Task 3. Decide which answer (A,B,C,D) best fits each space.
Shirley Yeats is certainly a very brave woman! At the age of sixty-seven, she decided 1
on a cruise round the coast of Malaysia. Everything was fine until one day. As she 2back to her cabin, she saw smoke coming out of another cabin. Immediately, she phoned the captain from her cabin and 3him about the fire. Then she went up on deck to see what she 4to help. The fire spread very quickly and soon it 5completely out of control. The captain decided 6all the passengers off the ship as quickly as possible.
Many of the passengers 7, but Shirley remained calm. She helped the other passengers to get into the lifeboats and even 8first aid to other passengers.
Eventually, all 1,000 passengers were in the lifeboats and not one passenger died in the fire. Shirley was one of the last people 9the boat. Later, she told journalists "I was very frightened but I always knew what I had to do. I 10all my years as a teacher helped - all that time telling people what to do!"
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A to go
В will go
С go
D is going to
2
A was going
В has been going
С was gone
D goes
3
A will tell
В was telling
С told
D has told
4
A could to do
В could do
С can do
D could be do
5
A is
В be
С has been
D was
6
A to get
В get
С getting
D will get
7
A being terrified
В has been terrified
С was terrified
D were terrified
8
A gives
В gave
С is giving
D has given
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A being left
В leave
С to leave
D left
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A am thinking
В thinks
С think
D had thought
