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Exercise 5. Insert the Past Indefinite or Past Continuous.

1. Montanelli entered the room where Arthur __ for him at the supper table, (to wait) (Voynich)2. Miss Marple's telephone rang when she __ (to dress) (Christie)3. I lighted my pipe afresh and nodded to him to show that I __ (to listen) (Leacock) 4. Leila felt the girls __ really __ her. They __ towards the men. (to see — negative, to look) (Mansfield)5. The Sergeant __ when his clients __. (to write, to enter) (Dickens)6. She __ constantly __ me to lunch and dine with her and once or twice a year. __ me to spend a week-end at her house in the country, (to ask, to invite) (Maugham)7. Gretta had the feeling that everyone __ at her, and she __ her eyes... (to look, to lower) (Caldwell)8. For some seconds she stood watching him and both __ very quickly, (to think) (Weils) 9. They walked on a little and then he __ she __ (to see, to cry) (Maugham)10. I looked at the First of the Barons. He __ salad, (to eat) (Mansfield)11. Clyde __ as she talked how different she was from Hortense. (to think) (Dreiser)12. Sir Henry looked into the lounge... In the lounge Hugo McLean __ a crossword puzzle and __ a good deal over it. (to do, to frown) (Christie)13. The storm grew worse and worse, and the rain fell in torrents, and little Hans could not see where he __. (to go) (Wilde)14. It was warm and cosy in the kitchen when he walked in. Madam Perier __ and her husband __ a Paris-Soir. Annette .— stockings, (to cook, to read, to darn) (Maugham)

Exercise 6. Translate into English.
(A)

1. Когда Давид приехал, Хэм уже ждал его. 2. Когда декан вошел в аудиторию, тов. Петров делал доклад. 3. Когда туристы вернулись, они увидели, что машина их уже ждет. 4. Она постоянно говорила о своем ребенке. 5. Том Сойер не мог играть со своими приятелями. Он белил забор. 6. Миссис Гуммидж постоянно жаловалась на холод.

(Р’)

1. «Когда я прошлой осенью готовился к вступительным экзаменам, я познакомился со многими студентами», —сказал Артур. 2. Уже солнце садилось, когда я подъехал к Кисловодску. (Лермонтов)3. Становилось темно. (Чехов)4. Около семи часов вечера я гулял на бульваре. (Лермонтов)5. Я сидел у окна, когда услышал стук их кареты.(Лермонтов)6. Она [Катя] беспрерывно краснела. (Тургенев)7. Час спустя Павел Петрович уже лежал в постели с забинтованной ногой. (Тургенев)8. Гости Маркелова еще спали, когда к нему явился посланец с письмом от его сестры. (Тургенев)9. Они вышли, когда было еще светло и дул сильный ветер. (Чаковский)10. Алехин подвинул свой стул ближе к столику, за которым играли два старика. (Котов)11. Он (Егор Семенович] работал с утра до ночи, все спешил куда-то. (Чехов)12. От двух до пяти Нежданов сидел у себя в комнате. (Тургенев)13. Она проснулась в ту самую минуту, когда я входил в комнату. (Достоевский)

Exercise 7. Insert the Past Indefinite or Past Continuous.

1. She heard him sigh while he __ (to read) (Collins)2. While the water __, Ma Parker began sweeping the floor, (to heat) (Mansfield)3. While he __ the tea she __ him. (to make, to watch) (Abrahams)4. Mrs. Presty __ at him with some anxiety on her daughter's account, while he __ the message on Randal's card, (to look, to read) (Collins)5. It was quite late at night, and the brother __ aloud while the sister __, her needle, when they were interrupted by a knocking at the door, (to read, to ply) (Dickens)6. While Mrs. Calligan __ the table Mamie went to her room and Aileen followed her. (to set) (Dreiser)7. While the doctor __, Mrs. Presty __ her own conclusions from a close scrutiny of Mr. Sarrazin's face, (to speak, to draw) (Collins)8. While he __ he __ the doorbell, then voices, (to wash, to hear) (Abrahams) 9. While the gendarmes __ the room, Arthur __ waiting on the edge of the bed. (to ransack, to sit) (Voynich)

Exercise 8. Insert the Present Perfect or Past Indefinite.

1. You __ never __ me why you're called Tony when your name is James, (to tell) (Galsworthy)2. 1 __ her name in the papers rather often of late, (to see) (Maugham)3. "The rain __, carino," Montanelli said after sunset. "Come out; I want to have a talk with you." (to stop) (Voynich)4. " __ you __ a job?" "There are none." (to find) (Galsworthy)5. " __ you __ all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima?" asked Miss Pinkerton. (to complete) (Thackeray)6. His father __ just a week ago to-day, (to die) (Galsworthy) 7. I know where you the morning, (to spend) (Austen)8. Gh! You __. someone with you. Introduce me. (to bring) (Shaw)9. Barbara! You __ the education of a lady. Please, let your father see that and don't talk like a street girl, (to have) (Shaw)10. ""Let's go," said Abra- niovici; "I __ my appetite." (to lose) (Heym)11. "Oh — oh —you are Mary Gerrard?... You __ I — I wouldn't have recognized you." (to change) (Christie)12. "Where's the paper?" asked Edward. «I __ the leading article yet." (to read — negative) (Maugham)13. Montanelli __ awake the whole night through, (to lie) (Voynich) 14. Mr. Worthing, I suppose, __ from London yet? (to return — negative) (Wilde)15. It's the most tasteless, repulsive idea I __ ever __ of (to hear). (Murdoch and Priestley) 16. Mother, I __ just __ to him. (to write) (Wilde)17. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren't they lovely? They __ up from Selley this morning. (to come) (Wilde)18. Young Mako __ a match, __ his pipe, and __ them slowly, (to strike, to light, to approach) (Abrahams) 19. In fact I __ just __ a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again, (to have) (Wilde)20. You __ even __ at that book I got you on the war in the Pacific, (to look — negative). (Murdoch)21. When __ you first __ the co-respondent...? (to see) (Galsworthy)22. We __ in silence for a few minutes. He __ at last, (to sit, to speak) (Dickens)23. "I __ so little experience yet," she said. "I only __ school yesterday, you see." (to have, to leave) (Beresford) 24. "I __ surely __ very long," returned Florence. "When __ I __ here? Yesterday?" (to sleep, to come) (Dickens)25. I __ Ann at her father's house twenty odd years ago and __ her ever since, (to meet, to know) (Stone)