МГИМО / ДВИ по Английскому языку / Тест 3 / 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 city at dawn seemed less a place of commerce and politics than a vast, breathing organism, stirring reluctantly to ____ (1) after a night of uneasy quiet. From the balcony of his apartment, Marcus watched the streets below, where vendors were already calling their wares in voices hoarse but ____ (2). The smell of bread, strong coffee, and damp stone drifted upward, mingling in an oddly comforting ____ (3).
Yet Marcus could not shake the feeling that beneath this surface bustle lay something profoundly amiss. For weeks, he had sensed an undercurrent of tension, as though the populace were collectively holding its breath, waiting for some event they could neither name nor ____ (4). Even the newspapers, normally quick to exaggerate every minor scandal, now wrote with an unusual restraint, choosing their words with a caution bordering ____ (5) fear.
On his desk lay a letter, sealed with a crimson wax emblem he recognized instantly. The handwriting inside was elegant, deliberate, and unmistakably familiar: “Marcus, you must not delay. The archives contain what you seek, but you must approach them with discretion. Truth is never merely uncovered; it is always ____ (6).”
The words unsettled him, not only because of their cryptic tone but also because they echoed the very doubts that had gnawed at him for months. He had devoted his life to the study of history, convinced that by sifting patiently through records and testimonies he might one day piece together a narrative both honest and ____ (7). Yet the more he uncovered, the clearer it became that history was less a window onto the past than a mirror reflecting the ambitions of those who dared to ____ (8) it.
Later that morning, he walked across the square, its cobblestones slick with dew. Children darted between fountains, their laughter strangely discordant against the heavy ____ (9) of the air. At the steps of the archive building, a guard nodded curtly, permitting him to pass without question — a courtesy extended not to Marcus personally, but to the reputation of his late father, whose name still carried ____ (10) weight in scholarly circles.
Inside, the great hall was cloaked in dust and shadow. Rows upon rows of shelves stretched upward, the volumes so numerous that they seemed almost to defy ____ (11). Marcus moved slowly, running his hand over the bindings, until he found the section marked by the same emblem that had sealed the letter. He hesitated; part of him longed to turn back, to abandon the pursuit and return to the relative safety of ignorance. Yet another part — the part that refused to live half a life — urged him to press ____ (12).
The documents he discovered were fragile, their ink faded but still legible. They spoke of treaties never ratified, of debts disguised as gifts, of promises made in secret chambers long since ____ (13) to dust. Each page contradicted the official histories he had once taught so earnestly, and with each revelation Marcus felt the ground of certainty ____ (14) beneath him.
It was not merely a matter of facts being misrecorded, but of entire truths being systematically erased, replaced by narratives more palatable to those in ____ (15). To accept these records as authentic was to admit that much of what passed for knowledge was little more than sanctioned illusion, a kind of collective ____ (16).
As he copied notes feverishly, he became aware of footsteps echoing in the corridor. He froze, his pulse quickening. No one else had reason to be there at this hour. The footsteps paused, then continued, drawing steadily closer, until the figure of a woman appeared in the doorway. Her expression was calm, almost too calm, as if she had long been expecting to ____ (17) him.
“Marcus,” she said, her voice even but edged with warning, “you should not be here. Some questions are best left ____ (18).”
He met her gaze, surprised less by her words than by the faint trace of recognition they stirred. He had seen her before, fleetingly, at lectures and gatherings, always at the periphery, never fully present yet never absent either. Now, standing before him, she seemed less a stranger than a messenger dispatched from a world he had only begun to ____ (19).
“I cannot stop,” he replied quietly. “Every discovery makes silence impossible. To pretend otherwise would be to ____ (20) my own conscience.”
Her eyes softened, though her stance remained firm. “Then know this: once you speak of what you’ve read, you will not only challenge the present, but you will also awaken the past — and the past has a way of exacting its ____ (21).”
She turned and left without another word, her departure as soundless as mist dissolving in sunlight. Marcus stood motionless, the weight of her warning pressing upon him. Yet even as unease settled in his chest, another sensation stirred within him — not fear, but a strange, stubborn ____ (22).
That night, back in his apartment, he reread his notes under the dim glow of a single lamp. Outside, the city buzzed with nocturnal restlessness, carriages rattling, voices drifting, arguments flaring and subsiding. But Marcus heard none of it. His attention was consumed by the fragile pages, each line demanding he either embrace the truth or ____ (23) it.
He thought of his father, of the legacy that had both protected and confined him. He thought of the future, of students who would inherit not clarity but contradiction unless someone dared to speak. And finally, he thought of himself, caught at the threshold between duty and ____ (24), between silence and revelation.
When the first light of dawn crept through the curtains, Marcus made his decision. He gathered the documents, bound them carefully, and placed them in a satchel. Whatever dangers lay ahead, he would not retreat. The city was waking once more, its people unaware of the truths poised to descend upon them like a long-delayed ____ (25).
As he stepped into the street, the same vendors cried out, their voices echoing through the square. The air smelled of bread, coffee, and damp stone, just as it had the day before. Yet to Marcus, everything seemed ____ (26), as though the world had shifted imperceptibly while no one else had noticed.
He walked steadily, his resolve unshaken. Each step carried him further from complacency and closer to consequence. For he knew, with a clarity rare and absolute, that truth is never merely found; it must be fought for, wrested from silence, and held ____ (27) against the tides of denial.
And though fear whispered at the edges of his mind, he felt also the exhilaration of purpose, the rare sense that he was living not passively but actively, shaping rather than being shaped. Whatever awaited him — ridicule, exile, or even ruin — he would not ____ (28).
For history, he now understood, was not a static ledger of names and dates, but a living contest between memory and forgetfulness, between those who conceal and those who dare to ____ (29). And in that contest, Marcus was determined to stand, however frail, however embattled, as one who would not look away but would instead ____ (30) the truth. ★
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