Задание

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1—10. Эти номера соот- ветствуют заданиям 1—10 в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Выберите подходящий вариант ответа для пропуска 6.

Cathedral

This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to (1) … the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife from his in-law’s. Arrangements were (2) …. He would come by train, a five-hour (3) …, and my wife would meet him at the station. She hadn’t seen him since she worked for him one summer in Seattle ten years ago. But she and the blind man had (4) … in touch. They made tapes and mailed them back and forth. I wasn’t enthusiastic about his (5) …. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led (6) … seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I (7) … forward to.

That summer in Seattle she had needed a (8) …. She didn’t have any money. The man she was going to marry (9) … the end of the summer was in officers’ training school. He didn’t bring (10) … any money, either. But she was in love with the guy, and he was in love with her, etc. She’d seen something in the paper: HELP WANTED—Reading to Blind Man, and a telephone number. She phoned and went over, was hired on the spot. She worked with this blind man all summer. They’d become good friends, my wife and the blind man.

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