Рішення: Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
A woman (28) __________ on the 10th floor of an apartment building was shocked to discover a raccoon asleep on her balcony. She called experts from Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control to come remove the animal and return it to the wild. The raccoon had (29) __________ plans, though. When the team from Skedaddle (30) __________ the raccoon darted to the corner of the balcony, hoisted itself over the railing, and slowly inched backward down the building. After taking a break on a fourth-floor balcony, the raccoon resumed its trip to the ground, and ran away from the apartment building.
Larry Sorel, director of the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York, says balconies can be inviting places for raccoons to shelter, especially if food (31) __________ out. “Raccoons are great climbers — they can get almost (32) __________ with their human-like hands,” Sorel says. “But I’m surprised this raccoon climbed quite so high!”
Read the text below. For questions (28-32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Confirm your choice.
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5 кроківThe narrative describes a sequence of events in the past. The sentence uses "darted" which is in the simple past tense, indicating a past action.
The phrase "When the team from Skedaddle (30) __________ the raccoon darted..." suggests that the team's action (arriving) occurred just before or at the same time as the raccoon's action (darting).
Options A ("has arrived") and D ("have arrived") are in the present perfect tense, which is incorrect for a narrative set entirely in the past.
Option C ("had been arriving") is past perfect continuous, implying an ongoing action that continued up to another past point, which doesn't fit the immediate and completed action of the team's arrival.
Option B ("arrived") is in the simple past tense, which correctly places the team's arrival as a completed event in the past, directly preceding or coinciding with the raccoon darting. This makes the most grammatical and contextual sense for sequential past actions.