Упр.6 Check your progress Юнит 6 New Millennium English 9 класс
6 Open the brackets using the correct tense: the present perfect or past simple.THE HISS OF LIFE OR HOW A NURSE SAVED A SNAKE NAMED NIPPERWhen a snake (1)...
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6 Open the brackets using the correct tense: the present perfect or past simple.
THE HISS OF LIFE OR HOW A NURSE SAVED A SNAKE NAMED NIPPER
When a snake (1)... (stop
breathing during surgery, veterinary nurse Claire Farina (2)... (revive)iit with the "kiss of life". As she (3)... (blow) gently into the reptiletasks mouth, she (4)... (keep) thinking about its young owner, knowing he would be heartbroken if it (5)... (die). Thanks to her, the pregnant five-foot Californian king snake (6)... already (deliver) five little ones. "It (7)... (be) a bit scary getting so close to Nippertasks big teeth," Miss Farina, 23, (8)... (tell) us yesterday. "Itaskm happy Nipper (9)... (gave birth) successfully to five mini-Nippers!" The brown and white striped king snake, which is not poisonous and is similar to a harmless python, (10)... (be owned) by 13-year-old Ryan for four years. The snake (11)... never (produce) young ones before. "When Nipper suddenly (12)... (become) still it was a horrible moment. So I thought it was worth trying the so-called kiss of life — though because the patient was a snake it was more like the hiss of life!"