) 80 well as The Old Favourite, which still … (head) the list for all kinds of biscuits in this country. Since the war we … (built) up an efficient export sales organization, which … (introduce) our biscuits into several countries that formerly … never (import) any biscuits.
C. I … (not, see) Johnson for several months when yesterday he … (turn) up looking as if he … (spend) a holiday on a sunny South Sea island. He … (wear) a nylon shirt, a day tie, cream-coloured trousers and a Panama hat. "Where on earth … you (get) those clothes and what … you (do) since we last saw you?" I asked. "I … (earn) a lot of money," he answered. "Good," I said, "but that … (not, explain) the clothes. You … always (love) bright colours, I … (know), but … you (need) to dress up in such vivid ones?" "It is really unnecessary now but until yesterday it … (be) necessary," he said. "You see, I … (get) a job with a film company and they … (make) a film about tropical life when I … (join) them. One of the chief actors … (fall) ill and as I … (look) like him, I took his place. After I … (rehearse) a few times, I … (imitate) his gestures very well. In fact, while I … (act) several of his friends … (mistake) me for him and it was some time before the Producer … (convince) them that I was not the famous actor himself. "But … you ever (act) before?" I asked. "I … (act) in some plays produced by an amateur dramatic society, and when I … (have) to act before the camera I found it easier than I … (find) acting on the stage. As a matter of fact, when I was twenty, I … (think) of going on the stage, but a long illness … (put) that idea out of my head and I was obliged to take up an outdoor life for a time.