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14 Reconstruct the texts using the prompts in brackets.
I wished she (Catherine Barkley) (to be) here now. I wished I (to be) in
Milan with her. I (to be) very pleased if I (can) persuade her to come down for two
or three days and stay with me. I would like to eat at the Cova and then walk
down the Via Manzoni in the hot evening and cross over and turn off along the
canal and go to the hotel with Catherine Barkley. We (to go) in the front door and
the porter (to take off) his cap and I (to stand) by the elevator and then we (to
get) in the elevator and it (to go) up very slowly clicking at all the floors and then
our floor. And the boy (to open) the door and (to stand) there and she (to step
out) and I (to step out) and we (to walk) down the hall and I (to put) the key in
the door and (to open) it and (to go) in and then (to take down) the telephone
and (to ask) them to send a bottle of Capri bianco in a silver bucket full of ice and
you (to hear) the ice against the pail coming down the corridor and the boy (to
knock) and I (to say) leave it outside the door please.
/after "Farewell to Arms" by E. Hemingway/
Francesca felt very odd. If anyone (to ask) her to guess how she (to feel) in
such a situation, she (to say) she (to feel) confused, or wretched, or frightened. In
fact she felt none of these things. Her prime emotion was a kind of shock that
Peter Barbour could be involved. Otherwise, she felt oddly calm as if she (to be
suspended) from real life altogether. ... she (to be) less blind she (to see) what
was going on. She wished she not (to be) so determined to believe that everything
was all right. ... she (to know) then what Bard's request meant she not (to be) in
such a fix now. Now that it was reality she had to decide. If she (to do) what Bard
had asked, then she (to have) to leave him.
/from "The Dilemma" by Penny Vincenzi/
15 Express people's regrets using wish.
1 “If people think I am happy about my weight, they are wrong. I hate to see
how I look to others. I glance in the mirror and say, "Oh, my God!"
Luciano Pavorotti
2 When she was a freshman at Southern Virginia College in Buena Vista, our
daughter Claudine fell in love with Joe. We became concerned that her
classwork might begin to suffer.
Claudine's parents
3 It wasn’t always easy having your grandfather for a roommate – especially
when I first met Debby. "You bring a girl to your apartment without marrying
her? - I demanded. "You're lucky I don't call the police." –
Max Apple"
4 My wife and I were happy for twenty years," says Rodney Dangerfield,
"Then we met."
5 The parents of Jehudi Menuhin, one of the most famous violin prodigies of the
20th century, were too poor to afford a babysitter, so they took their son to
concerts with them and let him share their delight in music. When he was four,
Jehudi was given a toy violin, but he was frustrated that it didn’t play in tune. His
parents then bought him a real one - and the rest is history.
6 In the morning I got a speeding ticket. At work my computer broke down. I
came to the nearest gas station, only to find all eight pumps taken.
7 A seventh-grader from Brooklyn, N.Y., stole an unattended handbag from a
