Задание №4772 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

My second visit

It was my second visit to Dr Boxer. He answered the door exactly as he had done the first time, by opening only a crack and looking through it warily, as if there were something that he was 30                           not everyone should see. He 31                           me of a gatekeeper in a fairy story: ageless and watchful. It was a feeling I would come to know well in the next months. Even now, years later and far away, sometimes in my dreams, I find myself standing before that white door, 32                           for him to open it. When he 33                           it was me, he opened the door slightly wider than he had done the first time. He let me in.

It was a beautiful room, not an office at all, and much bigger than it looked from outside – airy and white, with a high ceiling and two windows. In the corner, near a low bookshelf, was a big round table with teapots and Greek books, and there were flowers everywhere. I was surprised and 34                           at the same time. Everywhere I looked, there was something beautiful – Oriental carpets, tiny paintings and white vases with flowers. He sat in an armchair by the window and said, “I 35                           you’ve come about the Greek class.”

“Yes.”

“It’s rather late in the term,” he said. “Young people often find Greek a bore, which is not to say that it isn’t good for them.”

“I’d like to study it again. It seems a shame to 36                           it after two years”.

After a moment Dr Boxer said slowly, “If you’d like, I’d be happy to take you as a pupil, Mr Brown.”