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The servant came in and (15 – place)
_______________ on the table a boiled chicken under a cover. An hour (16 – pass)
_______________ but Newton (17 – not appear) _______________. The gentleman (18 – feel) _______________ really hungry. After he (19 – eat) _______________
the chicken, he (20 – cover) _______________ up the skeleton. He (21 – ask)
_______________ the servant to prepare another one for his master.
Before the second chicken (22 – cook) _______________, however, the scientist
(23 – enter) _______________ the room and (24 – apologize) _______________
for his delay. Then he added, “As I (25 – feel) _______________ rather tired and
hungry, I (26 – hope) _______________ you (27 – excuse) _______________ me a
little longer, while I (28 – take) _______________ my dinner, then I (29 – be)
_______________ at your service.” With these words he (30 – lift)
_______________ the cover, and without emotion (31 – turn) _______________
round to the gentleman and (32 – say) _____________, “See how strange scientists
(33 – be) _____________. I quite (34 – forget) that I (35 – dine) _______________
already.”

15 - placed, 16 - passed, 17 - didn't appear, 18 - felt. 19 - ate, 20 - covered, 21 - asked, 22 - cooked, 23 - entered, 24 - apologized, 25 - felt, 26 - hope, 27 - will excuse, 28 - take, 29 - shall be, 30 - lifted, 31 - turned, 32 - said, 33 - are, 34 - forgot, 35 - had dined