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.
Diana
Diana had been hoping to get away by 5:00, so she could be at the farm in time for dinner. She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskings, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that (1) ______ the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to (2) ______ her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.
To (3) ______ the truth, it was always the same on a Friday. The phones would go quiet in the middle of the afternoon and then, just as she thought she could leave, a new document would land on her desk. Diana looked at the document and knew there would be no chance of escaping before 6:00.
Diana adored her children. At first (4) ______ she looked happy. The demands of being a single parent as well as a director of a small but thriving City company meant there were (5) ______ moments left in any day to relax. When it came to the one weekend in four that James and Caroline spent with her ex-husband, Diana would try to leave the office a little earlier than usual to avoid the weekend traffic.
She read through the first page slowly, aware that any mistake (6) ______ hastily on a Friday evening could be (7) ______ in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as the signed the final page of the document. It was just showing 5:51.
- A) compelled B) obliged C) required D) demanded
- A) remember B) remind C) recall D) recollect
- A) say B) talk C) speak D) tell
- A) look B) view C) sight D) glimpse
- A) little B) few C) many D) much
- A) made B) done C) held D) took
- A) apologized B) disappointed C) regretted D) dissatisfied
