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Read the following passage adapted from ‘Three Men in a Boat’ and fill in the blanks with appropriate modals and read the paragraph aloud.
I thought I will go to British Museum today to read the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I (1)______ read all I wanted to read and then felt I (2)______begin to study diseases. I started to generally turn the leaves idly. I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms and discovered I (3)______be having it for months without knowing it. Cholera, I had severe complications. Diphtheria, I (4)______have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease, I had only in a modified form as so far as that was concerned, I (5)______live for years. The only disease I (6)______conclude I had not got was a housemaid’s knee. I sat and pondered. I tried to feel my heart. I (7)______(not feel) my heart. I walked into the reading room as a happy healthy man but crawled out as a decrepit wreck.
Solution
I thought I will go to British Museum today to read the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I (1) could read all I wanted to read and then felt I (2) must begin to study diseases. I started to generally turn the leaves idly. I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms, and discovered I (3) was be having it for months without knowing it. Cholera, I had severe complications. Diphtheria, I (4) must have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease, I had only in a modified form as so far as that was concerned, I (5) would live for years. The only disease I (6) could conclude I had not got was a housemaid’s knee. I sat and pondered. I tried to feel my heart. I (7) could not feel my heart. I walked into the reading room as a happy healthy man but crawled out as a decrepit wreck.
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