Задача по теме: "Грамматика и Лексика"

St.Paul’s School 

I have sweet memories of my childhood and my family. I also (30) _______ going to St. Paul’s School at the age of eleven. There I was made to work really hard for the first time in my life. At my prep school I was top in almost every subject without having to do much more than any other child, and (31) _______ I was called “swot” or “swotty”, it never worried me. At St. Paul’s there turned (32) _______ to be several boys who were clever, but none of them could touch me when it came to maths. I enjoyed a subject so many of my classmates seemed to dread. I couldn’t wait for the next algebraic equation, a further geometric puzzle or the challenge of solving an arithmetic test in my head while others in the form sucked their pencils as they (33) _______ pages of figures.

I did quite well in other subjects and although I was not much good at games I took up the cello and was invited to join the school orchestra, but my form master (34) _______ none of this was important because I was obviously going to be a mathematician for the rest of my life. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, as I knew Dad had left school at fourteen to help my grandfather to sell fruit and vegetables at his small grocery. Mum had gone to London University, but she (35) _______ had to work to keep Dad “in the style to which he’d become accustomed.” Or that’s what I (36) _______ to hear Mum telling him at breakfast from time to time.