Задание

Прочитай приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуй слова, написанные заглавными буквами в скобках, обозначенных номерами 20–28, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполни пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию 20–28.

You see, in my school days the teachers 20.___________(HAVE) big classes, like thirty or forty students per class. Most teachers were strict with the students.

When we didn't understand a topic, they didn't have time to explain it to 21.___________ (WE) personally, so we were left behind. Some of 22.___________ (THAT) teachers didn't care or lacked teaching skills.

I am one of these 23.___________(PERSON) that was left behind. I never learned cursive writing in all of my ten years of school because of that reason.

After graduating from the 24.___________(EIGHT) grade to a very good high school in Ottawa, I wanted to complete grades nine and ten. However, the school didn't quite accept my writing. This was the 25.___________(EMBARRASSING) feeling in my life.

At that point, it was too late for me to learn cursive writing. All I could do was to take a pencil on a piece of paper and draw a line up and down. I stretched it long to make it look like a word. I didn't know how to form letters or join them together. Nobody could read what I wrote. That is why I wrote in big block letters and because of this I 26.___________(LOSE) a lot of marks, so I 27.___________ (DISCOURAGE) and quit school.

Over the years, I learned something about the construction business and started my own construction company. Though I am very successful with my business, I wish I had got a 28.___________(GOOD) education in my youth.

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