1.    1. Complete the sentences. Use
the correct form of the verb in brackets.(17pkt)

A strange vanishing act

One summer afternoon in New York in 1875,

while his wife (prepare) 1……………. dinner,

Mr Levi Gamin (leave) 2 ……… house to buy

some tobacco. He (never/return) 3 ….. .

Sixty years later in 1935, The
New York Times (print)

4 ... a story about a man 'dressed in strange

old-fashioned clothes' who (step) 5 ……. 
In front of

a car while crossing Times Square. He (die) 6 ……….


instantly.                                               

The dead man (carry) 7........
no identification

and there was nothing in his pocket except

some old bank notes from the year 1875. The

police (have) 8 …… no idea who the man was or

why he (wear) 9 …… such strange clothes, until a

police officer (decide) 10….... to check the missing

persons file for 1875. In the file was a

description of Mr Gamin which matched the

description of the dead man exactly. It was then

:hat the questions (begin) 11 ……. .

Why (Mr Gamin/disappear) 12 …… in 1875? How (he/suddenly/turn
up) 13 ..... in Times Square in 1935? Where (he/be ) 14 …… for the
last sixty years and why (his appearance/not change) 15 ....... ?
(Mr Gamin/ really/vanish) l6  …….  into
thin air or (something unknown/take) l7...... him into another
dimension