Все вопросы к тесту (html) ПКОЯз. Английский язык. Домашнее чтение

Тестовые задания

Choose the right preposition: And yet, mon cher, I have a feeling that this is the 10th Labour ___ Hercules, and that this Dr. Andersen is the Monster Geryon whom it is my mission to destroy

Choose the right preposition: Eh bien, all progresses well — I make you my compliments on the work you have done — all is now set ___ the Autumn Festival

Choose the right preposition: Everyone was shocked — horrified... To them the Great Shepherd was a martyr, suffering as all great teachers, ___ the ignorance and persecution of the outside world

Choose the right preposition: Give what you can,” he said smiling. “It doesn’t matter. You are one ___ the flock just the same

Choose the right preposition: Good. That must keep Mrs. Clegg safe ___ some time

Choose the right preposition: He described some of them ___ me — really most peculiar — I hope, I do hope, he is not insane. Then there will be quite a lot of new members — nearly twenty

Choose the right preposition: He was very indifferent about it. Said it would be many long years before I died, that he could tell I had a long life of joy ___ front of me. He really speaks movingly

Choose the right preposition: Hercule Poirot looked thoughtfully ___ his visitor. He saw a pale face, big grey eyes and the blue-black locks of ancient Greece

Choose the right preposition: Hercule Poirot stared ___ her. Miss Carnaby rose to her feet. Her voice was fast and hysterical

Choose the right preposition: His manner was most convincing. One really feels he doesn’t care ___ money at all

Choose the right preposition: I believe in him heart and soul. And I am not going to do your spying work any more, Mr. Poirot. I am one of the Sheep of the Shepherd. And I’ll pay ___ my tea myself

Choose the right preposition: I think a hundred and twenty. Emmeline will be there, …course, and Mr. Cole — really he has been very odd lately. He has visions

Choose the right preposition: Lady Western died of tuberculosis. Had suffered from it many years ago. Miss Lee died of typhoid somewhere ___ the north of England

Choose the right preposition: Meanwhile Detective Inspector Cole was carefully packing up the syringe that had fallen ___ the Great Shepherd’s hand

Choose the right preposition: Mr. Cole aided ___ another devotee grasped the hand of the Great Shepherd who was struggling to get himself free

Choose the right preposition: Oh, Dr. Andersen,” I said, “I am not poor ___ all.” And then I explained that I had inherited a considerable amount of money from a distant relative and that I wanted to leave in my will all I had to the Brotherhood. I explained that I had no near relatives

Choose the right preposition: Oh, dear!” Miss Carnaby was flattered. “It’s so kind ___ you to say so. And I’m afraid, that I’ve really enjoyed it all. The excitement, you know, and playing my part. I really felt I was one of those foolish women

Choose the right preposition: On the afternoon preceding the Festival Miss Carnaby met Hercule Poirot in a small restaurant in the sleepy little town …Newton Woodbury. Miss Carnaby was flushed and even more breathless than usual

Choose the right preposition: That was a terrible moment ___ the restaurant. I didn’t know what to do. It was such a shock. Just when we had been talking confidentially I saw in the glass that Lipscomb, who keeps the Lodge of the Sanctuary*, was sitting at the table behind me

Choose the right preposition: The Festival took place in the white concrete building called ___ the Sheep the Sacred Fold

Choose the right preposition: The Great Shepherd, magnificent ___ his green robe, moved along the waiting lines... He stood by Miss Carnaby. His hands touched her arm

Choose the right preposition: The Sheep were assembled ___ the traditional Festival

Choose the right preposition: The big man, golden-haired and blue-eyed, with his fair beard and handsome profile had never seemed more magnificent. He was dressed in a green robe and carried a shepherd’s crook ___ gold

Choose the right preposition: The crowd obediently shut their eyes. Miss Carnaby like the rest held her arm out ___ front of her

Choose the right preposition: The waitress had to ask him twice before Poirot realized that she was giving him the bill. He met the curious stare of an unfriendly looking man ___ the next table, flushed, paid the bill and went out

Choose the right preposition: Their arms were bare. In the centre of the Fold ___ a raised platform stood Dr. Andersen

Choose the right preposition: There is nothing to connect these details with the Great Flock or with Andersen’s place down ___ Devonshire. Must be no more than coincidence

Choose the right preposition: There was a Mr. Cole there last time I went down ___ Devonshire. A most extraordinary man. He wears grass-green shorts and eats nothing but the cabbage. He is a very ardent believer

Choose the right preposition: There was a moment’s pause before Miss Carnaby said ___ a rather odd voice

Choose the right preposition: With these words Miss Carnaby threw down one shilling and rushed out ___ the restaurant

Choose the right preposition: Yes, I told him strictly confidentially that dear Emmeline, besides the fortune she had inherited from her husband, would inherit an even larger sum shortly from an aunt, who was deeply attached ___ her

Choose the right preposition: Yes, Mr. Poirot, I spoke ___ the Master — excuse me, to Dr. Andersen, myself. I told him very emotionally what a wonderful revelation the whole thing had been — how I had come to mock and remained to believe. Really it seemed quite natural to say all these things. Dr. Andersen, you know, has a lot of magnetic charm

Choose the right preposition: You sent me here to spy ___ Dr. Andersen. You suspected him of all sorts of things . But he is a wonderful man — a great Teacher

Correspond the left and right parts

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A criminal! Oh, ___ I suppose I am. But — but I never felt like that

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A faint sound came from Sir Joseph’s lips — they had gone a strange ___ colour. His eyes stared at Poirot. Then, with a shaking hand, he drew out a cheque and tore it into pieces

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A few moments later you gave the alarm that the ___ had been stolen

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And the ___ you extracted from Lady Hoggin must be returned

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As Poirot came in, a Pekinese dog jumped off the sofa and sniffed him, his intelligent eyes fixed on the man’s …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As for you, mon ___,” said Hercule, addressing Augustus, “there is one thing that I wish you would give me

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Augustus put it into my head — that, combined with the fact that so many rich women have ___ dogs

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But really, Mr. ___ it was the most amazing thing. It all happened in a second.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But, you see, I am not a clever ___ at all, and I’ve no training and I’m getting older — and I am terrified for the future.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Curiously enough, you recall to me one of my former clients in ___ many years ago — he was very like you in appearance.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was a wealthy soap manufacturer. He poisoned his ___ in order to marry his secretary. Yes — the resemblance is very remarkable

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her Pekinese was called ___ Poo. Miss Keble, Mrs. Samuelson’s companion, too, had been blamed for Nanki Poo’s disappearance

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I felt that to take a little money away from these people who really wouldn’t miss it and hadn’t been too scrupulous in acquiring it — well, really, it hardly seemed ___ at all

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I had already learned that you have once been left a ___ dog and had an invalid sister

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I had only to ask my invaluable servant to look for a small flat within a certain radius occupied by an invalid lady who had a Pekinese dog and a ___ who visited her once a week

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I knew it would. The plan worked beautifully every time. In nine cases out of ten the companion was given the letter with the ___ to post

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I think I can help you. But you must promise that there will be no more disappearing …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I think, that you are a kind man, ___ Poirot, and that possibly you might understand. You see, I’ve been so terribly afraid

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: If you ___ the money, there must be no questions asked

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It is your mantle of invisibility that I need. In all these cases nobody for a moment suspected that there was a second ___ involved. Augustus possessed the lion’s skin of invisibility

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was really having ___ to put it into my mind. You see, to most people, one Pekinese is very much like another

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I’ve known so many people like I am — nobody wants you and you live in one room and you can’t have a fire and not very much to eat, and at last you can’t even pay the ___ of your room.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lady ___ said to her husband: “Funny, this tonic tastes quite different. It hasn’t got that bitter taste any more.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Carnaby said simply: “Shan Tung was the ___”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My fees will not be very high. This was a very unimportant matter. Nowadays nearly all my cases are ___ cases.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: No, no — a …nurse. Such a pretty baby it was. Such lovely rosy cheeks

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Of course, I would never have dreamed of doing such a thing! That was just — just an artistic …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Of course, Mr. Poirot, according to the legend, Pekinese were ___ once. And they still have the hearts of lions

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Once or twice the woman posted it herself. Then, of course, the companion had to go to the ___ and take the letter out of the rack. But that was quite easy too

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only by me. But that was inevitable! When I had interviewed Mrs ___ I realized that the kidnapping of Shan Tung was one of a series

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only two things were different — the sum of money demanded — 300 pounds — and the address to which it was to be sent: this time it was to Commander Blackleigh, Harrington Hotel, 76 Clonmel Gardens, …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Poirot leaned forward. He said: “I think, Sir Joseph, that in your ___ you should be extremely careful.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Really, of course, it is ridiculous. How is it possible to mistake Augustus for Nanki ___ or Shan Tung or any of the other Pekes? He’s far more intelligent, but as I say, to most people a Peke is just a Peke

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Red spots appeared suddenly on ___ Carnaby’s white cheeks

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Send it anywhere you damn ___ like

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir Joseph ___ Hercule Poirot in his study

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir Joseph growled: “___ Careless fellows. Make drugs differently different times.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir ___ gave a little shiver as though he felt the invisible presence of Hercule Poirot behind him. And said:

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Tell me, Miss Carnaby, did you ever have to carry out the threat you used in your letters?” Miss Carnaby looked at him in …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That’s a ___ But the money’s the thing. And what do I owe you, Mr. Poirot

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The barking became louder — footsteps came to the door, it was opened. Miss Amy ___ stepped back

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The story followed the same course exactly — the letter — the threats of violence to Nanki …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Then, while you were talking, you cut the lead and your Pekinese, trained by you, slipped off at once and ran back …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There are Institutions, of course, but it’s not easy to get ___ them, unless you have influential friends, and I haven’t

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There are many others situated like me — .. companions — untrained useless women with nothing to look forward to but a deadly fear___. And so — some of us — got together — and I thought of this

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Twenty minutes later Hercule Poirot was climbing the stairs of No.10 ___ Mansions. He paused to regain his breath on the top landing and from behind the door of No.10 a new sound broke the silence — the sharp bark of a dog

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, you see, old ___ are known to be foolishly sentimental about babies. So it seemed quite natural that they should be absorbed over a baby and not notice anything

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, an interesting little case. I wish I felt more attracted to my client — but he has a strong resemblance to a soap manufacturer who poisoned his wife in order to marry a blonde ___ One of my early cases

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, it’s difficult for a ___ to understand, I think.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: You took your employer’s ___ for his usual walk, brought him here and went to the Park with yours. Everybody saw you with a Pekinese dog as usual

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Your psychology is excellent, your organisation is just first class, and you are also a very fine …

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ Carnaby crossed the room, opened the drawer of a bureau and returned with a packet of notes which she handed to Poirot

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ Carnaby said with a faint smile: “And yet I have been found out.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ Hoggin said doubtfully: “I suppose that must be it.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ Poirot nodded his head with a smile. He pressed the bell of No.10

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ Samuelson was taller than Lady Hoggin and her hair was dyed with peroxide

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ raised his eyebrows: “I congratulate you. Your organisation must have been indeed excellent. As a criminal, Mademoiselle, you are quite in the first rank.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ rose, crossed to the writing table, wrote out a cheque for two hundred pounds and handed it to the other man

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Consider it as your ___”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Greta can go ___! I’m not going to risk my neck for any damned platinum blonde!”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Has the man found anything about ___ Tung?”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He didn’t say. Very ___ fellow, Hercule Poirot. But you needn’t worry.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He’s a damned ___ little devil!”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He’s a funny little ___ isn’t he?”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “I shall send it to a ___ organisation.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “That’s all right. You.. . it.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Yes. He got me my money ___”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel:More probably a flat or maisonette. And it will definitely be ___ Kensington Gardens

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: By my orders, you told him that you suffered from tuberculosis. There was a tuberculin in the syringe when Cole ___ him

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Dr. Burton ___ at Hercule Poirot, at his small neat figure in striped trousers, a black jacket and a bow tie

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had also, I think, ___ a substance which had the power of delaying but intensifying the action of the chosen bacillus

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was ___ perhaps, that like him, you were going to “die for Hercule Poirot

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I must get home. Emily has been so ___ And dear Augustus has been missing me terribly, I hear

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was afraid that even now he might choose some other ___ but I respected your courage and I had to let you take the risk

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was thinking,” she said, “of a ___ dream I had. I arranged the whole world so beautifully! No wars, no poverty, no diseases, no cruelty

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I woke up. And I knew it was ___ My mouth was quite dry. I was thirsty. But I couldn’t drink, Mr. Poirot

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It is harmless to a healthy person, but stimulates any old tubercular lesion into …

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It is possible, I think, that he has committed a long ___ of murders

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lonely women, in their ___ and fervour, made wills leaving their money to the Cult

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Oh, that’s all right,” said Miss Carnaby brightly. “I don’t mind taking risks. I’m only ___ bulls in fields and things like that

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: On one of ___ chairs sat Hercule Poirot — in the middle of the chair. Opposite him, in another chair, sat Dr. Burton

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: One by one, these women died. Without being too ___ I will try to explain. It is possible to make intensified cultures of certain bacteria

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Since you were a healthy person it would not have harmed you, that is why I asked you to tell him you had a tubercular …

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That was the secret of his popularity — a dominating personality, the power of creating mass hysteria and the reactions produced by this drug. But he had a second aim in …

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The bacillus Coli Communis, for instance, is the cause of ulcerative colitis. Typhoid bacilli can be ___ into the system. So can Pneumococcus

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The flat of Hercule Poirot was furnished in a modern ___ Its armchairs were square and gleamed with chromium

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You realize the cleverness of the man? These deaths would occur in different parts of the country, with different doctors ___ them and without any risk of arousing suspicion

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:…of evidence,” he said. “We’ve got his laboratory and his cultures and the whole equipment

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Admiral Chandler picked up Hugh’s ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And then when this — this …appeared, it settled things definitely, I thought

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Applied externally it causes a rash, this would soon lead to cuts in shaving and thus the drug would be continually entering the system

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Atropine is prescribed freely for eye treatment and could be ___ without arousing suspicion

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Beautiful morning, isn’t it? I think I’ll go out in the woods and try to get a …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Colonel Frobisher, you ___ for many years in India

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Do you know when I suspected? When Admiral Chandler objected to his son seeing a doctor. It was ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Don’t you realize that if the door hadn’t been locked I would have cut Diana’s ___ — Diana’s! — with that knife

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Exactly. Well, the active principle of the datura is very ___ to the alkaloid atropine

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: For one thing — I dream. And when I dream I am ___ Last night, for instance, I wasn’t a man any longer

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Frobisher stammered, ___ with excitement

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He sat up and saw the knife which he still held in his …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was in his dressing-gown and slippers. In his right hand was a sharp ___ knife

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hercule Poirot and Hugh Chandler sat on a bench in the rose garden. The young man turned a ___ tortured face towards his companion

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Here and there on it were bright red ___ of blood

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh Chandler lay there …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh ___ Poirot turned to Colonel Frobisher

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh and Diana had ___ the room

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I am happy to tell you that you are entirely and completely …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I didn’t know. I couldn’t be sure... Caroline never said anything that led me to think Hugh was my …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I realize nothing of the kind. You would not have killed ___ Maberly

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I tell you you didn’t kill the sheep — or the ___ — or the cat

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I thought of a possible motive, the eternal triangle: two men and a ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was a bull — a mad bull — racing about in sunlight — tasting dust and blood in my mouth — dust and blood. I had …— men tried to shoot me — someone put a bowl of water for me and I couldn’t drink. I couldn’t drink

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In order that you ___ do what you were just about to do when I stopped you

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the drawing-room Hugh Chandler had taken his ___ off the wall and was going to load it when Hercule Poirot’s hand fell on his shoulder

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It ends by driving a person …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was at that moment that Admiral Chandler and Colonel Frobisher ___ Behind them came Diana

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It would produce ___ symptoms — dryness of the mouth and throat, difficulty in swallowing, hallucinations — all the symptoms, in fact, which Mr. Chandler has experienced

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’m not actually mad yet — but I’m getting worse. Diana doesn’t know. She has only seen me when I am …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’ve heard of such cases often enough. Datura …*.

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: No, you didn’t kill the cat. You didn’t kill the ___ You didn’t kill the sheep

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Not human, thank God. A …! I found it downstairs in the hall. Throat cut. Afterwards he must have come here

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Someone who wanted to prove that you were ___ On each occasion you were given a strong sleeping-pill and a blood-stained knife was put into your hand. It was someone else whose bloody hands were washed in your basin

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Take your hands off me! Don’t ___ There’s going to be an accident, I tell you. It’s the only way out

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That is what I have been studying ever since I ___ here. I have been looking for a motive for murder

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The alkaloid could be extracted from it and then introduced into, say — a shaving …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The lust for blood was Admiral Chandler’s, not Hugh’s. But it was Hugh who was to pay the …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two men raised the unconscious ___ Diana caught her breath as they passed her

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two men, the Englishman and the Belgian, watched the last of the Chandlers cross the park and ___ up into the woods

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then he decided to turn his hatred against the boy who bore his name but who was not his …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There could be treatment which would save his son — but no, a doctor must not be allowed to see Hugh Chandler — in case a doctor should discover that Hugh was ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There was a sound of bolts being drawn. The door opened and Diana …there. Her face was dead white

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They told him — told him unwillingly — haltingly. Hugh’s face was ___ his voice was steady

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: What’s happened? There was someone — trying to ___ — I heard them — scratching on the panels

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You see, Diana is a fighter. She won’t ___ She — she will go on believing that I’m sane

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Your Indian stories put the idea of datura poisoning into his head. Hugh should be slowly driven …

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Your shaving cream was mixed with a big ___ of atropine. I took some shaving cream from the tube and had it tested at the chemist’s

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You’re sane enough. There’s no madness in our ___

Nothing suspicious there. Miss Everitte died of ulcerative colitis. Mrs. Lloyd died ___ pneumonia

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: . He said that he was a Dane, but in the Torres Straits he was (to know) as German Harry. His history went back a long way. Thirty years before, he had been an able seaman on a sailing vessel that was wrecked in those treacherous waters

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A strange man and a strange story. I learned more about him as we (to sail) across the desolate sea. The Torres Straits are peppered with islands and at night we anchored on the lee of one or other of them

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And then I foresaw the end. One day a pearl fisher would land on the island and German Harry would not be (to wait) for him, silent and suspicious, at the water’s edge

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As I looked at the wrinkled, mean old face I wondered what was the story of those three dreadful years that had (to make) him welcome this long imprisonment. I sought to see behind those pale blue eyes of his what secrets they were that he would carry to his grave

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But I do not believe he would (to find) it

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But he was moved when my skipper told him that an old man of his own age whom he had (to know) for a long time was dead

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: During the last four months of the year there (may) be two or three pearlers about and not infrequently after the day’s work they will row in and spend an evening with him

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: During the war no pearlers came out and for years he never saw a living soul. For all he knew, a terrible epidemic had killed off the entire human race and he was the only man alive. He was (to ask) later what he thought

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: German Harry would have (to see) to it that none should discover the treasure, and the pearls would rot in their hiding place

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He accepted our gifts as a right, without thanks, and (to grumble) a little because something or other he needed had not been brought. He was silent and morose

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He looked at me with suspicion. He was sombrely curious to know what I was (to do) in these seas

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He looked upon it with a jealous, proprietary right; he called it “my health resort” and he (to fear) that the coconuts that covered it would tempt some enterprising trader

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He never (to say) a word. Drunk or sober he is equally silent on that subject and if they insist grows angry and leaves them

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He ran out of matches and (to be) afraid that his fire would go out, so he only slept in snatches, putting wood on his fire from time to time all day and all night. He came to the end of his provisions and lived on chickens, fish and coconuts. Sometimes he got a turtle

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He said that during those three years he (to have) seen such terrible things that he had a horror of his fellow-men and wished never to live with them again. He would say no more

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He seemed to be occupied with nothing but his food, his dogs and his chickens. If what they tell us in books were true his long communion with nature and the sea should have (to teach) him many subtle secrets. It hadn’t. He was a savage. He was nothing but a narrow, ignorant and cantankerous sea-faring man

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He used words with difficulty, (to talk) to himself rather than to us, and it was a little uncanny to hear him mumble away as though we were not there

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was absolutely (to fix) in his determination to stay, entirely by himself, in that lonely place. Though now and then opportunity had been given him to leave he had never taken it

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was not interested in the news we had to give him, for the outside world was no concern of his: the only thing he cared about (to be) his island

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He went straight back to the Sanctuary. So I understood that I could (to rely) on you and that you would not let me down — but I was afraid because it increased the danger for you

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He would go up to the hut and there, (to lie) on the bed, unrecognisable, he would see all that remained of what had once been a man

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His sunburn made his blue eyes look very pale and they were (to surround) by wrinkles as though for long years he had spent interminable hours scanning the vacant sea. He wore dungarees and a singlet, patched, but neat and clean

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I did understand. There was only one person sitting near enough to overhear anything we said and as soon as he (to leave) the restaurant I followed him

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I don’t know now if it was an accident or if he (to have) actually followed me. I had to do the best I could in this situation and hope that you would understand

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I forget if it was four or five days before we sighted the hermit’s little kingdom. We had (to be) driven by bad weather to take shelter and had spent a couple of days at an island on the way

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I pricked up my ears. It appeared that the hermit had lived by himself on this remote and tiny island for thirty years, and when opportunity (to occur) provisions were sent to him by kindly souls

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I saw the little hut, sheltered by trees, in which German Harry lived, and as we approached he (to saunter) down slowly to the water’s edge

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In the big bedroom with the heavy oak furniture Hercule Poirot sat and waited. There was nothing to do but wait. All his arrangements were (to make)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was his practice at the Festivals to inject into his followers a small but sufficient dose of Cannabis Indica — which is also known by the name of Hashish. It gives the sensation of great and pleasurable enjoyment. It bound his devotees to him. These were the Spiritual Joys that he (to promise) them

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was towards early morning that he heard the sound of footsteps outside. Poirot drew back the bolt and opened the door. There (to be) two men outside — the Admiral, stern-faced and grim, and Colonel Frobisher, pale and trembling

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mademoiselle, this Dr. Andersen devised a scheme of exploitation and murder — scientific murder. Most of his life has been (to spend) in bacteriological research. Under a different name he has a chemical laboratory in Sheffield. There he makes cultures of various bacilli

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Of late new pearling grounds have (to be) discovered near Trebucket and in the autumn pearlers, visiting it now and then, have given German Harry various necessities so that he has been able to make himself sufficiently comfortable

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Perhaps then he would hunt high and low for the great mass of pearls that has (to haunt) the fancy of so many adventurers

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Sixteen men had landed on the island, but when at last a schooner, (to drive) from her course by stress of weather, put in for shelter, no more than five were left

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The house to which he presently led us (to consist) of a single room with a roof of corrugated iron

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then the pearl fisher would (to go) back into his dinghy and the island once more would be deserted of man

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There (to be) no opening in the reef and the lugger had to anchor a mile from the shore. We got into a dinghy with the provisions. It was a stiff pull and even within the reef the sea was choppy

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There is abundant pearl shell on the reef that (to surround) his island and this he used to collect and sell to the pearlers for tobacco, and sometimes he found a good pearl for which he got a considerable sum. It is believed that he has, hidden away somewhere, a collection of magnificent pearls

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There was a bed in it, some rough stools which he himself (to have) made, a table, and his various household utensils. Under a tree in front of it was a table and a bench. Behind was an enclosed run for his chickens

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They bring him papers, bags of flour and rice, and canned meats. He has a whale boat and (to use) to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They try to make him drunk and then they ask him what (to happen) during those three years after the two boat-loads came to the island

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Trebucket is a low island, perhaps a mile round, (to cover) with coconuts, just raised above the level of the sea and surrounded by a reef so that it can be approached only on one side

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Two boats managed to get away and eventually (to hit) upon the desert island of Trebucket. This is well out of the line of traffic and it was three years before any ship sighted the castaways

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: We (to shout) a greeting, but he did not answer. He was a man of over seventy, very bald, hatchet

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When the storm abated the skipper (to take) four of these on board and eventually landed them at Sydney. German Harry refused to go with them

Sir Joseph said, his voice almost inaudible: “You needn’t worry. I shall be careful all ___”