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PRACTICE 5

PRACTICE 5 1. They never buy anything before / after they compare the prices.
Underline the correct choice.

2. As soon as / Until the bus arrives at the bus stop, people rush towards it.
3. My sister sometimes cries when / before she gets furious.
4. I always leave a message when / as soon as I don’t reach the person I call.
5. He is such a troublemaker that as soon as / before I see him, I feel tense.
6. She never finishes her homework before / as soon as her mother comes home.
7. Do you always go shopping until / as soon as you hear about special sales at shops?
8. Until / When you recover, you aren’t allowed to go out.

PRACTICE 6

PRACTICE 6 only once. request - let - open - enjoy - continue - run - display
Fill in the blanks with a suitable verb from the list using “Simple Present Tense”. Use each one

fall - jump - approach - persuade - gain - present - belong - be - dispose - lament - tell - attain -

PUSS IN BOOTS
The tale (1) _________ with the third and youngest son of a miller receiving his inheritance—a cat. At
first, the youngest son (2) __________, as the eldest brother (3) __________ the mill and the middle
brother (4) ___________ the mules. The feline is no ordinary cat, however, but one who
(5) __________ and receives a pair of boots. Determined to make his master’s fortune, the cat
bags a rabbit in the forest and (6) __________ it to the king as a gift from his master, the fictional
Marquis of Carabas. The cat (7) __________ making gifts of game to the king for several months.
One day, knowing the king and his daughter are travelling by coach along the riverside, the cat
(8) __________ his master to remove his clothes and enter the river. The cat (9) __________ of his
master’s clothing beneath a rock. As the royal coach (10) _____________, the cat starts calling for
help in great distress, and, when the king stops to investigate, the cat (11) __________ him that his
master, the Marquis, has been bathing in the river and robbed of his clothing. The king has the
young man brought from the river, dressed in a splendid suit of clothes and seated in the coach with
his daughter, who (12) __________ in love with him at once.
The cat hurries ahead of the coach, ordering the country folk along the road to tell the king that the
land (13) ___________ to the “Marquis of Carabas”, saying that if they do not, he will cut them into
mincemeat. The cat then happens upon a castle inhabited by an ogre who (14) __________ capable
of transforming himself into a number of creatures. The ogre (15) __________ his ability by changing
into a lion, frightening the cat, who then tricks the ogre into changing into a mouse. Once that
change is complete, the cat (16) ___________ on the mouse and devours it. The king arrives at the
castle which formerly belonged to the ogre, and, impressed with the bogus Marquis and his estate,
so the king (17) ______________ the young guy marry her daughter. Thereafter, the cat
(18) ___________ life as a great lord who (19) ___________ after mice only for his own amusement.

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