Задание №46017 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

Driftwood

It all began when the lights went 30                          . I was just sitting down to watch the News at Ten on television one stormy evening last January, when everything went black.

"Damn," I thought, hunting round for a torch. "The fuses have gone." Ella found a torch in a drawer, and a feeble 31                            of light filled the room. I went to the fuse box and opened it 32                           ; all the fuses were O.K.

"It's a power cut, isn't it?" said Ella.

I could hear her in the kitchen looking for the candles. Suddenly she called. "Jim, there are a couple of dogs barking outside the window. Well, get rid of them, we don't want dogs in the garden: how did they get in anyway? The gate's shut.”

"Must be the storm; it's blown the gate open."

And then, 33                            a walking stick, I went out into the garden. The wind was surging in off the sea, and I could hear the 34                            of the surf on the beach beyond the dunes; as for the gate, it was shut. I supposed the dogs had got in through a hole in the fence. It was just then that I heard the barking. And shouting too. In the dark of the storm, I couldn't really make out land from the sky, but if I was not mistaken, there were people on the top of the dunes, and they seemed to be 35                            their arms. For a moment, I thought I saw torches, then it was all dark again. I decided to 36                           .