ГРАММАТИКА И ЛЕКСИКА
Упражнение 11
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A GOOD SHORT STORY
Reading has always been an enormous source of 1)... for me. I particularly like short stories, especially those with unusual 2)....
1) ENJOY 2) END
One of the most 3)... stories I've ever read is called Exit. 3) USUAL
It was in a 4)... of short stories we read when I was at school. It is not exactly a ghost story, but it is very 5)... . 4) COLLECT 5) MYSTERY
It the story, a group of people at a country hotel are playing party games. A man called Desmond says he can make one of the other guests vanish without a trace. At the beginning of the story, there is a brief 6).... of cach of the people so the reader knows that two of the guests are on their honeymoon. 6) DESCRIBE
The lights are turned out so that the room is in total 7)... . 7) DARK
The game starts, but none of the guests is taking it very 8)... . 8) SERIOUS
Desmond describes the physical sensations that the person who is going to vanish will feel. When the game ends, the lights are switched back on and everyone laughs and says how 9)... it was. 9) AMUSE
They all get ready to go to bed. It is only then that the reader realizes that the girl who was on her honeymoon is now single. Neither she nor any of the other guests is aware of the 10)... of her husband. In fact, they don't have any recillection of his 11)... . He has,as Desmond promised, vanished without trace.
10) APPEAR 11) EXIST
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1. enjoyment; 2. ending; 3. unusual; 4. collection; 5. mysterious; 6. description; 7. darkness; 8. seriously; 9. amusing; 10. appearance; 11. existence