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28 IV. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verbs in the box. to confirm to cough to be to receive (2) to present to treat to help to become to reveal to drop 1. The electrocardiogram and the blood analyses … the diagnosis of myocardial infarction. 2. The patient … for a month by the time he was admitted to hospital. 3. Six months ago she … courses of antidepressants but they … very much. 4. The blood analysis … leucocytosis and accelerated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). 5. The surgeon decided that the cancer … inoperable. 6. A 45‑year-old female patient … to the emergency department with clinical signs of an incarcerated right inguinal hernia, accompanied by fever. 7. At this time last year he … physiotherapy treatment. 8. She stated she … her mild hypertension with beta-blockers and diuretics for years. 9. Nobody noticed that the patient’s blood pressure … 10. Edward Jenner, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin … successful in developing vaccines for smallpox and polio, reducing the threat of these debilitating diseases. V. Choose the correct answer 1. By the time we arrived the professor … the lecture for half an hour. a) was delivering c) had delivered b) had been delivering d) delivered 2. The urine … a small amount of protein and erythrocytes. a) contained c) had been containing b) had contained d) was containing 3. He said that three years before he … an operation for a tumor of the esophagus. a) was having c) had had b) had been having d) had 4. The doctor … the patient the drugs for his stomach pains. a) had prescribed c) had been prescribing b) prescribed d) was prescribing