Open the brackets and complete the text.

1. Open the brackets and complete the text.

Too Late to Stop

Andrew Smith liked the novels of a writer (1. call) ____________David Lambourn. Andrew's wife Sarah, the manager of a big bookshop, always (2. bring) ______________Andrew the (3. late) __________works by his favourite writer. Then one day Sarah (4. say)___________to her husband, "David Lambourn (5. come) ____________to (6. we) __________ bookshop (7. sign)__________copies of his new book for his admirers. (8. Be, not) ___________that good news? A big party (9. organize) _____________for him at the Grand Hotel and you (10. invite) ______________as my husband." Andrew (11. get) __________very happy and (12. look) _____________ forward to the day when he (13. meet) _____________David Lambourn. On the great day at 6 p.m. Andrew (14. stand) ____________at the door of the hotel room where the party just (15. begin) _____________. He (16. hope) _____________he (17. recognize) _____________the writer whose photograph he (18. have) _____________ for a long time. And he really (19. do) _____________. The great writer (20. talk) _____________ to his wife Sarah! What luck! Andrew (21. introduce) _____________to the writer (immediate) _____________. He wanted the great man (22. tell) _____________him about his (23. early) _________days as a writer and (24. learn) _____________that the writer's real name was David Lamb but his agent (25. advise) _____________him to change it. Then Andrew saw David Lambourn (26. smile) _____________. "You (27. like) _____________ (28. know) _____________my little secret?" he asked, "When I (29. write) _____________ for twelve years already, I (30. find) _____________out that I (31. have) ___________no talent as a writer!" Andrew was surprised and asked why he (32. give, not) _____________up writing. «By that time I (33. become) _____________ too famous to stop," answered the writer.