Упр.22 Юнит 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 10 класс

Choose the appropriate words (a—d) to complete the text.

I was badly homesick during the whole of my first term at St Peter’s School. So I decided to do something to get myself sent home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop (1) ________. You will probably think it silly that a nine-year-old boy should imagine he could get (2) ________ with a trick like that, but I had good reasons for trying it on. Only a month before my elder half-sister had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to (3) ________ her behaviour. I noticed that the thing she (4) ________ about most was a severe pain down in the lower right side of her tummy. As well as this, she kept being sick and refused to eat and (5) ________ a temperature. You might, by the way, be interested to know that my sister had her appendix (6) ________ not in a fine hospital operating-room full of bright lights and efficient nurses but on our own nursery table at home by the local doctor and his anesthetist. In those days it was fairly common practice for a doctor to (7) ________ at your own house with a bag of instruments, then drape a sterile sheet over the most convenient table and get on with it.

(after Roald Dahl)

1. a) an attack
   b) a battle
   c) an illness
   d) a disease

2. a) along
   b) on
   c) away
   d) down

3. a) view
   b) look
   c) observe
   d) experience

4. a) mentioned
   b) told
   c) declared
   d) complained

5. a) ran
   b) rode
   c) drove
   d) went

6. a) returned
   b) removed
   c) redone
   d) revised

7. a) come
   b) go
   c) arrive
   d) travel