Study the following some verbs and word combinations followed by a gerund

Find in the text sentences that might be the answers to the questions given below:

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   What did Jean look like when Robert met her at the theatre? 2. Where were their seats? 3. Upon what scene did the curtain rise? 4. What kind of play was it? 5. Who(m) was Jean greatly impressed by? 6. What did Robert say about the leading actress? 7. What showed that Jean was deeply touched by what was going on on the stage? 8. Why didn’t Jean join in applause? 9. What showed that the performance was a success? 10. Jean had always used Shannon’s Christian name, hadn’t she?VII. Answer the following questions. Use conversational phrases.
   

1She looked eager and her dark eyes sparkled with excite- ment. 2. Their seats were in the pit. 3. The curtain rose upon a scene of eighteenth-century Paris at the time of the Prench Revolution. 4. It was a melodrama full of hopeless love and beroic self- sacrifice, a play after Dickens's novel "A Tale of Two Cities". 5. She wan greatly impressed by pale, dark Carton and deli- cate, charming Lucie Manette, the girl he loved. 6. Robert said about the leading actress that in real life she was Martin Harvey's wife, that she might be about forty- five, and that blonde hair was a wig. 7. Jean couldn't keep her tears and they fell upon the back of Robert's hand like raindrops in spring. 8. Miss Jean Law was too overcome to join in such a banal applause, her feelings were too deep for words. 9. When at last the play came to its end there was a storm of applause and many curtain calls for Miss de Silva and Martin Harvey. 10. It was the first time she had used his Christian name.

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Choose the correct word :
to rise — to raise

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   He ... his head when he heard a slight noise. 2. When we started the sun had already ... . 3. There was a storm of applause when the curtain ... . 4. He ... his hat to greet us. 5. Ann slowly ... to her feet. 6. It was very noisy and the reporter had to ...his voice. 7. The curtain wouldn’t ... and we had to ... it.
   

1. raised 2. risen 3. rose 4. raised 5. rose 6. raise 7. raise

stage —scene

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   The ... was so touching that Jean began to cry. 2. Carrie was told to come onto the ... in the second act. 3. The play consists of two acts and four ... . 4. When the actor appeared on the ... the audience began to applaud. 5. I don’t quite like the final ... in this play. 6. Our seats were in the orchestra stalls and we saw the ... well.
   

1. scene 2. stage 3. scenes 4. stage 5. scene 6. stage