Задача по теме: "Грамматика и Лексика"

Back to school  

When I was younger, I spent a lot of my summers running wild and free in my cousin’s house on the west coast of Ireland. I did not need to know what time it was or to (30) ________________ at my watch. We often played football, hurling and soccer (31) ___________ darkness fell. My uncle Jerrold loved fishing and (32) ____________ to pile us all into the back of his dark brown Ford Taunus and bring us off down to Fanore or to the amazing beauty of the Burren. We spent hours there collecting seashells or (33) _________ for crabs and jellyfish.

I remember one particular evening as if it happened yesterday. I was sitting day- dreaming in his ancient boat looking up at the beauty of the late summer sky when I suddenly (34) ____________ that it was only about nine o'clock, yet the light was fading. I knew then that the game was up and in a few days I would be sitting in my grey school uniform in a grey classroom staring out of the window dreaming of adventure…

Even still, over thirty years later, late August (35) _____________ up lots of conflicting emotions. As a ten-year-old girl, I remember the feelings of loss because the summer was finally over, but at the same time a big part of me was looking (36) __________ to getting back into a school routine, although I would rather die than admit this to anyone. And September meant meeting up with all of my friends and there was nothing bad about that at all.