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47. What do you do? a) I'm doing well, thank you. b) Nothing to boast of. c) I'm a student. 48. How's life? a) Not at all. b) Nothing to look at. c) Nothing to boast of. Thank you. 49. Thank you for your help. a) Never mind. b) It's a pleasure for me. c) Glad to hear it. 50. An American lady (who, which) was travelling in England got onto a compartment in a smoking carriage where (an, the) Englishman was smoking a pipe. For a (short, shortly) time she was sitting (quite, quietly) expecting (that, what) the Englishman would stop smoking. Then she began to cough trying in this (way, road) to show him that she objected to the smoke. At last she addressed him (patiently, impatiently): "If you were a gentlemen you would have stopped smoking when a lady got into the carriage." "If you were a lady", (told, replied) the Englishman, "you wouldn't have got into a smoking carriage". Test 67 Use the proper form: 1. Some women don't cut their ... and wear ... long all their lives. a) hair c) them b) hairs d) it 2. Didn't you see that the boots you were buying ... a pair? a) isn't c) wasn't b) aren't d) weren't 3. He can't leave the country until the police ... his passport. a) return c) will return b) returns d) would return 139
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