Задание

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1—10. Выберите правильный ответ для пропуска 7.

TRIPLET'S SPECIAL LANGUAGE

The parents of identical triplets Ben, Tom and Alex were looking forward to the day their babies started (1) _____. But when the time came, the proud parents were not able to (2) _____ what the boys were saying. The boys had (3) _____ a language of their own, and only they could understand it. They didn't seem to want to speak English. Their doctor was afraid that there was some (4) _____ of problem, but experts discovered that they had advanced communication skills (5) _____ probably developed before they were born. The experts were not worried at all (6) _____ were pleased that the boys were building up their own vocabulary.

At the (7) _____ of six months they could communicate with each other much better than other children. (8) _____ they were playing together, they used their own sounds to talk to each other and kept each other happy for hours. Now they are (9) _____ school, they have started to pick up English. They will (10) _____ soon forget the language they made up together.

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