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Potatoes came to Europe from South America in 1533, but people didn’t want to 1 ____ potatoes. It wasn’t easy to make them do it.

King Louis XVI of France 2_____ of a plan. He asked the gardener to grow potatoes in his garden and sent the soldiers to 3____ the beds day and night. If 4_____ came near the garden, the soldiers began to shoot. The people became 5_____ . “These are new plants!” they 6____ . “It7_____ be good if the king looks8_____ them”.

In autumn the soldiers dug the potatoes and left them in the garden. When the peasants took9____ of the potatoes, they didn’t10_____ to notice it. Soon the peasants took all the potatoes. After it Frenchmen began to grow potatoes and French women learned to cook them.

1) grow 2) grew 3) be growing 4) grown

1) think 2) thought 3) thinked 4) is thought

1) eat 2) see 3) guard 4) study

1) somebody 2) anybody 3) nobody 4) everybody

1) suspicious 2) worried 3) interested 4) indifferent

1) told 2) talked 3) spoke 4) said

1) must 2) may 3) should 4) could

1) at 2) after 3) through 4) for

1) any 2) a lot 3) some 4) a little

10.1) want 2) like 3) remember 4) seem