Use of English. Повторение грамматического материала.

Sir Alexander Heathcote was an exact man.  ______ people were like him. He was exactly six feet three-and-a-quarter inches tall, rose at seven o’clock every morning, joined his wife at breakfast to eat one boiled egg cooked for precisely four minutes, two pieces of toast with one spoonful of Cooper’s marmalade, and drink one cup of China tea.

1. many

2. little

3. few

4. much

He used to take a carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and  ______ at the Foreign Office at promptly 8:59, returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.

1. reach

2. arrive

3. come

4. enter

Sir Alexander had been exact from an early age, as he was the only son of a general. But, unlike his father, he chose to serve his queen in the diplomatic service, another exacting calling. He  ______ in progressing from a shared desk at the Foreign Office in Whitehall to third secretary in Calcutta to minister in Peking.

1. fulfilled

2. achieved

3. managed

4. succeeded

He was delighted when Mr. Gladstone  ______ the opportunity to represent the government in China

1. proposed

2. approached

3. offed

4. suggested

For some time he had been  ______ in the art of the Ming dynasty.

1. involved

2. interested

3. fond

4. keen

This appointment would present him a perfect chance of  ______ in their natural habitat some of the great statues, paintings and drawings he had previously been able to admire only in books.

1.observing

2. noticing

3. remarking

4. looking

When he arrived in Beijing, Her Imperial Highness wished him a successful term of office in his appointment and then the audience  ______ to an end.

1. got

2. brought

3. came

4. went