Задание 34 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
What a Trick!
Lisa and I have been friends since the third grade. We both loved to ride our bikes and loved spending the holidays, weekends, and summers together.
One summer, we settled ON / DOWN / UP / FOR cleaning up her room. As soon as we started, Lisa’s mom called her for some help. Vacuuming was my favorite part of cleaning, so I decided to clean up every spot. When I bent over to suсk up the dust under the dresser, I found a book with the word DIARY on it.
The book was bright pink and looked more like old scraps of paper than a diary. Usually I would not snoop in private belongings, but when I picked it up from underneath the dresser I saw that the pages were messed up and I decided to put them back together. While doing so, I saw my name in a passage that really PAID / HELD / KEPT / CAUGHT my attention: ‘It made me cry when Papa told me we’re moving to Sri Lanka. He told me not to tell Nadine because it might break her heart. Well, I will just enjoy the last summer I have now.’
Friends help me realize my good qualities. Even though I felt DISTRACTED / DISTRAUGHT / DISTORT / DISTRUST over the situation, I decided not to spoil our friendship. At that point, I BROKE / DID / MADE / SAID a vow to give Lisa the best summer I could.
The next day, Lisa had complete control. I ALLOWED / GOT / LET / MADE her do things I even hated doing. We went to the boring museum. We watched her stupid brother, Line, do his band show. Finally, Lisa became SURPRISED / INTERESTED / KEEN / AWARE of what I was doing. ‘Why are you doing all this? It’s not my birthday or anything.’
‘Lisa, I know you’re moving to Sri Lanka. I’ve read your diary,’ I confessed.
‘Are you talking about this?’ Lisa held up the same pink notepad I saw the previous day and started to laugh. ‘This notebook isn’t my diary. It was a novel I started on. I was making a story about you and me.’
I felt relieved but confused and I couldn’t STAND / HELP / WAIT / FEEL but ask, ‘What about the title? It does say ‘DIARY’ on it?’
‘I put that there so no one would read it until I finished. Do you really think I would move to Sri Lanka and not tell you? Ha, that’s a laugh!’ Lisa exploded with unstoppable laughter.
What a Trick!
Lisa and I have been friends since the third grade. We both loved to ride our bikes and loved spending the holidays, weekends, and summers together.
One summer, we settled ON cleaning up her room. As soon as we started, Lisa’s mom called her for some help. Vacuuming was my favorite part of cleaning, so I decided to clean up every spot. When I bent over to suсk up the dust under the dresser, I found a book with the word DIARY on it.
The book was bright pink and looked more like old scraps of paper than a diary. Usually I would not snoop in private belongings, but when I picked it up from underneath the dresser I saw that the pages were messed up and I decided to put them back together. While doing so, I saw my name in a passage that really CAUGHT my attention: ‘It made me cry when Papa told me we’re moving to Sri Lanka. He told me not to tell Nadine because it might break her heart. Well, I will just enjoy the last summer I have now.’
Friends help me realize my good qualities. Even though I felt DISTRAUGHT over the situation, I decided not to spoil our friendship. At that point, I MADE a vow to give Lisa the best summer I could.
The next day, Lisa had complete control. I LET her do things I even hated doing. We went to the boring museum. We watched her stupid brother, Line, do his band show. Finally, Lisa became AWARE of what I was doing. ‘Why are you doing all this? It’s not my birthday or anything.’
‘Lisa, I know you’re moving to Sri Lanka. I’ve read your diary,’ I confessed.
‘Are you talking about this?’ Lisa held up the same pink notepad I saw the previous day and started to laugh. ‘This notebook isn’t my diary. It was a novel I started on. I was making a story about you and me.’
I felt relieved but confused and I couldn’t HELP but ask, ‘What about the title? It does say ‘DIARY’ on it?’
‘I put that there so no one would read it until I finished. Do you really think I would move to Sri Lanka and not tell you? Ha, that’s a laugh!’ Lisa exploded with unstoppable laughter.
