Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

18. I prefer fish. I eat … meat.

A) very little B) a few C) none D) very few

19. We wanted to know, “What have we missed so far?” We wanted to know what … missed so far.

A) we had B) have we C) had we D) we have

20. Ann couldn`t find the cheque … , but was sure she had left it on her desk.

A) everywhere B) anywhere C) somewhere D) nowhere

Before the battle of Mandalay, I visited the front to inspect our defences. I was much impressed to see how cleverly this Chinese Fifth Army had dug in their field guns. When contact had been gained with advancing Japanese, I again inspected the defences, and to my astonishment I found that the artillery had disappeared. When I asked the army commander what happened to his guns, he said that he had withdrawn them to safety. “Then you mean”, I said, “that they will not take part in the battle?” “Exactly,” he replied “But then what use are they?” He said: “General, the Fifth Chinese Army is our best army, because it’s the only one which has any field guns and I cannot afford to risk those guns. If I lose them, the Fifth Army will no longer be our best.”