Задание 52 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
The Garden Party
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer.
The gardener had been up since GLOAMING / BREAKDAY / DUSK / DAWN, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden parties, the only flowers that everybody is certain to know.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put ON / UP / DOWN / OUT the tent.
‘Where do you want the tent put, mother?’ asked Laura. ‘My dear child, it’s no use asking me,’ replied her mother. ‘I’m DREAMING / ASSURED / DETERMINED / DECIDED to leave everything to my children this year. Forget I am your mother and treat me as an honoured guest.’
Her sister Meg could not PARTICULARLY / POSSIBLY / ESPECIALLY / USUALLY go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek.
So Laura flew away, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It’s so delicious to have an EXCUSE / EXPLANATION / IDEA / ALLOWANCE for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things. She always felt she could do it so much better than anybody elsе.
Four men in their shirt sleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. They carried staves covered with rolls of canvas, and they had big EQUIPMENT / GADGET / APPLIANCE / TOOL bags slung on their backs. They looked impressive. Laura wished now that she had not got the bread-and-butter, but there was nowhere to put it, and she couldn’t throw it OFF / DOWN / AWAY / ASIDE. She blushed and tried to look severe as she came up to them.
The Garden Party
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer.
The gardener had been up since DAWN, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden parties, the only flowers that everybody is certain to know.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put UP the tent.
‘Where do you want the tent put, mother?’ asked Laura. ‘My dear child, it’s no use asking me,’ replied her mother. ‘I’m DETERMINED to leave everything to my children this year. Forget I am your mother and treat me as an honoured guest.’
Her sister Meg could not POSSIBLY go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek.
So Laura flew away, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It’s so delicious to have an EXCUSE for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things. She always felt she could do it so much better than anybody elsе.
Four men in their shirt sleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. They carried staves covered with rolls of canvas, and they had big TOOL bags slung on their backs. They looked impressive. Laura wished now that she had not got the bread-and-butter, but there was nowhere to put it, and she couldn’t throw it AWAY. She blushed and tried to look severe as she came up to them.