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    Learn English > English lessons & exercises > Sequence of tenses : The Student and the Rose (2) (en modif > Stats updated every 4 hours
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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 4 644 people who have taken this test:
    Average mark: 54.5 / 100 Share


    Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): leetcho / FRANCE, on Monday 15 March - 09:49:
    ":love:"


    They got a perfect mark


    Stats (4643 candidates)
    Question 1 passed: 52.4 %
    (... 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: 54.1 %
    Such a way to get a rose * think twice before using it ... It was both cruel and horrible :

    Question 3 passed: 44 %
    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: 51.3 %
    till it * her heart !

    Question 5 passed: 51 %
    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: 56.6 %
    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: 46.2 %
    Was it worth it ? Life was sweet and pleasant in the huge garden, like Paradise ...' Yet, she * for a long time ...

    Question 9 passed: 53.6 %
    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: 52.3 %
    Finally, a little before daybreak, she * about Love : a Love stronger than death,

    Question 11 passed: 39 %
    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: 57.8 %
    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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