Упр.21 Unit 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс

Complete the text with the right forms of the verbs in brackets.

Seeing the Future

One morning in 1974, a woman called Lesley Brennan 1) ______ a film on television when she 2) ______ a news story. It was about an explosion at a factory at Fixborough, near her home in the north of England. The story said that many people 3) ______ in the explosion. At lunchtime she 4) ______ two friends about the terrible news. But later she discovered that the explosion 5) ______ around 5 p. m., several hours after she 6) ______ about it.

A man called Morgan Robertson 7) ______ a book about a very big ship, the Titan, which 8) ______ after hitting an iceberg. The book 9) ______ in 1898, fourteen years before the real ship Titanic 10) ______ in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

Actually, after each terrible accident, some people say they knew it 11) ______. Train or plane passengers often say that they 12) ______ not to travel on that day, but they cannot usually explain why.

An even stranger story 13) ______ about Winston Churchill, who 14) ______ death in 1940, during the Second World War. The Prime Minister 15) ______ into his car and 16) ______ to sit on the opposite side of his usual one. While the car 17) ______ through a narrow street, a bomb 18) ______, the car 19) ______ over on two wheels but 20) ______, because it was heavy on that side.

Abraham Lincoln 21) ______ a dream. In his dream he 22) ______ through the White House and 23) ______ a dead man. He asked who it was and 24) ______ it was the president. A few days later he 25) ______ and 26) ______ at the theatre.

Magicians say that there 27) ______ many ways to see the future. They look at cards, tea leaves, or a glass ball, and tell you who you 28) ______ or what kind of career you 29) ______. Some of them have more success than others. The greatest was probably the sixteenth-century French doctor, Nostradamus. You can still 30) ______ his mysterious writings and decide for yourself what you think.