Упр.21 Unit 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс
21. Complete the text with the right forms of the verbs in brackets. Seeing the FutureOne morning in 1974, a woman called Lesley Brennan 1) was watching a film on television when she 2) heard a news story.
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21. Complete the text with the right forms of the verbs in brackets.
Seeing the Future
One morning in 1974, a woman called Lesley Brennan 1) was watching a film on television when she 2) heard a news story. It was about an explosion at a factory at Fixborough, near her home in the north of England. The story said that many people 3) had been killed in the explosion. At lunchtime she 4) told two friends about the terrible news. But later she discovered that the explosion 5) happened around 5 p. m. , several hours after she 6) heard about it.
A man called Morgan Robertson 7) wrote a book about a very big ship, the Titan, which 8) sank after hitting an iceberg. The book 9) appeared in 1898, fourteen years before the real ship Titanic 10) went down in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Actually, after each terrible accident, some people say they knew it 11) would happen. Train or plane passengers often say that they 12) chose not to travel on that day, but they cannot usually explain why.
An even stranger story 13) was told about Winston Churchill, who 14) escaped death in 1940, during the Second World War. The Prime minister 15) got into his car and 16) chose to sit on the opposite side of his usual one. While the car 17) was driving through a narrow street, a bomb 18) explored the car 19) went over on two wheels but 20) did not crash, because it was heavy on that side.
Abraham Lincoln 21) had a dream. In his dream he 22) was walking through the White House and 23) saw a dead man. He asked who it was and 24) was told it was the president. A few days later he 25) was shot and 26) killed at the theatre.
Magicians say that there 27) are many ways to see the future. They look at cards, tea leaves, or a glass ball, and tell you who you 28) will marry or what kind of career you (make) 29) will make. Some of them have more success than others. The greatest was probably the sixteenth century French doctor, Nostradamus. You can still 30) read his mysterious writings and decide for yourself what you think.