Практика по разделу «Грамматика и лексика»: задания 30 — 36

{"questions":[{"content":"Simon and I were in a school football team. Occasionally, the team took field trips to places outside of our neighbourhood on the weekends. Last week, our coach Mr Brown [[fill_choice_big-1]] we were going on a hike through a forest in a state park.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["announced","promoted","presented","extended"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Simon is my best friend, and the two of us had both liked the trips to the museums, plays, and basketball games. We weren’t all that [[fill_choice_big-2]] in the outdoors.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-2":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["interested","excited","delighted","inspired"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"[[fill_choice_big-3]] Mr Brown claimed that we’d really enjoy discovering how amazing nature can be – especially for big city kids. Simon and I were sure we’d rather be home playing video games.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-3":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["Although","Otherwise","However","Moreover"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Now we were in a state park, marching through woods as [[fill_choice_big-4]] as a grizzly bear’s fur.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-4":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["thick","strong","heavy","rich"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"I looked around, shouting, “Check out that tree – it’s kinda cool. Doesn’t its shape [[fill_choice_big-5]] you of an elephant?”","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-5":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["remind","reflect","review","remember"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"For the next few minutes, we got caught up in [[fill_choice_big-7]] flowers, leaves, animals, and little caves we hadn’t seen before.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-7":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["objecting","observing","obtaining","offending"],"answer":1}}},{"content":"Out here, away from the city, I was starting to get what Mr Brown had [[fill_choice_big-6]] us about how wonderful nature could be.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-6":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["told","spoke","talked","said"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Gwen opened one eye and saw through the window the white wonderland she woke up to for most of the winter in her native town.<br />What she saw [[fill_choice_big-106]] her of Christmas postcards.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-106":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["reminded","reminded","remembered","resembled"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"The town was small, almost two hours north of Chicago, with a population of ten thousand.<br />The house she lived in had been her mother’s, and she owned it with her sister Molly. They agreed that if they ever sold it, they’d split the proceeds equally. But for now, [[fill_choice_big-175]] Molly didn’t need the money.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-175":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["at least","at first","at ease","at times"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Her husband owned a busy plumbing company, and the house was a good investment and likely to [[fill_choice_big-253]] in value, so she’d never asked Gwen to sell it.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-253":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["increase","develop","expand","extend"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Gwen had once escaped her native town to[[fill_choice_big-360]] the University of Chicago, and had loved it for the three years she’d been there.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-360":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["attend","admit","accept","assist"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"She had big dreams then, and wanted to work in publishing in Washington after she [[fill_choice_big-467]] from the University.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-467":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["graduated","completed","fulfilled","finished"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"But then her mother got sick at the end of senior year and Gwen had to leave to look [[fill_choice_big-584]] her.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-584":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["after","into","over","upon"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Gwen took the first semester of senior year off to be with her and never [[fill_choice_big-711]] it.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-711":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["regretted","dissatisfied","revealed","disappointed"],"answer":0}}}]}

{"questions":[{"content":"Melanie loved her family very much. She adored her nephews. Now they were fourteen and seventeen.<br />They were good kids, who had no ambition to leave their native town. 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Then she [[fill_choice_big-253]] about her sister’s present — the DVDs.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-253":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["remembered","reviewed","resembled","reminded"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"She could [[fill_choice_big-330]] wait for the film to start.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-330":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["hardly","really","merely","rarely"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"She hopped into bed, pulled up the covers, and turned [[fill_choice_big-444]] the light as the first episode began.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-444":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["off","in","at","on"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"She was [[fill_choice_big-531]] by the beautiful costumes.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-531":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["interested","influenced","impressed","improved"],"answer":2}}},{"content":"A family [[fill_choice_big-677]] of all the important actors on the show.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-677":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["including","involving","consisting","containing"],"answer":1}}},{"content":"Several of the men looked familiar to her, even though it was a French production, but she had seen them in movies. It was everything that [[fill_choice_big-782]] to her in French books and movies.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-782":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["attracted","appealed","amazed","amused"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"She felt as though she had been pulled into a different world where her own life ceased to matter; only theirs did. She was [[fill_choice_big-909]] by the castle and the staff.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-909":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["fascinating","interested","fascinated","interesting"],"answer":2}}},{"content":"The ravens are the unique guardians of the Tower of London. They have patrolled the Tower [[fill_choice_big-1046]] over 900 years.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1046":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["for","since","in","until"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"A well-known legend [[fill_choice_big-1191]] that should the ravens ever leave, the White Tower would collapse.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1191":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["tells","talks","says","speaks"],"answer":2}}},{"content":"They are kept at the Tower at the [[fill_choice_big-1362]] of the British government.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1362":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["price","payment","account","expense"],"answer":2}}},{"content":"Ravens respond only to the Ravenmaster, who [[fill_choice_big-1528]] care of their feeding and well-being.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1528":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["holds","gives","helps","takes"],"answer":3}}},{"content":"During World War II, the number of ravens decreased dramatically, it [[fill_choice_big-1703]]","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1703":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["reached","achieved","arrived","entered"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"Thanks to visitors, the Tower has [[fill_choice_big-1872]] money to start its own breeding programme.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-1872":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["raised","taken","kept","earned"],"answer":0}}},{"content":"The ravens are now a national icon for the British, and [[fill_choice_big-2089]] many tourists make a special effort to see them.","widgets":{"fill_choice_big-2089":{"type":"fill_choice_big","options":["therefore","however","nevertheless","although"],"answer":0}}}]}