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Практический курс технического перевода

Упражнение 80. Выберите правильное слово в скобках

Пример: Because of their innate (intelligence, intelligences) intelligence, many (pet, pets) pets can often be very protective of the humans they love.

1. One of the most frightening (animal, animals) _______ is a poisonous (rattlesnake, rattlesnakes) _______ – but not to Partner, a twelve-year-old retriever. 2. Longtime friends Nick and Ross, both eight years old, were chopping down a tree for a campfire when a (six-foot, six-feet) _______ rattlesnake fell from a branch. 3. Partner leaped over (dirt, dirts) _______ and (leave, leaves) _______ to get to the poisonous snake, which he attacked and hook feverishly. 4. Verle, Nick’s father and Partner’s owner, was (many, much) _______ yards away when he heard the racket, and he rushed over just in time to see the rattler sink its fangs into Partner’s nose. 5. Within minutes, the rattler was killed by a bystander, and Partner, who showed a lot of (courage, courages) _______ and has now recovered, has become one of the best (friend, friends) _______ Nick and Ross could hope for.

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