МГИМО / ДВИ по Английскому языку / Задание 2 / Выберите наиболее подходящее слово
МГИМО ДВИ / Заполните пропуски недостающим словом (артиклем, предлогом, местоимением, именем существительным, прилагательным, глаголом и т.д.), являющимся единственно правильным по смыслу и соответствующим грамматическим нормам английского языка
Fill in the gaps with the missing word (noun, adjective, verb, article, preposition, pronoun, etc.), which is the only correct one in meaning and corresponds to the grammatical norms of the English language.
The Text (30 gaps)
The storm had raged all night, leaving the village in a state of uneasy ____ (1). Windows were shattered, roofs torn, and trees uprooted, yet the most haunting silence prevailed at dawn, as though nature itself were catching its breath before the next inevitable ____ (2).
Elena stood at the threshold of her cottage, staring out at the devastation with a mixture of awe and ____ (3). Though her home had been spared the worst, she could not rid herself of the feeling that something essential had been irrevocably ____ (4). The air carried the acrid smell of salt and splintered wood, and each gust of wind seemed to whisper a warning she could neither ignore nor fully ____ (5).
Her neighbors moved slowly through the wreckage, their faces etched with the fatigue of those who had confronted forces far beyond their ____ (6). They spoke little, exchanging only brief glances that conveyed both solidarity and unspoken fear. One man muttered that such storms were no longer anomalies but had become a grim ____ (7), a reminder of how fragile their existence truly was.
Seeking solace, Elena wandered towards the cliffs, where the sea still churned with unspent fury. The horizon was obscured by mist, and the waves crashed against the rocks with a violence that seemed almost ____ (8). She closed her eyes, trying to steady her racing thoughts, but fragments of memory intruded, carrying her back to the night before when she had heard a voice — faint, insistent, and impossibly familiar — calling her name from somewhere deep ____ (9) the tempest.
At first she dismissed it as imagination, the brain’s desperate attempt to impose meaning upon chaos. Yet the more she recalled, the more convinced she became that it had not been mere ____ (10). Someone, or something, had been trying to reach her, and that realization filled her with a peculiar blend of dread and ____ (11).
Determined to make sense of it, she descended the narrow path leading to the beach. The sand was littered with fragments of broken boats, shattered nets, and belongings that must once have been treasured. Among them, half-buried in the shingle, she discovered a small wooden box, its surface scarred but still ____ (12). With trembling fingers, she pried it open and found inside a bundle of letters tied carefully with a faded ribbon, their ink blurred by years yet strangely ____ (13).
Elena unfolded the first letter, her eyes scanning the words that leapt out at her with uncanny clarity: “If you are reading this, then the sea has returned what it once ____ (14). You must know that the truth has been concealed not for malice, but for necessity.” Her breath caught as she recognized the handwriting — it was her father’s, who had vanished when she was still a child, presumed lost to the waves.
The revelation struck her like a physical blow. She staggered, her mind reeling as questions rose faster than she could ____ (15) them. Why had the letters been hidden? What truth could demand such secrecy? And why now, after so many years, had the sea chosen to ____ (16) them back?
She read on, though every word seemed to drag her deeper into a labyrinth of half-formed recollections and unvoiced suspicions. “There are debts,” the letter continued, “that bind us across generations. Some are material, others carved in silence. To ignore them is to invite ____ (17). But to confront them requires a courage few can summon.”
Elena’s hands shook as she placed the letter back into the box. She knew instinctively that what she had uncovered was only the ____ (18), and that the remaining pages would lead her further into a past deliberately shrouded. She also knew that she could not, however much she longed to, simply ____ (19) the discovery and return to the fragile routine of village life.
Instead, she walked slowly along the shore, the box clutched tightly against her chest. Each step felt both heavy and purposeful, as though the ground itself compelled her towards a destiny she had tried, for years, to ____ (20). The sea roared behind her like a relentless judge, refusing to let her retreat into ____ (21).
By the time she reached the pier, she had made her decision. The letters would not remain confined to secrecy; they demanded to be read, to be spoken, perhaps even to be shouted against the indifference of the world. The thought both terrified and ____ (22) her.
She sat upon the weathered planks, opening another letter, this one marked with a date she barely recognized. The handwriting faltered, as though her father’s hand had trembled. “Those who covet power,” it read, “will go to great lengths to ensure their legacies. But remember, Elena: nothing built on silence can ever ____ (23).”
The words rang in her ears with the clarity of prophecy. For the first time, she understood that her life had been lived not merely in the shadow of loss, but in the web of choices made long before her birth. And now, those choices had come to claim their ____ (24).
The tide crept higher, soaking the edge of the pier, but Elena did not move. She felt the weight of centuries pressing upon her, demanding judgment, demanding ____ (25). Whether she liked it or not, she had become the custodian of a truth too long deferred.
Night fell, and lanterns flickered in the distance, guiding fishermen back to shore. Elena rose slowly, her resolve firming with every heartbeat. She knew that once she revealed what she had found, the village would never be the same. Reputations would collapse, certainties would crumble, and illusions would ____ (26). Yet she also knew that to withhold the truth would be to perpetuate the very chains her father had sought to break.
As she took the first steps back towards the cottages, the box heavy in her hands, she realized that she was no longer merely a daughter or a villager, but something greater — a witness, a bearer of memory, a reluctant but undeniable ____ (27). The road ahead would be treacherous, fraught with suspicion and resistance, but she could not shrink from it any longer.
For the storm had not destroyed her world; it had revealed it. And in that revelation lay both the terror of knowledge and the fragile hope of ____ (28). With every breath, Elena felt the gravity of choice closing in: to conceal or to confront, to silence or to ____ (29), to deny or to embrace.
And though the night was thick with uncertainty, she whispered to herself the only vow she could truly keep: that she would not turn away, that she would ____ (30) the truth, however unbearable it might be. ★
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