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Exercise "Sequence of tenses : The Student and the Rose (2) (en modif", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 4 835 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 55 / 100 Share
Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): icare29 / FRANCE, on Sunday 13 April - 11:24:
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Stats (4834 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 52.5 %
(... continued)The worried nightingale had asked the rose-tree : 'Is there a way for me to have a red rose ?' The tree had answered : 'THERE'S A WAY !' and the nightingale *. What could it be ? She listened ....
Question 2 passed: 54.4 %
Such a way to get a rose * think twice before using it ... It was both cruel and horrible :
Question 3 passed: 44.1 %
The gentle nightingale should sing her sweetest song all night long : That was good ! Yet, in the meantime, she * her breast (sa gorge) against one of the thorns (épines) of the rose-tree,
Question 4 passed: 51.5 %
till it * her heart !
Question 5 passed: 50.5 %
The blood in her heart was so crimson that it * the rose red before the end of the night ...
Question 6 passed: 54.5 %
If she stopped singing before the necessary time, because of her pain, the rose *, but light pink ! Not a rose for a Beloved Lady !
Question 7 passed: 57 %
At that point, the sweet nightingale faced a terrible dilemma : 'Either the Student * to dance with his Beloved Lady, or he could, but the generous nightingale would sacrifice her life for that event ...
Question 8 passed: 46.4 %
Was it worth it ? Life was sweet and pleasant in the huge garden, like Paradise ...' Yet, she * for a long time ...
Question 9 passed: 53.7 %
Leaning on the thorn, she * the story of a new, beginning Love, tender and young ... Then, she sang of passion and strong feelings, then of surrender, harmony and complicity ...
Question 10 passed: 52.9 %
Finally, a little before daybreak, she * about Love : a Love stronger than death,
Question 11 passed: 39.3 %
and which * death itself ... The nightingale's song was both beautiful and harrowing ... and the rose was finally bright crimson at sunrise. Alas ! Just a detail I should mention ... the Nightingale was then lying, dead ...
Question 12 passed: 58.2 %
The following morning, the Student caught sight of the reddest rose he *. He didn't try to find an explanation for this sudden apparition overnight ... Nothing mattered to him but the red rose ! (to be continued ...)
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