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After you have read and considered the text above, it is a good idea to practise in
grammar again.
Task: supply the right active and passive forms and tenses of the verbs in
brackets.
My mother arrived at the port of Harwich some time in February and
immediately (apprehend) …… by the British authorities for having filled up her
landing form with undue accuracy. To the question: Where born? she (answer)
…… St. Petersburg. To the question: Where educated? she (reply) ……
Leningrad. The immigration authorities ( convince) …… that she ( make) ……
light of the questionnaire, and I feel bound to add with a certain pride that it was
only my presence that (save) …… her from further unpleasantness. This
tendency to answer official questions too literally (seem) …… to run in the
family, perhaps owing to the many frontiers we all (cross) …… since such
encumbrances were invented.
Once she (release) …… by the pernickety British authorities, my mother
traveled to London by train through a thick industrial murk, which (culminate)
…… in a swirling yellow fog, impenetrable, choking and claustrophobic. She
records that she ( never see or smell) …… such filth in her life. Before the
names of the stations entirely ( obliterate) …… towards the end of the journey,
the impression of Kafkaesque horror (increase) …… by the fact that every
station (seem) …… to be called Bovril. It is necessary to explain to the
uninitiated that Bovril was and ( be) ….. a most excellent beef-tea. Being the
fruit of private enterprise in a highly competitive capitalist society, it ( have)
…… bright and brilliant advertisements.
Task: fill in the missing words in the following sentences.
SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS TO ALZHEIMER’S
AD is known as an especially cruel ……. It not only …… a person’s mind - it
robs them of their memories. A mother may not …… her only son’s name. A
husband may not …… his wife after 30 years together. Longtime friends are
…… . An estimated 4 million American men and women suffer with AD. As the
population of older Americans …… so will the number of people at risk for
…… disease.
The ray of hope is that over the past several …… AD has emerged from the
shadows as a …… health problem. AD is far more than misplacing the phone
book or forgetting the …… name. It is the disease that …… the brain and results
…… impaired memory, thinking and …….
The disease ……first described by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and has
become the fourth leading …… of death among adults in the U.S. between the
ages of 75 and 84 (after heart disease, cancer and stroke). It eventually leaves a
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