🕯️ TEST 2 — A FRIGHTFUL NIGHT (Gap-fill)

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1. One dark night a young man (go)
         home from the railway station.
      
2. It (be)
         very late and there (be)
         very few people in the streets.
      
3. The young man (be)
         very nervous because he (return, never)
         home so late.
      
4. Suddenly he (feel)
         that somebody (follow)
         him.
      
5. The young man (think)
         that it (be)
         a robber and (decide)
         to walk as quickly as he (can)
         .
      
6. When he (look)
         back he (see)
         that the man (follow, still)
         him.
      
7. The young man (turn)
         into another street.
        The man (turn)
         into that street too.
      
8. Now the young man (be)
         quite sure that the man (be)
         a robber.
      
9. The young man (turn)
         round and (ask)
         :
        “What (want, you)
         ?
        Why (follow, you)
         me?”
      
10. “I (go)
         to see Mr Brown,” (say)
         the man,
        “and the porter at the station (tell)
         me:
        ‘If you (follow)
         this young man, you (find)
         his house easily, he (live)
         next door to Mr Brown.’”
      

Tip: contractions are accepted (I'm → I am). Direct speech uses present tenses where natural (e.g., do you want, are you following).

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One dark night a young man was going home from the railway station.
It was very late and there were very few people in the streets.
The young man was very nervous because he had never returned home so late.
Suddenly he felt that somebody was following him.
The young man thought that it was a robber and decided to walk as quickly as he could.
When he looked back he saw that the man was still following him.
The young man turned into another street. The man turned into that street too.
Now the young man was quite sure that the man was a robber.
The young man turned round and asked: “What do you want? Why are you following me?”
“I am going to see Mr Brown,” said the man, “and the porter at the station told me:
‘If you follow this young man, you will find his house easily, he lives next door to Mr Brown.’”
    