Read the text quickly and put the sentences given below into the correct spaces.A Day to RememberWe all have experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin
well enough, but suddenly everything
seems to get out of control. What always happens is that a great number of
things choose to go wrong at precisely
the same moment. пустоIt is when a single unimportant event sets up a chain of reactions.
So, yesterday I was cooking a meal and was keeping an eye on the baby at same time. The telephone rang.
So, that was the beginning of an unforeseen
series of catastrophes. While I was
on the phone, the baby pulled the table-cloth
off the table, smashing half of our crockery and cutting himself in the
process. I hung up hurriedly and
rushed to baby, crockery, etc. пустоMeanwhile, the meal got burnt. If this was not
enough to reduce you to tears, my husband arrived, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big
scale. It was in Parramatta, a suburb
of Sydney. During rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. пустоMeanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. She suddenly got into panic and stopped her car. This made
the driver who was following her brake
hard. His wife was sitting beside him and holding a large cake. The cake went
right through the windscreen and
landed on the road. When a lorry-driver saw a cake flying through the air, he suddenly stopped. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of
them slid off on to the road. This
let to yet another angry argument. пустоThe woman behind the two cars was a learner. It took the police nearly an hour to get the
traffic on the move again. Besides, the lorry-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.