МГИМО / ДВИ по Английскому языку / Тест 6 / Задание 2
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 first time I encountered Dr. Selwyn, I had the impression that he belonged to (1)__ world entirely different from my own. His voice carried not merely authority but a kind of gravity that seemed to weigh (2)__ each word he uttered. Those who met him often left feeling simultaneously enlightened and (3)__ unsettled, as though they had been forced to confront truths they had long contrived to avoid.
When I arrived at his house on the outskirts of the city, he received me with a courtesy so measured that it bordered (4)__ ritual. He offered tea, though he himself drank none, preferring instead to pace slowly before the fire. At length he asked whether I had ever considered what it might mean (5)__ live not for achievement but for continuity. The question, posed so quietly, had the effect of an indictment, and I found myself struggling (6)__ words.
The room in which we sat was lined with shelves of books, (7)__ arranged not by subject but by the sequence in which he had read them. “Knowledge,” he remarked, “is not to be stored passively. One must learn to dip (8)__ one’s intellectual savings when the hour demands it, otherwise all study degenerates into vanity.” His eyes, sharp and unyielding, seemed to demand that I confess (9)__ own failures of courage.
What struck me most, however, was not his intellect but his restraint. He possessed the rare ability to listen without interruption, allowing silence (10)__ settle until the weight of it compelled one to speak honestly. More than once I wished I could invent some clever reply, but the truth, raw and uncomfortable, invariably broke forth (11)__ my lips.
That evening, he led me into a small gallery where portraits of his ancestors gazed down with an air of judgement. “They adhered (12)__ principles we scarcely remember,” he said. “But without principles, there can be no identity—only drift.” I remarked that such constancy must be a daunting (13)__ in the modern world, where compromise masquerades as wisdom. He inclined his head, neither agreeing (14)__ contradicting, but leaving me suspended in my own thought.
Later, as rain hammered the windows, I was shown to a chamber where sleep proved elusive. At midnight I heard footsteps pacing in the hall, followed by a sudden burst (15)__ laughter that froze my blood. Whether dream or reality, I cannot tell; but by morning, I was (16)__ of any desire to question the integrity of my host’s warnings.
In the days that followed, I accompanied him through the city. He walked with remarkable slowness, yet with purpose, pausing often to exchange words with strangers. Errands that I had once considered trivial—purchasing bread, inquiring after news—became, in his presence, occasions for a kind of moral inventory. I realised that while most of us run (17)__ our errands mechanically, he infused each gesture with deliberation, as though reminding himself (18)__ the dignity of the ordinary.
On the final morning, he confided that many of his former pupils had sought advancement at any cost, but in so doing they had deprived (19)__ of the very integrity that should have anchored them. “To land (20)__ new job is nothing,” he said, “if you have forgotten who you are in the process.”
When I prepared to depart, he accompanied me to the gate. The wind tugged at his coat, yet he remained perfectly still. “You will be tempted,” he said, “to see (21)__ intruders not merely outside but within—impatience, vanity, despair. Learn to see them off firmly, without anger but without compromise.”
I left him standing there, a solitary figure against the grey sky. As my carriage descended the hill, I glanced back once, only to find him watching with an expression I could scarcely interpret—half benediction, half warning. Even now, months later, I feel that encounter pressing (22)__ me with a weight undiminished by time.
What remains is not the memory of his words alone, but the example of a life that refused to bend to expedience. In a world where we are so often led (23)__ the nose by fashion and fear, he embodied an integrity that seemed almost otherworldly. I sometimes wonder whether I shall be able to adhere (24)__ the lessons I glimpsed in his company, or whether the city will erode them slowly, imperceptibly, until they vanish (25)__ mist.
Yet whenever doubt assails me, I recall his library: the shelves worn smooth by use, the pages annotated with urgency, the silence that compelled truth. And I remember, too, the laughter in the night, whether phantom or warning, reminding me that no one escapes the task of self-scrutiny. To betray that task would be to (26)__ myself of the very axis of my being.
Thus, I hold (27)__ those principles not as relics but as instruments: to measure, to correct, to endure. And though I cannot claim to embody them fully, I know that my life has been irrevocably altered, drawn (28)__ a narrative far larger than my own.
For some journeys never end; they echo, reverberate, and remake us. What Dr. Selwyn imparted was less instruction than inheritance, demanding vigilance but promising renewal. And so, whenever I falter, I remind myself that the greatest wealth lies not in possessions, nor in applause, but in fidelity—to truths that survive when all else has been (29)__.
In this, I find solace: that even in the clamour of the city, even in the solitude of doubt, I am accompanied still by the memory of one who showed that to live with integrity is not merely difficult but indispensable, and that our truest duty is always to pass (30)__ what has been entrusted to us, unspoiled, to those who come after. ★
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