Задание

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1–10. Выберите правильный ответ для пропуска 5.

The Blue Cross

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green 1 ____ ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, 2 ____ whom the man we 3 ____ follow was by no means conspicuous - nor wished to be. There was nothing 4 ____ about him, 5 ____ a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes and the official gravity of his face. His clothes 6 ____ a slight, pale grey jacket, a white waistcoat, and a silver straw hat with a grey-blue ribbon. His lean face was dark by contrast, and 7____ in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff. He was smoking a cigarette 8 ____ the seriousness of an idler. There was nothing about him to 9 ____ the fact that the grey jacket covered a loaded revolver, that the white waistcoat covered a police card, or that the straw hat covered one of 10 ____ intellects in Europe.

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