Номер 37, страница 51 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit 2. The printed page: books, magazines, newspapers. IV. Use of English - номер 37, страница 51.

Условие.

37 Open the brackets to complete the text.

In this famous work by the American author O. Henry a very poor man, Tripp, tells the narrator, a newspaper journalist, a true story in return for one dollar. This is the beginning of his story.

O. Henry

"What is the story?" I asked.

"I (1) (tell) _________ you," said Tripp.

"It's a girl. A beauty. She (2) (live) _________ in the country twenty years and (3) (not see) _________ New York City before. I ran against her on Thirty-fourth Street. She (4) (stop) _________ me on the street and (5) (ask) _________ _________ me where she (6) (can) _________ find George Brown. What do you think of that?

Some years ago George Brown, her sweet-heart, (7) (set) _________ off for New York to make his fortune. He (8) (not see) _________ since then. So this morning Ada — her name's Ada Lowery — came to the city (9) (look) _________ for George Brown. She thought the first person she (10) (meet) _________ (11) (say) _________ : 'George Brown? — why, yes — let me see — he's a short man with light-blue eyes, isn't he? Oh yes — he can (12) (find) _________ on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, right next to the grocery.' That's about how innocent she is.

What (13) (can) _________ I do? I (14) (have) _________ no money, as usual, and she (15) (pay) _________ her last cent of pocket-money for her railroad ticket."

Решение.

Решение 2.

Раскройте скобки, чтобы дополнить текст.

Ответ:

1. will tell / расскажу

2. had lived / жила

3. had not seen / не видела

4. stopped / остановила

5. asked / спросила

6. could / могла

7. set / отправился

8. has not seen / не видел

9. to look / чтобы искать

10. met / встретила

11. said / сказал

12. be found / можно найти

13. could / мог

14. had / было

15. had paid / заплатила