Задание 58 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
Taming Birds
The most amazing thing happened this morning. I still can’t believe it! Everyone knows how much I love feeding birds. In fact, I have several feeders around the yard. So, today, just as I was ABOUT / ROUND / CLOSE / AROUND to fill one of my feeders, I noticed a chickadee perched on the lower branch of a NEARLY / NEAR / NEARER / NEARBY tree. The little bird seemed to be watching me.
Of course, chickadees really like sunflower seeds, and that’s what I always put in this feeder. I FIGURED / COUNTED / ESTIMATED / DECIPHERED it was probably hungry and just waiting for me to finish up and leave. It was then that I got this great idea.
Chickadees are supposed to be easy to hand-tame. Well, the chickadee was still perched on the tree, and I had the seeds, so I decided to try. I took a GROUP / BUNCH / NUMBER / PILE of seeds, held out my hand – palm up – next to the feeder and stood very still. I didn’t even SCRAPE / TICKLE / SCRATCH / ITCH my nose when it started to itch! About a minute later, the chickadee flew to the tree closest to the feeder. I STOPPED / FROZE / SUPPRESSED / HELD my breath and waited.
It didn’t fly to my hand, but it did fly to the feeder! It took a seed and flew off to eat it. I knew it would be back, so I continued to watch and wait. And sure AS WELL / ENOUGH / AWAY / IT WAS, in about half an hour of patient waiting my stubbornness was rewarded and the chickadee landed on my hand!
Taming Birds
The most amazing thing happened this morning. I still can’t believe it! Everyone knows how much I love feeding birds. In fact, I have several feeders around the yard. So, today, just as I was ABOUT to fill one of my feeders, I noticed a chickadee perched on the lower branch of a NEARBY tree. The little bird seemed to be watching me.
Of course, chickadees really like sunflower seeds, and that’s what I always put in this feeder. I FIGURED it was probably hungry and just waiting for me to finish up and leave. It was then that I got this great idea.
Chickadees are supposed to be easy to hand-tame. Well, the chickadee was still perched on the tree, and I had the seeds, so I decided to try. I took a BUNCH of seeds, held out my hand – palm up – next to the feeder and stood very still. I didn’t even SCRATCH my nose when it started to itch! About a minute later, the chickadee flew to the tree closest to the feeder. IHELD my breath and waited.
It didn’t fly to my hand, but it did fly to the feeder! It took a seed and flew off to eat it. I knew it would be back, so I continued to watch and wait. And sure ENOUGH, in about half an hour of patient waiting my stubbornness was rewarded and the chickadee landed on my hand!
