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Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1—10. Выберите правильный ответ для пропуска 2.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were 1 ______ to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the 2 _____ people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't 3 _____ such nonsense.

Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which 4 _____ as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.

The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone 5 ______ out about the Potters. Mrs Potter was Mrs Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years; in fact, Mrs Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her 6 ______ husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbours would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good 7 ______ for keeping the Potters away; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that.

When Mr and Mrs Dursley woke 8 ______ on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. Mr Dursley hummed as he picked 9 ______ his most boring tie for work, and Mrs Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his 10 _____ chair.

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