Question

Ex. 4. (В, С) Insert the Past Indefinite or the Past Perfect.-раскрыть скобки


1. We hardly (leave) town, when it ____________ (begin) to rain. 2. The

moon ,______________ (not / rise). There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night. 3. On

glancing at the address, he observed that it contained no name. The stranger_____________

__________________ (not/ go) far, so he followed him to ask it. 4. When at his house , they

________ (tell) me that he ____________ (leave) an hour ago. 5. No sooner he _____________

(take) a drink himself, than Mrs Fettle (look) in. 6. When I ____________ (come) to see my

friend, I _______________ (find) him lying in bed. He _________________ (look) very pale as he

____________ (be) seriously ill for a whole month. 7. He hardly __________________ (light) an­other cigarette, when the general ______________ (come) into the courtyard. 8. Gemma went

slowly down the stairs, Martini following in silence. She___________(grow) to look ten years

older in these few days, and her hair ____________ (become) gray. 9. Presently the sounds

of voices and footsteps approaching along the terrace roused her from the dreamy state into

which she _______________ (fall). 10. She was a woman of nearly fifty who._____________(be) obviously pretty once. 11. Moreover, to him, the doctor, the affair was the commonplace; it was just a hysterical woman who ________ (quarrel) with her friend and ____________(take) poison. 12. I____________ (leave) home at 8 o'clock, but I___________ (not/go) far when I______________ (remeber) that I____________ (forget) to lock my door. 13. When Alison ________ (disappear) the first strains of the orchestra came stealing out to me

from inside the hall. 14. Scarcely I ____________ (close) the door when a gust of wind

____________ (open) it again.

Answer 1

1.Left, had begun
2.Hadn't risen
3.Hadn't gone
4.Told, had left
5.Had taken, looked
6.Had come, found,looked,had been
7.Had hardly lit, came
8.Had grown,became
9.Had fallen
10.Was
11.had quarreled, took
12.Left, hadn't gone, <u />remembered, had forgotten
13.Had disappear
14.Had closed, opened