Решение: Choose the Correct Verb

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Sheila

Sheila had taken on a heavy load of six classes for her first semester. She wanted to get her obligatory classes out of the 30______ as quickly as possible, so she took more than she could enjoy. But she found that she liked the ones she had signed up for, including an eighteenth-century English literature class, which 31______ writing. She knew it was good for her to write more than crime stories and mysteries. She had a lot of reading to do at night, and loved being challenged by the work. Most of her high school classes had been easy for her, and it was exciting to be taking more challenging courses, taught by professors she 32______. She noticed that one of her roommates studied as much as she did and they went to the library together. She was from China and a physics major. She’d wanted to 33______ Oxford and didn’t get in, but was hoping to try again and transfer to sophomore year.

At the end of the first month, Sheila went home, delighted to see the family and have a weekend with them, 34______ she had brought home a lot of reading to do. She 35______ to write any of her own stories for a month, and was frustrated about it. Her sister Mary came to her room after dinner on her first night back, and they talked into the night. Mary was upset that Sheila had no social life, she preferred to spend every moment on her book. At last Sheila 36______ to finish the book.