Fire Crews Hunt Escaped Hamster

 

Eight firefighters have been called in to help find an escaped hamster. Two crews used a chocolate-covered camera and a vacuum cleaner A ____ , called Fudgie, at the home of a six-year-old girl in Dunbar, Scotland.

The girl’s mother said: ‘We came down for breakfast and discovered Fudgie had opened the top lid of her cage and had made her way into the kitchen and we think she has gone В ____ .'

The fire crews spent five hours trying to recover the pet after it ran down a hole in the kitchen floor. But, the hamster still refused С ____ .

In the search for Fudgie, the firefighters took the family cooker and gas pipes apart. They also dropped a mini-camera coated with chocolate under the floorboards. They then hoped to take out the hamster using a vacuum cleaner. Despite all their efforts, they failed to find Fudgie.

In the end, the firefighters put another camera down the hole D ____ , connected to the screen of the family home computer, to see if Fudgie appeared. Besides, the girl and her parents regularly dropped food E ____ .

At last, after eight days the hamster returned to her cage safe and sound. She crawled from the hole in the kitchen floor early in the morning. It was the girl’s father who first found Fudgie F ____ .

The girl said that day it was like Christmas morning for her. Her parents added that they too felt extremely happy when Fudgie had finally returned.

 

1. through a small hole in the floor

2. through the hole for the hamster

3. and locked the runaway hamster

4. to come out of the hole

5. to look after the pet

6. to try and locate the missing hamster

7. and left it under the floorboards

 

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Задание 12 № 70

The first time Sally travelled by train was when she

 

1) had to move to her aunt Alice.

2) had a summer vacation at school.

3) went to Pittsburgh for the first time in her life.

4) visited her aunt Alice together with aunt Winnie.

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13

Задание 13 № 71

Aunt Alice made her living by

 

1) working as a cook.

2) keeping a boarding house.

3) decorating houses.

4) working as a teacher at college.

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Задание 14 № 72

Sally was waiting for her first train trip so impatiently that she

 

1) packed her things long before the trip.

2) lost her appetite a week before the trip.

3) asked her Mother many questions about train trips.

4) couldn’t sleep the night before the trip.

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15

Задание 15 № 73

Sally didn’t like the idea of riding backwards because

 

1) it could make her sick.

2) she could miss her station.

3) she could miss .the conductor.

4) she wanted to see where she was going.

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16

Задание 16 № 74

The trip to Pittsburgh by train seemed so exotic to Sally because

 

1) she had never travelled so far from her native town.

2) travelling by train was very different from a car ride.

3) she had never travelled in comfort.

4) she had never travelled without her parents.

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17

Задание 17 № 75

Sally thought that at lunchtime they would have

 

1) meat sandwiches.

2) bread and butter with coffee.

3) fried chicken, eggs and vegetables.

4) tea with chocolate cakes.

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18

Задание 18 № 76

Aunt Alice was waiting for Sally and aunt Winnie

 

1) at home.

2) in her car.

3) on the platform.

4) at the bus stop.

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19

Задание 19 № 2433

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