Тесты по грамматике

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 18–26, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию 18–26.

My mum calls me Snow White. It was my ____ONE_____  nickname but it stuck to me forever. And it’s not because I love the fairy tale about the princess and the seven dwarfs. It’s because my skin is very sensitive and intolerant to the sun. Every time it is exposed to the sun's rays, it _____GET____ red and swollen. I can’t really recognize _____I______ in the mirror. Mum says that from my very early days I differed from all the other _____BABY____ around and needed special care. Whenever we went for a walk, she _____HAVE____ to apply sun protective lotion all over my face and the parts of the body that were not covered with clothes. I grew older but the situation didn’t get any ____GOOD____. Until now I ___NOT/FIND___ a medicine to cure my strange illness. My skin problem is not a serious thing of course, but it doesn’t allow me to do everything I want. I wish I ____CAN_____ sunbathe, windsurf and play beach volleyball with my friends. But all I can do is watch them from the shade. According to our family legend, it ____RAIN____ hard at the moment when I was born. Since that time, rainy days have always been my luckiest.

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I play the violin in the college orchestra. Last month we ____TAKE_______ part in a music festival in France. I worried a lot before we left for France as I had never been away from home for so long. Mum tried to encourage ___I____. She said that we ____PERFORM___ well. And she was right. We performed very successfully. It was a great journey though there _____BE_________ some things I missed very much while being in France. One of them was my favourite mug. Without it, neither tea nor soup tasted like at home. Another thing was the warmth. The floor in my room at home ___COVER___ with a thick carpet. In our place in France the floor was icy cold with no carpet at all. My _FOOT___ were always cold. “If it goes on like this, I __CATCH___ a cold,” I told my roommate, Cathy. “I wish I __HAVE____ a pair of woolen socks. But I left them at home.” “You can take mine if you want,” said Cathy. I thanked her but her socks were two sizes ___SMALL__ than I needed!

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I was happy to take part in the exchange programme and to go to college in Britain. An opportunity to spend two ____MONTH_______ in London sounded fantastic. Our teacher told us that we ____LIVE____ in a student hostel. It was going to be ___CONVENIENT____ than staying with a host family as the hostel was very close to the college. When we arrived in London, the ___ONE__ thing we had was a bus excursion round the British capital. Unfortunately, when we ___PASS____ Westminster Abbey, it started to rain hard. We had to go down to the lower level of our double-decker and we ____NOT/MANAGE____ to enjoy the wonderful sights. Anyway, London is very impressive. People from all over the world live there. Some of __THEY____ come as tourists, others choose this place to study or to work in. It is a dynamic multicultural city, though there ___BE____ so many historical buildings in it. Amazingly, many of the houses __BUILD____ centuries ago!