ЕГЭ-3329

 

Задания 32-38

 

 

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1 – 7. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 1 – 7, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов (А, B, C, D). Установите соответствие номера пропуска варианту ответа. 

 

 

Margaret

 

Old Margaret was just the kind of cook that we wanted. Lots of cooks can do rich dishes well. Margaret couldn’t. But she (1) ______ to cook simple, everyday dishes in a way that made our mouths water. Her apple-pies were the best pies I’ve ever tasted.

But to (2) ______ the truth, even Margaret sometimes miscalculated. A large, royal-looking steak would be set before Father, which, upon being cut into, would turn (3) ______ to be underdone. Father’s face would darken with disappointment. He would raise his foot and stamp slowly and heavily three times on the rug.

At this solemn (4) ______ , we would hear Margaret leave the kitchen below us and come up the stairs to the dining-room door.

“Margaret, look at the steak.”

Margaret would peer with a shocked look at the platter. She would then seize the platter and make off with it.

Father and Margaret were united by the intense interest they both took in cooking.  Each understood the other instinctively. I have to (5) ______ that they had a complete fellow-feeling. Mother’s great interest was in babies. She loved her children and her happiness depended (6) ______ them. She wanted to keep Father pleased somehow, and if it was too difficult or impossible she didn’t always care about even that.

At table it was Father who carved the fowl, or sliced the roast lamb or beef. I liked to (7) ______ him take the knife and go at it. And usually the cooking had been as superb as the carving. Sometimes it was so perfect that Father would summon Margaret and say in a low voice, “You are a good cook”.

 

 

  1. A) used                                                B) kept                                         C) held                                          D) took
  2. A) speak                                              B) tell                                           C) talk                                            D) say
  3. A) out                                                  B) of                                              C) over                                          D) into
  4. A) sign                                                 B) signal                                     C) gesture                                     D) movement
  5. A) accept                                             B) agree                                      C) admit                                        D) adopt
  6. A) on                                                    B) of                                             C) in                                               D) at
  7. A) look                                                 B) see                                          C) gaze                                           D) watch

 

 

 

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