My Promise: Multiple Choice Grammar Test

I do not think it (1) _________ for many people at the age of six to be able to predict their future with (2) _________ accuracy. However, at that age I felt (3) _________ to inform my mother that I intended to have my own zoo and moreover, I added, I (4) _________ her a cottage in the grounds to live (5) _________. If my mother had been an American parent, she (6) _________ me to the nearest psychiatrist; however, (7) _________ fairly phlegmatic, she merely said she thought that it (8) _________ lovely and (9) _________ forgot all about it. She should (10) _________ since, from the age of two, I had been filling matchboxes and my pockets with a wide variety of the smaller fauna that came on my way, (11) _________ the progress from a matchbox to a zoo (12) _________ predicted. It is nice to record though that, before she died, I (13) _________ my promise and taken her to live in my zoo, not in a cottage but in a manor house.

Gerald Durrell