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16. What (shall, should) we do tonight? - We (could, will) go out, I think. 17. My brother (decide) to open his own restaurant, so he (have) (a, the, —) meeting with his bank manager tomorrow and he (want) to ask him for (a, the, —) loan. 18. I'm tired. I (work) very hard (so far, just, lately). 19. Do you know how long she (work) there before she retired? - She still (work) there. 20. Most ballads (base) on facts. They say that Robin Hood lived in the forest as (a/an, the) outlaw. He robbed only (a, the, -) rich people and helped (a, the, -) poor. 21. Ann told me she (work) hard in the lab the previous day. 22. There (be) too much traffic on the roads today. - Yes, the traffic (be) murderous in big cities nowadays. 23. Money spent on the brain (be) never spent in vain. 24. Three (beers/beer), please. - Oh, not for me. I've had two (beers/beer) today. 25. I (use) to love cooking but I never get the time nowadays. 26. Everything (be) still and peaceful in London's parks and you (could, may, must) hardly imagine that an enormous city with its traffic and noise is but a few paces away. 27. (Most/the most) children like this game. This is (popu lar) game for most children. 28. The journey (to, for, in) Paris took much (long) before they built the Channel Tunnel. 29. Britain's ... art, ... culture and ... literature flowered during ... Elizabethan age, ... reign of Elizabeth I; it was ... period of English domination of the oceans, (a, the, -) 30. ... North Pole and ... South Pole, two of the most inaccessible points on ... earth attracted explorers for many years, (a, the, -) 211
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