Упр.32 Юнит 3 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс
A. Open the brackets and make the story complete.
The Roman Treasure
Thirty years ago I was still unmarried and (1) ______ with my mother. One morning in April, while I (2) ______ a newspaper, I (3) ______ across some information about a remarkable find of Roman silver. It (4) ______ discovered three years before by a farmer from Mildenhall, in Suffolk, but the discovery for some reason (5) ______ kept secret until then.
The newspaper article gave the name of the farmer as Gordon Butcher. The moment I read the story I (6) ______ up from my chair and rushed out to my car. Mildenhall was about a hundred miles from my home and I (7) ______ I (8) ______ get there before lunchtime. I (9) ______ about the town for about half an hour before I (10) ______ the small house belonging to Gordon Butcher and his family.
He (11) ______ lunch when I knocked on the door. When I asked him if he could talk to me about the treasure, he answered: “No, I (12) ______ enough of reporters.” I told him I (13) ______ a reporter but a short-story writer working for magazines and that if he (14) ______ me exactly how he (15) ______ the treasure, then I (16) ______ write a truthful story about it and (17) ______ the money equally with him. I (18) ______ him (19) ______ help me and he (20) ______.
B. Think of how the story might end.
A.
1) lived
2) was reading
3) came across
4) had been discovered
5) had been kept secret
6) sprang up
7) knew
8) would get
9) had ridden
10) found
11) was having
12) have had
13) wasn’t
14) told
15) had found
16) would write
17) would split
18) expected
19) to help
20) did
B. One possible ending:
He did. Gordon Butcher agreed to tell me the whole story. He showed me the place where he had found the treasure and explained how he had noticed the silver while working in the field. I listened carefully and wrote everything down. Later I wrote a story about the discovery, and it was published in a magazine. The article was a success, and I kept my promise to share the money with him.
