ЗНО / НМТ Use of English #1

Slano is a tourist place and a small harbour, located in a gentle        [river, ocean, stream, bay] surrounded        [by, of, within, from] Mediterranean vegetation and sandy beaches. It has developed from a small fishermen's             [city, destination, settlement, tribe] and a centre for collecting the famous aromatic plants of Dubrovnik coastal area. The place has been            [inhabited, inhabiting, inhabit, to inhabit] since            [old, before, ancient, historical] times.

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Late one night, a man             [walking, was walking, walked, is walking]home through a cemetery became                 [frightening, frighten, frightened, have frightened]when he heard a tapping noise TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP.         [As, While, Because, Before] he walked, the tapping got           [loud, loudly, louder, more loud]TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP!! and he became terrified. Suddenly, he came          [in, across, after, opposite]a man, kneeling down, tapping at a tombstone with a chisel.
"Oh, thank goodness!" said     [a, the, ---, an]man. "You frightened        [me, you, myself, us]. I didn't know what the noise         [is, was, be, will be]. What are you doing?"

The         [other, another, others, other's]man turned to face him in the moonlight and said, "They spelled my name wrong."

Daily, we look        [in, at, after, out of] the window               [understand, to understand, understanding, understood] the state of the weather and probably            [tell, telling, told, being told] how the day will look      [like, at, as, for]. With understanding how the day will look, we can dress for         [so, so as, such, such as] weather. The weather affects us in          [much, many, more, the most] ways than one and it can also influence how we feel and look at the world.

The weather, simply, is the temporary          [way, state, place, addition] or condition of the atmosphere. The weather is influenced by, among others, air          [pressing, pressure, press, presses], temperature, and moisture.