Задание №39280 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

Axe Murder Hollow

Susan and Ned were driving 30                       a wooded empty section of highway. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, the sky went dark in the torrential downpour.

“We’d better stop,” said Susan.

Ned nodded his head in 31                      . He stepped on the brake, and suddenly the car started to slide on the slick pavement. They 32                       off the road and slid to a halt at the bottom of an incline.

“I’m going to see how bad it is,” he told Susan, and went out into the storm. She saw his 33                       figure in the headlight, walking around the front of the car. A moment later, he jumped in beside her, soaking wet.

“The car’s not badly 34                      , but we’re wheel-deep in mud,” he said. “I’m going to have to go for help.”

Susan swallowed nervously. There would be no quick 35                       here. He told her to turn off the headlights and lock the doors until he returned.

Axe Murder Hollow. Although Ned hadn’t said the name aloud, they both knew what he had been thinking when he told her to lock the car. This was the place where a man had once taken an axe and 36                       his wife to death in a jealous rage over an alleged affair. Supposedly, the axe-wielding spirit of the husband continued to haunt this section of the road.