Unified State Exam. Tasks 30—36

BUSY DAY (Text 1) Choose the correct word to complete the text. Let me tell you what happened once when my dear Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He told us not to ______ and just watch him do it. He said he would do it by himself.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. Well, he came up to the picture which was waiting to be put up in the dining room and took it. But suddenly it fell down and the glass ______ into pieces and he cut his finger.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. He started to ______ his handkerchief but couldn’t find it because he had put it in his coat and none of us knew where his coat was.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered where the hammer had disappeared to. And while everybody was trying to get the hammer he was standing on the chair saying: ‘Well, I want to know if you are going to ______ me here all evening!’

Choose the correct word to complete the text. When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, everybody looked very ______ , all except Uncle Podger, who was lively as ever. Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do a job like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it was over.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. ‘Six of you!’ Uncle Podger exclaimed, ‘and you cannot find the coat that I put down only five minutes ago!’ But then he got up from his chair and found that he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. ‘Oh, you can stop your ______ . I’ve found it myself!’

Choose the correct word to complete the text. Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn’t keep ______ while he was waiting for another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about our habit of losing all the things he needed.

A STORYTELLER (Text 2) Choose the correct word to complete the text. In my early 20s, after a year and a half in England, and four months in France, I returned to the United States and got a job at a camp in northern Virginia. My ______ that summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. It was as if a river of stories had started flowing in each of us. When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want to ______ . ‘Can’t we just tell a few more stories?’ In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. At the end of the summer, a few of us went to ______ a cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds. The park rangers had told us to stay there if anything happened.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. We could not have been more different, but we got on because we shared the same ______ of humor.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. We worked together with a group of boys from 12 to 14 years old. I've always been a bit untidy, but Dan was ______ and clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. They knew where we were going, and when we should have been back. Dan hurt his right foot badly. So we had to ______ the night in the cave. Food and water were not a problem, but we turned off our lights to save power. In the distance, we could hear the sound of running water.

Choose the correct word to complete the text. To ______ the time, we told stories. That night in the cave we moved from one family story to another. As the night wore on, I remembered more and more. I was not alone — the cave, the blue light and the flowing water released stories and memories that we had never revealed to anyone.