Англиискии для вас Новый курс XXI века

Exercise 12. Insert the words given below.

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   Everyone is here except Johnny. He is still.... 2. The Wolves were ... with Johnny as they thought he ... them. 3. I wonder why he ... the opportunity to see the match last Saturday. 4. Don’t... . Everything is all right. 5. She could not... for the book. 6. You have got to apologize⁷² to the coach. Your words ... him as far as I could see. 7. They ... the idea to see the match. 8. He ... his leg during the last football match. 9. Will you please ... the documents to the director? 10. Have you paid the hotel... ? 11. What does this book ... with?
   

angry, to miss, bill, missing, to hurt, to deal, to reach, to injure, to fail, to hand, to welcome, to worry.
Exercise 13. a) Insert prepositions or adverbs, b) Give a summary of the story and discuss it.
This is our family ... all grown-ups. Father is the oldest. Mother does not consider herself old. My wife Jane is quite young.
For the weekends Father usually gels his ideas. Last Saturday when he was reading the newspaper he noticed an article which dealt... skiing contests. “Just think how much attention is given ... sports now," he said, “and we haven't put ... skis or skates ... ages. Shall we go skiing or skating tomorrow?”
Everybody welcomed the idea.
“Good,” Father concluded. “So tomorrow we can go ... the park to skate there.”
That's how it began. We started to look ... proper clothes to put... . Mother took Father's old trousers⁷³ and started to change them. Jane was worried ... her sweater which she thought was missing. I was sent to buy skating caps. When I was... about half an hour later and handed the caps ... Mother she got very angry ... me. “Why," she exclaimed, “what did you think about when you were buying the caps? They are all the same colour! We’ll have to keep away from each other if we are ... the ice!”
... two o’clock ... the morning we went... bed.
When I woke the morning the weather was bad. “Wake ... everybody!”
I shouted. “Are you crazy?” my wife said angrily still halfasleep. “Oh, he always jokes in a silly⁷⁴ way,” my mother remarked ... her bedroom, “h's eleven o’clock,” I said. “It's time to go ... the park to skate, don’t you think so?” Father appeared ... the bathroom. He looked tired, almost sick. ... breakfast Father reached ... his newspaper and took it up. “Look,” he suddenly exclaimed, “they say swimming is the best way of losing weight.⁷⁵ Don’t you think we should go swimming?” We all agreed with him.