Ответ: Choose the Correct Verb

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Mary

When Mary left her office, she walked home to her apartment on Twilight Road. The chill of the early morning made her 32 ______ her hands into the pockets of her stylish jacket and pick up her pace. The weather brought to mind a long-forgotten line from Little Women. One of the sisters – she couldn’t 33 ______ whether it was Berth or Amy – said that November was a disagreeable month, and Jo agreed, commenting that that was why she was born in it.

Me, too, Mary thought, “My birthday is November the twenty-forth. The Thanksgiving baby they called me. Thanksgiving and birthdays 34 ______to be fun, but not for me. I had to jog between two dinners and there was no one to help me. It was a problem to manage two dinners in different places at the same time. Of course, my domestic problem is small, compared with Millie’s,” she thought as she 35 ______ her street and turned west. Millie was her best friend and she was in 36 ______.

Yesterday her meeting with Millie was strange. Millie had stayed at the office for about an hour. Over a cup of tea, Millie had insisted that Mary keep the turquoise ring. “If something were to happen to me, it’s important that you have it just in 37 ______ the woman who phoned you contacts you again,” she had said. She doesn’t mean if something happens to her; she means when, Mary thought, as she opened the door and turned 38 ______the light in her apartment.