Решение: Choose the Correct Adverb
Статья к заданиюEmily
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания.
Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Emily
Emily was disappointed. She finally settled on the one person she felt she could seek advice from. She decided to turn 30 ______ at the docks unannounced and hope George would be around when she knocked on his door.
She didn’t 31 ______ either of her brothers who she was visiting. One of them would try to stop her, while the other would feel she betrayed a confidence. Emily could 32 ______ wait until her day off, and once she had dropped Luke at school, she took a bus to the dockyard. She had chosen her time carefully: late morning, when George was still likely to be in his office, while her brothers would be fully 33 ______ loading or unloading cargo at the other end of the dock. Emily said to the man on the gate that she’d come to apply for a job as a cleaner. He pointed indifferently towards the red-brick building and still didn’t 34 ______ her. As she walked towards Spencer House, Emily looked up at the windows on the fifth floor and 35 ______ which office was his. She recalled her encounter with Mrs. Gray, and the way she had been shown the door the moment she mentioned her name. Now Emily not only had a job she 36 ______ and where she was respected, but she’d had two other offers in the past few days. She didn’t give Mrs. Gray another thought as she walked straight past the building and continued along the quayside.
Read the text with gaps and choose the word that best fits gap 32.
Решение по шагам
3 шагаПо контексту Эмили не могла долго ждать своего выходного дня: она почти не могла ждать.
Наречие hardly означает «едва, почти не» и образует правильное сочетание hardly wait.
Другие варианты не подходят: merely — «всего лишь», rarely — «редко», nearly — «почти» без отрицательного оттенка.
Где здесь ошибаются
Выбор nearly из-за сходства значения «почти»: nearly не передаёт значение «едва, почти не».
Путаница между hardly и rarely: hardly означает степень возможности, а rarely — частотность действия.