Text 518

Mary was seven years old. Her parents had recently moved to a new town, and so Mary was going to a different school from the one she had been at for some years. It was a few kilometres from the house which she now lived in with her parents, but there was a school bus that went around picking up pupils every morning and bringing them back to their homes every afternoon, and as both of Mary's parents had to go to work

every morning, she always went on this bus. She had to be at a corner twenty metres from her front door by half past eight every day and the bus was usually on time, and never more than a minute or two late.

Mary's parents always set their alarm clock every evening so that none of them would be late, but one morning the alarm failed to go off, and it was not till a quarter past eight that Mary's mother suddenly woke up, looked at the clock, said, 'What ever's happened to that clock?' and then hurried into Mary's room. Mary was fast asleep, but her mother woke her up and told her to get ready for school.

'I'm sorry, dear," she said, 'but you'll have to wash and dress very quickly, have an even quicker breakfast, and then I'll drive you to school on my way to the office. I'll get your breakfast ready now.'

'But how ever will you find the way, Mum?' Mary said. 'You've only been to school once.'

'Yes,' her mother answered, but you've done the trip several times now in the bus, so you can be my guide to get there, can't you?'

'Oh, yes,' said Mary, 'I suppose so.' She washed, dressed and had a quick breakfast, and then she and her mother went to the garage and got into the car.

They set off, and Mary told her mother to turn each time that they came to a place she recognised. In this way she made her mother drive round most of the town before they got to her school. When they arrived, her mother saw that it was not really very far from their house.

'Why ever did you make me go such a long way round, Mary, instead of the most direct way?' her mother asked her.

'Well, Mum,' answered Mary, 'it was because I didn't know how else to get here. That's the way our bus always goes to pick up the other children on the way to school.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.Did Mary change schools?

2.Why did she do this?

3.Did Mary usually go to school in her mother's car?

4.Why was Mary late one morning?

5 Did Mary get her breakfast ready?

6.Did Mary know the way to school?

7 How did she know where her mother should turn?

8.Was the school really rather near, or a long way from

Mary's house?

9.Did Mary make her mother go a long way round?

10 Why did she do this?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. old
2. evening
3. same
4. always
5. wavy
6. less
7. slowly
8. lose
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mary drove to school every evening by car.
2.  Mary woke up her mother one day
3.  Mary broke their alarm clock
4. Mary's  mother told that Mary will not go to school today because they overslept .
5. Mary and her parents moved to London
6. Mary’s mother said that they will drive to school by navigation system
7. They drove around the city's streets because Mary wanted to be late to school
8. Mary’s father worked in the factory.
9. Mary’s mother told that she will call to taxі to go to school.
10. Mary’s university was a few kilometres from her new flat.

Text 519

Sally had been studying at an art college for a year and, like most students, she did not have much money. It was going to be her mother's birthday soon, and she wondered what she could buy her as a present that would be nice and useful but not too expensive.

Sally's college was in London, but she had been living in the country for many years, so every day she had an hour's journey by train in the morning, and the same in the evening.

At lunch time one day, a week before her mother's birthday, she decided to have a quick sandwich and a cup of coffee instead of her usual meal in the college hall, and then go shopping near her college to try to find her mother a nice present. When she had been looking for half an hour, she came across a shop that was selling umbrellas cheap, and decided that one of those would solve her problem, since her mother had lost hers the month before.

'Now which colour shall I choose?' she thought. 'Well, I think a black one would be the most useful really. You can carry that when you are wearing clothes of any colour, can't you?' So having made up her mind, she bought a lovely black umbrella and took it back to the college with her until her classes had finished.

On her way back home in the train that evening she felt hungry because she had had such a small lunch, so she went along to the buffet car for another sandwich and cup of coffee.

She had left the black umbrella above her seat in the compartment, but when she got back, it had gone! When she had left the compartment, there had been no other passengers in it, but now there were three.

Sally burst into tears when she saw that the umbrella was no longer there. The other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what the matter was. When she explained that the black umbrella she had bought for her mother had disappeared, and that she had to get out at the next station, the three other passengers asked her for her mother's address, in

order to be able to send the umbrella on to her in case someone had removed it by mistake and not on purpose, and brought it back after Sally had got out of the train.

The next week, Sally heard from her mother. Her letter said, 'Thank you very much for your lovely presents, but why did you send me three black umbrellas?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What did Sally want to buy?

2. Why did it have to be rather cheap?

3. Why did she have to go to her college by train?

4. Did she usually have a quick sandwich and a cup of coffee for her lunch?

5. Why did she not have her usual lunch one day?

6. Why did she choose a black umbrella?

7 Why did she leave the umbrella in her compartment in the

train?

8. Was the umbrella there when she came back?

9. Why did the other passengers say they wanted Sally's mother's address?

10. Do you think that someone brought the umbrella back to the compartment?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Cheap
2.Evening
3.After
4.Started
5.Full
6.Came
7.Big
8.Found
9.Bad
10.Previous

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.Sally was a teacher
2.Sally wanted to buy a very expensive gift for her mother
3.Sally`s mother birthday will be in 6 month
4.One day, at the lunch time,the week before her mother`s birthday,Sally ate a lobster
5.Sally decided to buy her mother a car
6.Sally had lost keys of her mothers car
7.Sally was laughing after she lost her mother`s car keys
8.Everybody felt happy after Sally lost her mother`s car keys
9.Nobody didn`t want to return Sally`s mother car keys
10.Sally`s mother didn`t receive her car keys

Text 520

Mrs Grey lived in the country, but she worked in London, the capital of England. She always drove to the railway station in her car every morning, and left it in the station car park until she arrived back in the train in the evening. She was a careful driver, but one morning she was rather late, so she was going rather faster than usual when she had an accident in a narrow road not far from her home.

What happened was that another car was coming in the opposite direction, and either that one or Mrs Grey's car was too far in the middle of the road, or perhaps both of them were. They ran into each other and were both damaged, although not enough to stop them being driven.

Both Mrs Grey and the other driver, who was a young man whom she had seen in the district but had not met, got out of their cars, and Mrs Grey said, I'm afraid I haven't got time to waste on an accident this morning, as I have a very important appointment in town at nine, and I suppose you're busy man too.'

'Yes, I am,' the young man said, 'but we'll have to call the police for insurance purposes, won't we? They won't pay for the damage unless we have reported the accident to the police and they have come and seen what happened.'

'Yes, certainly,' Mrs Grey answered, but I have something to suggest. We won't be committing a crime if we go away now in our cars, and then come back to the scene of the accident, say, at six this evening, and put them in exactly the same positions as they are in now. Then we can call the police. They won't know what time the accident happened, and the

insurance companies won't care either as long as we can send them a police report of the accident.'

'What a good idea!' the young man said happily. 'So I'll be waiting here at six o'clock this evening. I won't be late!' 'Nor will I,' Mrs Grey answered. She and the young man exchanged visiting cards, and then each drove off to carry on

with their work.

When Mrs Grey arrived at the station from London at a quarter to six that evening, she got into her car, drove to the place where the accident had happened, and found the young man waiting there in his car. They put both cars in exactly the same positions as they had been in after the accident, and then Mrs Grey called the police, using the telephone in her car, as if the accident had just happened.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.How did Mrs Grey get to London every morning?

2.Why did she have an accident one morning?

3. Were the cars so badly damaged that they could not be

driven away?

4.Did Mrs Grey know the driver of the other car?

5.Why did Mrs Grey not want to call the police at once?

6. Why was it necessary to call the police?

7. What did Mrs Grey plan to do?

8. How did they know each other's name?

9. Who arrived first at the place where the accident had

happened?

10. How did they get the police to come?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Evening
2.Early
3.Near
4.Different
5.Old
6.Left
7.Sadly
8.Free
9.Slower
10.Rest

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.Mrs Grey lived in London
2.Mrs Grey worked in countryside
3.Mrs Grey was driving a motorcycle
4.Mrs Grey saw a supermarket next to the road
5.Mrs Grey wanted to go buy products
6.She couldn`t buy products because she needed to look after kids
7.Shop was closing before comes back
8.
9.
10.

Text 521

In many countries now seat belts are compulsory for the driver

and front seat passenger at least.

Most doctors believe that seat belts save people from being seriously hurt in a crash, but there are some people who still think that it is more dangerous to wear a seat belt than not to wear one.

They say that a seat belt may trap one in a car that is burning, or that has fallen into a river or the sea and is sinking, so that one is burnt to death or drowned.

But less than half of one per cent of car accidents lead to fire or sinking, and in any case, a seat belt may casily save a person from being knocked unconscious in an accident, so that he or she is able to undo the seat belt immediately and get out of a car that is on fire or sinking.

People who object to seat belts also sometimes say that without one, one may be thrown right out of a car in a crash, but doctors will tell you that that is the last thing one wants to happen: if one is thrown out of a car, one hits something, usually the road, and usually hard and at speed. It is better to remain inside a car in the case of a crash.

There is also the question of personal freedom; some people say that it is an attack on their freedom to force them to wear a seat belt, whether they want to or not. But even in a demoċracy there are a lot of things a person is denied the right to do though he or she wants to do them. I may, for example, want to play music loudly all night; it interferes with my freedom if I am not allowed to do this. But my neighbours have their

own rights to freedom, just as I have. They want to be free to sleep quietly at night, and if I stop them doing so, I am interfering with their freedom.

How does this affect seat belts? In what way does it interfere with the rights of others if someone refuses to wear a seat belt? Well, first of all because common sense tells us that a driver without a seat belt has less control of a car if there is an accident, so that he or she is more likely to be a danger to others, who after all also have the right to be protected as much as possible from accident.

But also there is the question of the cost of being hurt. A driver expects to be taken to hospital free of charge by ambulance if he or she is hurt in a crash. He or she also expects to be looked after properly in hospital, again free of charge. Who pays for this? In most countries the people who pay the taxes do so. And they have a right to demand that the amount they pay should be kept as low as possible by making sure that people do not hurt themselves unnecessarily by not taking proper care such as wearing a seat belt.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.Do all people believe that seat belts are a good thing?

2 Why do some people say that they are dangerous?

3.Do a lot of cars catch fire or fall into deep water?

4.How can a seat belt help if one's car does catch fire or sink?

5. Do doctors say that it is better or worse to be thrown out of a car if it has an accident?

6. Why?

7. Are we free to do what we want in a democracy?

8.What limits our freedom?

9. Why may our not wearing a seat belt affect other people?

10.How does not wearing seat belts affect people who pay taxes?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.To be born
2.Outside
3.Easy
4.More
5.In
6.Off
7.Loudly
8.Start
9.High
10.Safe

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 522

Sarah had a son of ten, who was called Jack. He did not like studying, but loved watching television. Sarah used to drive to school at half past four in the afternoon, bring Jack back home and give him his tea, but as soon as he got into the house, he always rushed to the television set and turned :

Haven't you got any homework, Jack?" his mother always

asked him as she began to make the tea.

Eh? Oh, yes, I've got a little,' he used to answer. I'll do it later when there's nothing interesting on television.'

At first Sarah had allowed Jack to watch television instead of starting on his homework first, but she soon discovered that he never had a little homework it was always a grcat deal - and that there was never a time when there was nothing interesting on television, so that after putting off doing his homework for a couple of hours, Jack was too tired to do his

homework properly, if at all.

Sarah then decided to make him do it first. This was always a battle, and often when Jack obeyed his mother, he did the work quickly and carelessly in order to finish it and get backk to his beloved television.

on.

The result was the same as when he left his homework until last; bad work, which he was punished for the next day at school by getting low marks, either because his homework was full of mistakes, or because he did not know the work he was supposed to have prepared the night before.

One evening Jack's science homework was about famous inventors like Thomas Edison, who made important discoveries and inventions in the field of electricity. When he had homework that consisted of learning facts, his mother had begun to test him when he finished, to try to make sure that he had really done the work properly and not left anything

out, and this is what she did this time. She did not let him stop until she was sure that he knew what was in his book.

But this time, it was less of a battle than usual to make Jack sit down and go over what he had to learn carefully, because it had a strong connection with television.

In class the next day, the teacher said to Jack, 'What are some of the things that Thomas Edison did for science?'

'Well,' Jack answered happily, 'first of all, if it weren't for Edison, we'd all be watching television by candlelight!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Jack have homework?

2. Why did he not do it well?

3. When did he say he would do it?

4. Was there sometimes nothing interesting on television for Jack?

5. What happened after a couple of hours?

6. What did Jack's mother do then?

7. Did this produce good results?

8 What did Jack's mother do then to stop him being punished at school?

9. Why did Jack enjoy doing his homework about Thomas Edison?

10. If there was no electricity, could we watch television by candelight?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Never
2.Big
3.Finish
4.Last
5.Good
6.High
7.After
8.More
9.Take
10.Hate

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 523

Alan Brown liked the novels of a writer whose name was Fraser Lambourn very much, and as Alan's wife Violet was the manager of a big bookshop, she always brought Alan back the a latest work by his favourite writer.

Then one day Violet said to her husband, 'Guess what, Alan! Fraser Lambourn's coming to our bookshop next week 3 to sign copies of his new book for people who buy it! Isn't that good news?

Yes, it's wonderful!' said Alan happily. Then he stopped and thought for a few seconds. 'But you've already brought me a copy of his new book!' he said disappointedly. I don't suppose he'll sign that, will he?'

'Oh, yes, he will,' said Violet cheerfully. 'You just wait and 5 see. She told Alan that her bookshop was giving Fraser Lambourn a party at the Grand Hotel before he started signing, and that he would owe her something for that. 'You've been invited as my husband, by the way,' Violet added, 'so you can have a word with him there.' Alan became happy again, and he eagerly looked forward to the Saturday on which he would meet Fraser Lambourn.

The day came at last, and at the time Violet had told him, Alan was at the door of the hotel room where the party was going to be, looking inside to see if he could recognise his favourite writer, whose photograph he had had for a long time. He had a small black beard.

'Yes, there he is!' he said to himself excitedly. 'And he's having a conversation with Violet! Hurrah! What luck!' He went in, and said, 'Hullo, dear' to his wife. She introduced him to the great man.

'Mr Lambourn . . .,' Violet began.

'Oh, do please call me Fraser,' the writer interrupted with a smile.

'Thank you, Fraser,' Violet said. Then she turned to Alan and said, 'Fraser was telling me about his early days as a writer. It was most interesting. Could you repeat what you were saying for Alan, Fraser?'

'Certainly,' Fraser answered. 'I was telling your charming wife that my real name was Larry Lamb, but that my agent had advised me to change it if I wanted to find a publisher. How right he was!'

'And you were telling me something else too, Fraser,' said Violet with a smile.

'Oh, yes,' the writer continued, 'I was telling Violet that it wasn't till I'd been writing for twelve years that I discovered I had no talent at all as a writer.'

Alan was very surprised and asked Fraser why he hadn't

given up writing then.

'I couldn't,' declared Fraser. 'By that time I was too famous

to stop.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. How did Alan get Fraser Lambourn's books?

2 What did Alan hope to do when Fraser came to the bookshop?

3. Why did Alan think Fraser would not do this?

4. Why was Violet sure that Fraser would sign Alan's copy of the book?

5. How did Alan recognise Fraser?

6. Why was Alan lucky when he went into the hotel room?

7.What was the writer's real name?

8.Did he change it?

9.What did Fraser find out after twelve years?

10. Did he stop writing then?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 524

Joan was very good at science when she was at school, and she was especially interested in computers, so when she finished her education she decided to work with them.

She very much enjoyed the work in the office she joined, and soon she was able to do unusually clever things with computers.

They're really like friends to me nowadays,' Joan told her mother one evening during supper. I can ask them questions, and they answer just like people, but more politely and without arguing, and without one having to wonder whether one is going to hurt their feelings. And they never lie!'

'I should hope not!' her mother answered. It sounds like the perfect companion - or husband doesn't it?' They both laughed. But can any of them think for themselves?'

I'm afraid not,' Joan said. 'You can get no more out of them than what you've put in. It's called programming. But it's wonderful what you can get them to do.'

'Well,' Joan's mother said, 'I'm curious to know whether you can programme one of them to give me some advice.'

'I hope so,' answered Joan. 'I'll try it out. What do you wantadvice about?'

'Well,' her mother answered, 'you know my two watches, don't you?'

'Yes,' Joan answered doubtfully. 'What advice can a

computer give you about them?'

'Well,' her mother answered, 'one of them gains one second every hour, and the other has stopped and won't start again. I'd be grateful to know which I should keep. Do you mind asking one of your computers?'

Joan laughed and answered, 'That's a strange thing to ask

a computer, but I'll do so. I'll ask Donald. He's my best computer.'

When she got home the next evening, her mother had forgotten all about her request for advice.

You remember what you asked about your two watches, Mum?' she said.

'Eh? What's that? My two watches? Oh, yes. I don't suppose your computer could give me any advice."

'Oh, yes, he could!' Joan replied. 'Donald had the answer in a flash.'

'Donald?' said her mother. 'Oh, you mean your favourite computer.'

'Yes,' answered Joan. 'Donald advised you to keep the watch that has stopped.'

'The watch that has stopped?' Joan's mother said. 'Why ever did he advise that?'

'Because he pointed out that that watch will be right once every twelve hours, but the other one will be right only once every five years."

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Why did Joan enjoy the work in her office?

2. Why did Joan think computers were better than people?

3. What did Joan's mother think about computers?.

4.Could Joan's computers think for themselves?

5.How did Joan make her computers think?

6. What did Joan's mother want a computer to do?

7.What was wrong with her first watch?

8.And what was wrong with her other watch?

9. Which watch did the computer advise her to keep?

10. Was that useful advice for Joan's mother?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 525

For thousands of years people have been interested in comets.Why?

Often because they have been afraid of them; they have thought they were signs of terrible things to come, and they were afraid they might hit the earth. In fact, small pieces ofcomets do from time to time fall on our earth in the form of meteors, some of which are quite large pieces of solid material. One can see examples of these in some museums.

What is a comet? It is a body that goes round our sun, not in a circle like the planets, but in a kind of egg shape that takes it round our solar system, or in some cases perhaps even outside it, and then back in again. The nearest any comet gets to the edge of our sun during its orbits is about 145,000 kilometres. The shortest orbit is three years, and the longest is likely to be something like a million years. There are thought

to be about 120,000 comets in our solar system.

A comet has a head and one or more long tails. What are they made of? Most scientists believe they are frozen gases and dust, but recently there has been another idea, which is that the head is made of organic material in one or more solid pieces.

How did the comets begin? We do not know, any more than we know how our solar system as a whole began.

Why are comets of scientific interest? Because it is likely that they have changed little if at all since they were first formed, so that they could give us interesting information about the beginnings of our solar system, including our earth. If they are made up of organic material, they could also give us valuable information about the beginnings of life on our earth, especially if, as some scientists now think, the small pieces that

fall on our earth can lead to organic changes in it.

Two famous scientists have thought for some time that comets bring living things to earth which are the causes of diseases that have started suddenly among people and animals

and that have not been able to be explained before. They say that recent discoveries made with very big telescopes and by the spacecraft Giotto have made this idea more likely to betrue. But there are other scientists who do not agree. To get proof of who is right, it is likely that we shall have to wait until we have spacecraft that can get much closer to a comet than they have been able to do so far.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.What is one reason why people have been afraid of comets?

2. What was another reason?

3.How does a comet go round the sun?

4Do all comets stay inside our solar system?

5.Are there differences between the orbits of different comets?

6.What did scientists use to believe comets were made of?

7. What could we find out from comets if they were made of dust and gases?

8. What may we perhaps find out from comets if they are made of organic material?

9.What may have caused some diseases that have started suddenly on our earth?

10. Have we got proof of these things yet?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 526

Mr and Mrs Jones were farmers. They had a small farm, on which they had worked very hard for ages, and they had five children. They had to look after their animals every day from sunrise to sunset, so they never had time for holidays.

But when Mrs Jones was sixty, and Mr Jones was sixty-five, they decided to let two of their children, who had stayed on on the farm after leaving school, run it for them for two weeks while they went off and had a holiday for the first time at the seaside.

They decided to go to Bournemouth in their old car, and to do some sightseeing in it if possible during their week by the sea. They booked a room in a nice hotel and studied maps to see where they would go for their sightseeing trips in the Bournemouth area.

They started out fairly early one Monday morning in the car, after milking the cows, and reached Bournemouth at eleven o'clock. There they stopped and asked a nice policeman who looked like their son the way to their hotel, and were soon registering at the desk there. Parking the car was no problem, because there was a car park just behind the hotel, and soon they were in a nice room from which they could see the sea

and the beautiful sandy beach.

After they had unpacked their cases, they discussed what to do the rest of that day. The sun was shining brightly, and the sea was calm, so they thought they would go down on to the beach. There were already a lot of other people there, bathing, playing games or just lying in the sun.

'We can wait till tomorrow for our first trip,' Mrs Jones said. 'Let's go and see Salisbury then, shall we? We've always wanted to go there.'

'All right,' said her husband, 'that's a good idea.' They changed into suitable cool cotton clothes for a walk by the sea, but as they were about to leave the room to go downstairs, Mrs Jones saw a notice on the inside of the door of their room. It said, 'Breakfast 7.00-10.00. Lunch 11.30-2.30. Tea 3.00-5.30. Dinner 6.30-12.00.'

'Look at this, dear,' she said to her husband. He looked for

a few seconds and then said in a disappointed voice, "That

doesn't allow us much time for sightseeing, does it?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Why had Mr and Mrs Jones not had time for a holiday

before?

2. Why were they able to have a holiday at last?

3. Did they plan to spend all their holiday in Bournemouth?

4. Did they know the way to their hotel before they reached Bournemouth?

5.Who told them how to get there?

6.Where did they park their car?

7.When did they decide to visit Salisbury?

8.Why did they go out of their room?

9.Why was Mr Jones disappointed when he saw the notice on their door?

10 What mistake had he made?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 527

Mrs Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

When Mrs Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs Matthews took it to be repaired.

The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly have it repaired for her. 'It'll last a long time once that's been done,' he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Mrs Matthews saying, Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modern watch.'

But Mrs Matthews had a lot of things to think about after

her father died. She had to arrange to sell his little house, and

to deal with his money affairs, write to her brother in Australia

and so on.

The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the ticket for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

'What's this?" she said to herself. 'A ticket for a watch repair? Who took a watch in to be repaired? And why didn't they give this ticket in when they went to pick it up?'

She thought back, and suddenly she remembered. 'My father's gold watch!' she thought. 'Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?' She looked at the ticket again.

'How old's this ticket?' she said to herself. It was five years old. Mrs Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. But the watch might still be there,' she thought. I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.'

She took the ticket to the jeweller's the next time she went out shopping, and the shopkeeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

'That's good,' Mrs Matthews thought. 'He didn't seem to mind about the date.'

The man came back after a few minutes and said, 'It won't be ready until Friday.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Why did the jeweller's shop in Mrs Matthews's town not

employ an expert watch repairer?

2. Why did Mrs Matthews take the gold watch to the shop?

3. Did the man in the shop think the watch was worth repairing?

4. Why did he give Mrs Matthews a ticket?

5. Why was Mrs Matthews surprised when she found the ticket in a drawer?

6. What could shops do if things were not picked up and paid for?

a) Leave things with them. b) Sell them.

7. Did the shopkeeper make trouble when Mrs Matthews took the ticket in?

8. Why did he not bring the watch to Mrs Matthews when

he came back?

9.How old was the ticket?

10.Was it reasonable for a watch to take so long to repair?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 528

Sally had lived abroad most of her life, but at last she came back to England to live. She had always loved trees and flowers, and now she aimed to buy a small house in the country with a garden. She had managed to save quite a lot of money while working in hospitals in foreign countries, so she hoped to be able to buy something nice.

'You know,' she said to her sister Alice, 'it was very difficult indeed to have an English garden in any of the countries I worked in, because of the heat and the dryness.'

Alice, who was not at all interested in gardens and preferred life indoors, pretended to be sympathetic, but she was secretly thinking that it would be nice to live in a country where one had none of the troubles she had with her garden.

But Sally continued to be keen, and soon she had found a suitable place in a nice row of houses at the edge of a small village with quite a big garden. 'I very much wanted a place near a village shop,' she said to Alice, 'chiefly for when I'm too old to drive my car any more.'

Sally moved into her new house, and began to work on the garden. It had not been very well looked after by the last owners, so that the grass on the lawn was rough and in need of a lot of work, and the whole garden was full of weeds. It was a big job to make everything look as neat as Sally wanted it to be, especially as she could not afford to employ a gardener, and she was very much against chemicals to kill weeds, as they also killed some of the birds and butterflies she loved to see.

At last she had got rid of most of the weeds, except in one corner of her garden, where she allowed them to grow freely behind a hedge because some kinds of butterflies liked them very much.

'Do you know,' she said to Alice, 'there are so few suitable weeds for certain butterflies in any of the gardens in this part of the country that they have almost disappeared here.'

'And I read in a magazine,' answered Alice, 'that some people believe that, if you think nice thoughts about yourplants and really love them, they will grow much better, but if you think bad thoughts about them, they will never get big. and strong. Unfortunately, people who believe this never explain why most of the weeds grow so well when people hate

them so much.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Why did Sally want a garden?

2. How had she managed to save money to buy a house and garden?

3. Why could she not have an English garden easily abroad?

4. Did Alice like gardens as much as her sister?

5. Why did Sally want a house near a village?

6.Was the garden in good condition when Sally bought it?

7.Did she have a gardener?

8. Why did she leave some weeds?

9. What do some people think about plants?

10 What mistake do these people make?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 529

When the steam engine was invented in the eighteenth century, it began one of the greatest revolutions that have ever happened in our world. The invention of the petrol engine at the end of the nineteenth century led to another enormous change in our lives. And the computer is almost certainly going to be no less important an invention than these engines were.

Just as there was a Stone Age, an Iron Age and so on, we have been living for centuries in a Paper Age, during which almost all information was kept and sent on paper; and so much of it is wasted after it has been used once that enormous numbers of trees have to be cut down every year to provide us with this paper. But now, with the computer, enormous

amounts of information can be stored and sent without any paper at all, using small discs or magnetic tape.

When computers began, they were very big machines,

because information had to be stored on large spools of tape.

But since then, ways have been found of storing more and

more information in smaller and smaller areas by electronic

means, until now an up-to-date computer can be so small that

one can carry it in one's briefcase.

Computers have also made it possible to do very difficult calculations very much faster than any earlier machine could. One has to programme one's computer correctly, of course, feeding into it the facts one wants it to work on, and telling it what one wants it to do with them, but after that, the process can be very fast.

Computers also allow one to send information to others anywhere in the world, using ordinary telephones, and to receive information from them. One can send a very long message more quickly from England to Australia, for example, than from one's house to someone in one's garden, and the computer at the other end will remember it, ready for printing out when one wants.

Computers are not only used for writing; they can produce diagrams and pictures, and they can be used for playing games. One now sees them at airports and railway stations, in hotels and restaurants; in fact, almost everywhere that people gather. A lot of people, mostly young ones, also have their own computers on which they can play games.

Computers need programmes, sometimes also called software. These tell the computer what to do, and the great prog- ress that is being made in the field of computers is not only in the hardware - the machines themselves but also in the art of programming. Clever people are finding more and more things for computers to do, but the people who produce the programmes that make these things possible still have to be as clever as or cleverer than the programmes they produce.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What eighteenth-century invention greatly changed the world?

2.What brought about another great revolution at the end

of the nineteenth century?

3. How does the computer compare with the steam engine

and the petrol engine?

4. Why is the Paper Age doing a lot of harm?

5. What does the computer store information on?

6.Are computers getting bigger or smaller?

7. How can one send messages quickly from England to Australia?

8.Where can one find machines for computer games?

9. What is software?

10. Who makes the software?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 530

Greenville was a small town in the middle of England. Most of it was full of houses and shops, but in the middle of the town there was a small park, which contained, among other things, a playground for small children. The park had always been closed at six every evening, and this had meant that the playground closed at that time too, but now the town councilwas discussing whether, in the summer, the playground should be left open till later..

There was a lot of discussion about this among the members of the town council. A few of them thought that children should not be encouraged to stay out late in the evenings; others said that it was healthy for children to have a change from television, to get some fresh air, and to be able to play in the playground instead of perhaps doing things that were either dangerous or harmful.

'I'm ashamed to say,' said one man, 'that bored children often don't behave themselves. Some of them go about doing damage, or they fight and get into trouble. They break windows and paint rude signs on walls, and perhaps start taking drugs. It's much better for them to be given swings and slides and other things that interest them in a healthy way,

isn't it?'

'But what about the danger of a child being taken away by some horrible man?' asked another member of the town council anxiously. 'One hears about it now and again in other towns, you know!'

'Yes, I agree with you,' the first man said. "That's a good argument. Well, parents would have to go with their children in that case.'

Then another of the members spoke. 'Have any of you ever gone to the playground on a summer evening?' she asked. 'If you had, you would have seen that there are groups of children playing there after six every evening.'

'But the playground isn't open then!' a man said.

'I know, the woman answered, but it's no mystery that there are plenty of small holes in the fence round the play-ground through which the children can climb. And when they have to get in that way, they're much more eager to do so than if the gates are open. It's much more exciting for them to do things they think are forbidden, you see, and it does no harm, does it?'

The other members of the town council laughed, and they all agreed that the gates should continue to be closed at six for the children's sake, so as not to spoil their fun.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What was in the small park in Greenville?

2. What time were the town council thinking of closing the park?

3. Why did some of the members not want to change the time?

4. Why did others want the park to remain open later?

5. What danger did one member of the town council see if the park was left open later?

6. How did another member suggest this could be avoided?

7. At what time had one member seen children playing in the

playground?

8. How had they got in?

9. Why was that a good thing?

10. Why did the town council agree to continue closing the

park at six?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 531

Mr Jones's shop sold food. Mr Jones and a young man worked there. The young man's name was George.

A man came into the shop on Monday. He was a funny man. Mr Jones was in the office. It was behind the shop. The funny man looked at George and said, "I want a small table, please."

George said, "We don't sell tables in this shop. We sell food."

The man smiled and answered, "A small, brown table." He took a picture out of his bag and showed it to George. It was a picture of a small, brown table.

George put his mouth near the man's ear and said, "We do not have tables in this shop! Food! Not tables!"

The man smiled and answered, "That's good. Thank you." Then he sat down on a chair and waited.

George was not happy. He went into the office and spoke to Mr Jones. Then he and Mr Jones came out again.

Mr Jones was angry. He looked at the man and said. "What

do you want?"

The man smiled and answered, "I want a loaf of brown bread, please. Haven't you got any bread in your shop?"

Mr Jones said, "Yes, we have." He looked at George, and then he went and got a loaf of brown bread from a big box and gave it to the man.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.Did Mr Jones work in George's shop?

2.Who worked in Mr Jones's shop?

3.Did the shop sell tables, or food?

4.Did the funny man ask George for some food?

5.Did the funny man ask George for a table?

6.Did George show him a table?

7.Whose office did George go into then?

8.Did Mr Jones speak to the funny man?

9.Was Mr Jones happy, or angry?

10.Did the funny man ask Mr Jones for a table, or some food?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 532

Gladys was at school in a small, quiet town in England. She was sixteen years old, and her father and mother were poor, and their house was very small.

Maisie was Gladys's friend. She went to that school as well. Gladys said, "Maisie, I'm going to find a very rich man and I'm going to marry him. Then I'm going to have a beautiful house and a large garden, and a lot of clothes, and a lot of money."

Maisie smiled and said, “Where are you going to find a very rich man, Gladys? There aren't any in our town."

But Gladys was a very pretty girl. Her eyes were blue, and her hair was black and soft. She went to London, and then she went to America. She found a tall, very rich man there, and she married him. She was twenty-two years old then.

Then she and her husband went to England. They went to Gladys's old house, and Maisie came there.

Gladys said, "I've married a very rich man, Maisie, and I've got a beautiful house and a large garden and four gardeners. And I've bought a lot of clothes and I have money as well. My husband's got a plane too, and he flies it!"

Maisie said, "A lot of people have got planes and fly them, Gladys."

"In their house?" Gladys asked.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.Were Gladys's father and mother rich?

2.Did Gladys want to work in her small, quiet town?

3.Who did Gladys want to marry?

4.Were there any very rich men in Gladys's town?

5.Did Gladys marry in London, or in America?

6.Was her husband a short man?

7.Where did Maisie see Gladys again?

8.Whose house did they meet in?

9.Who flew the plane in this story?

10.Where did he or she fly it?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 533

Alan Smith's father bought him a small shop, and Alan sold milk, butter, cheese, eggs and other things in it. His shop was in a small town, and it was open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday morning, but it was shut on Sunday afternoon and on Monday.

Alan went to some farms on Monday and bought their best butter and cheese and eggs from the farmers, but he bought his milk in the town. A truck brought it to his shop in the morning. Alan and his wife worked in the shop, and they sold a lot of their food, because it was good and clean.

A fat woman came into the shop on Saturday. She bought some eggs and some butter, and then she said to Alan's wife, "Your eggs and your butter are dear today. Why are Saturday and Sunday dearer than Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?"

Alan's wife was unhappy. She looked at the fat woman, and then she looked at Alan, but she did not give an answer. Then Alan smiled and said, "Our food is not dearer on Saturday and Sunday! It is cheaper on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!"

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.Was Alan's shop open on Monday?

2.Was Alan's shop shut on Saturday?

3. Was Alan's shop open or shut on Sunday morning?

4 Who sold Alan cheese?

5. Who brought Alan's butter to his shop?

6. Who brought milk to Alan's shop?

7. Why did a lot of people buy food from Alan?

8. Who answered the fat woman's question?

9.Was the answer an angry one, or a nice one?

10.Was the food in the shop dearer on Friday or on Saturday?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Text 534

Mr and Mrs Brown had two daughters and two sons. Both the

daughters married, and then both the sons married too. Soon

Mr and Mrs Brown had a granddaughter, and then they had

two grandsons. They were very happy.

Then one of their daughters had another baby, and she tele-

phoned her mother, "Please come and help with your new

granddaughter." Mrs Brown went quickly, but Mr Brown

stayed at home, because he was nearer his job there. But he

said, "I'll come on Friday evening, and I'll stay till Monday

morning."

On Friday evening, after work, Mr Brown got into a train.

He was very happy. "I'm going to see my new granddaughter

now," he said.

There were three empty places in the train. There was an old

man beside one empty place, and Mr Brown went to him and

said nicely, "Are you a grandfather?"

"Yes," the man answered, "I have three granddaughters."

Mr Brown went to the second empty place. There was a nice

woman beside that. Mr Brown said to her, "Are you a

grandmother?"

The woman answered, "Yes, I have two granddaughters and

two grandsons."

Mr Brown went to the third empty place. There was a man

beside that, and Mr Brown said to him, "And are you a

grandfather?"

"No, I'm not," the man answered.

Mr Brown smiled happily and said, "That's good." He sat

down in the empty place and said to the man kindly, "Now

I'll tell you about my granddaughters and grandsons."

1 Did Mr and Mrs Brown have any children?

a) Yes, they had four. b) Yes, they had two.

2 Did their children marry?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, all of them did. c) Yes,

two of them did.

How many granddaughters did Mr and Mrs Brown have?

a) One. b) Two.

Did they have any grandsons?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they had two.

Who went and helped their daughter with her new baby?

a) Mr Brown did. b) Mrs Brown did.

6 Did Mr Brown go with his wife?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

7 Why?

a) Because he was ill.

b) Because he had a job near his home.

8 When did Mr Brown go to his daughter's house?

a) On Friday evening. b) On Monday morning.

9 How did he go?

a) In a train. b) In his car.

10 What did he do all the time in the train?

a) He talked about his granddaughters and grandsons.

b) He listened to stories about other people's grand-

daughters and grandsons.

Text 535

Joe was the son of a farmer. His father's farm was poor, and

Joe worked on it for a long time, but then his father died, and

Joe said, '"I needn't stay here now. I'll sell this farm and buy

one in a better place. Then I'll soon be rich."

He bought a farm in the east of the country, but then his new

neighbours said to him, "The weather's often very bad here.

The wind's very strong, and it breaks windows and doors. You

must build a room under the ground, and then you and your

family can go down there, and you'l be safe from the wind."

So Joe built a room under the ground. It was a lot of work,

because the ground was hard.

But after that, the weather was good for a very long time.

There was no wind, and Joe spoke angrily. He said, "Why did

I listen to my neighbours? I didn't have to make that room

under the ground. The wind never blows strongly here."

But then one day there was a very strong wind, and Joe and

his family had to go down into their room under the ground.

They were there for a long time. Then the wind stopped, and

they came up. All the windows and doors in their house were

broken.

Joe was not angry about his work now. He smiled happily

and said, "Ah! ľ'm glad I built that room!"

1 What was Joe's father?

a) He was a farmer. b) He was a teacher.

2 Was his father rich?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

3 Why did Joe leave his father's farm?

a) Because the wind was very strong there. b) Because

he wanted a farm in a better place.

4 Why did he need a room under the ground?

a) Because the doors and windows of his farm were

broken. b) Because there were very strong winds in that

place.

5 Did the wind often blow strongly after that?

a) No, it did not. b) Yes, it did.

Was Joe happy about that?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

Why did he go down into the room under the ground one

day?

a) Because the weather was very cold. b) Because there

was a very strong wind.

8 Who went with him?

a) His family did. b) His new neighbours did.

9 What did the wind do?

b) It

a) It broke the windows and doors of Joe's house.

went down into the room under the ground.

10 Was Joe sad then?

a). No, he was happy. b) Yes, he was.

Text 536

Lynn was five years old. She had a lot of little friends. They

were older, and they were at school. These children told Lynn

nice stories about school, so Lynn wanted to go there too.

Then one day her mother said, "You can go to school now,

Lynn," and Lynn was very happy.

She was the youngest child in the school, and on the first

day, her mother stayed at school with her. But on the second

day, Lynn said to her, "You can go home now, Mummy."!

Lynn's mother was happy, but she was sad too, because

Lynn did not need her all the time now.

Lynn was very happy at school, and she learnt a lot of things

there. Her mother always said, "What have you learnt today,

Lynn?" and Lynn told her.

One day, Lynn came back from school and said to her

mother, "Miss Richards (she was Lynn's teacher) told us some

nice stories today, Mummy. The best was about Ulysses. He

fought against the ... the ... er . . .

"The Trojans," her mother said.

“Oh, yes, that's right," Lynn answered. "The Trojans. And

then Ulysses went back in his ship with some other men. He

went to see his wife . . . er . . . his wife ..."

"Penelope," Lynn's mother said.

Lynn stopped and looked at her mother. "Mummy," she

said, "has someone told you this story already?"

Did Lynn have any friends?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

Did they go to school?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

Why did Lynn want to go to school too?

a) Because her friends told her nice stories about it.

b) Because her friends were older.

Who was the youngest in the school?

a) Lynn's mother was. b) Lynn was.

Did Lynn's mother stay with her?

a) No, she didn't. b) Yes, she stayed with her for one

day. c) Yes, she stayed with her for two days.

6 Was Lynn's mother happy or sad then?

a) She was happy. b) She was happy and sad. c) She

was sad.

Who was Lynn's teacher?

a) Lynn's Mummy. b) Miss Richards. c) Ulysses.

Who fought against the Trojans?

a) Lynn's Mummy. b) Miss Richards. c) Ulysses.

Who was Ulysses' wife?

a) Miss Richards. b) Penelope.

Did Lynn's mother know the story about Ulysses?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

Text 537

Mr and Mrs Young's small house was in a village, but their

children's houses were in a town. Then Mr Young died. Mrs

Young was eighty-five years old, and her children said to her,

"Come and live in the town near us, Mother. Or come and live

in one of our houses." But she said, "No, I'm not going to go

to the town. I'm going to remain here."

Her children were not happy. They said, "There are a lot of

burglars here now. Maybe one of them will come into her

house and take her money and her nice things."

One Sunday one of her daughters went to Mrs Young's

house. She saw a key on the ground at the side of the front

door. "Mother!" she said, "You mustn't put your key there.

That's the worst place. Burglars can see it and open the door!"

Mrs Young smiled. "Try to open the door with the key," she

said. Her daughter did this. The key made a lot of noise, but

it did not open the door.

Then Mrs Young said, "I hear the key in the lock, and then

I get one of my brother's old guns, go out of the back door and

creep up behind the burglars."

1 Did Mr and Mrs Young's children live with them?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

2 Did Mrs Young go and live with her children?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

3 Why were her children not happy then?

a) Because a burglar came into their mother's house.

b) Because there were a lot of burglars in that place.

4 What did one of Mrs Young's daughters see one day?

a) A key. b) A lock.

5 Where was it?

a) In the lock. b) Near Mrs Young's door.

6 Why is that not a good place for your key?

a) Because people can see it and open the door with it.

b) Because you will lose it.

Where did Mrs Young's daughter put the key?

a) In the house. b) In the lock.

Did Mrs Young's daughter open the door with it?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

9 Why didn't the door open?

a) Because the key made a lot of noise. b) Because the

key was the wrong one.

10 What did. Mrs Young always do when she heard the key

in the lock?

a) She crept up behind the burglars with a gun. b) She

made a lot of noise.

Text 538

Billy is twelve years old, and his sister is fifteen. It was

Saturday yesterday, and Billy's father gave him fifty pence.

There is a big tree in Billy's garden, and he climbed it and sat

in it. He likes that place in the tree very much.

Then Billy looked at his fifty pence and said, "I'm going to

go to the market tomorrow on my bicycle, and I'm going to buy

some seeds with this money. Then I'm going to plant them

under this tree. I'm going to have a lot of flowers and fruit and

plants, and I'm going to sell them.

"A lot of people are going to come to my garden every day,

and they're going to buy my nice flowers and fruit and plants,

and in the end I'm really going to have a lot of money. Then

I'm going to grow up and go to university, and I'm going to

be a doctor.

"Then my sister will come to me and say, 'Doctor, Doctor,

I've broken my left arm! Please help me!' And I'm going to set

her arm."

The sky was blue, the weather was hot, and Billy was tired

after that, so he went to sleep in the tree. But then he fell out

of the tree and broke his left arm. His mother took him to the

doctor, and she set it.

1 Who is older, Billy or his sister?

a) Billy is. b) His sister is.

Where did Billy sit yesterday?

a) In a tree. b) In his house.

Where did Billy want to go on Sunday?

a) To a big tree. b) To the market.

4 Why did he want to go there?

a) Because he wanted a bicycle. b) Because he wanted

some seeds.

5 What did he want to do with the seeds?

a) He wanted to plant them. b) He wanted to sell them.

6 Why did he want to grow flowers and fruit and plants?

a) Because he wanted money. b) Because he wanted to

buy them.

7 What did he want to be?

a) A teacher at a university. b) A doctor.

8 What did he want to do to his sister then?

a) He wanted to come to her. b) He wanted to set her

arm.

9 Why did Billy fall out of the tree?

a) Because he was tired. b) Because he went to sleep.

c) Because the weather was hot.

10 Who set his arm?

a) His mother did. b) His sister did. c) The doctor did.

Text 539

In the last fifty years, a lot of people have left Europe and have

gone to live in Australia. One of them was a Hungarian man.

He lived in Australia for a long time, and after that, he had a

lot of good friends. He always said to them, "Australia's beauti-

ful, but Hungary's beautiful too."

Then one year he said, "I'm going to go back to Hungary

now to visit my old home." All of his new friends said to him,

"We want to go with you, because Hungary's a beautiful coun-

try, and we want to see it too."

The Hungarian Australian took all his friends from Sydney

to Rome in a big plane, and then they went from Rome to

Budapest in a train, because they wanted to see the mountains,

and the villages, and the towns.

They stayed in Budapest for four days, and they liked it very

much. One day they went to the zoo in Budapest and saw two

kangaroos there.

The Australians were very happy, because kangaroos comè

from Australia. They said to the animals, "Come here, old

friends! Come and see your Australian brothers!" But the

kangaroos did not move.

But then the Hungarian Australian spoke to the animals in

Hungarian. "Come here!" he said, and both the kangaroos ran

to him.

The other Australians laughed and said, "Look at that!

They're Australian, but they only know Hungarian!”

1 Where is Hungary?

a) In Australia. b) In Europe.

2 Did the Hungarian man stay in Australia for a long time?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

3 Did he have any friends in Australia then?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

4 Why did he want to go back to Hungary?

a) Because Australia is beautiful. b) To visit his old

home.

5 Why did his friends want to see Hungary?

a) Because it is beautiful. b) To see their old homes.

6 Did they go to Hungary in a ship?

a) No, they went in a plane, and then in a train. b) Yes,

they did.

7 Where did they find a zoo?

a) In Budapest. b) In Rome.

8 What did they see in the zoo?

a) Some kangaroos. b) Some old friends.

9 Why didn't the kangaroos come to them?

a) Because they did not move. b) Because they did not

understand English.

10 Why did the kangaroos only understand Hungarian?

a) Because they came from Australia. b) Because they

lived in Hungary.

Text 540

There was a big flood near our house in spring. The water came

down from the mountain and the hills, the river came up and

up, and a lot of the houses on the low land were soon under

the water.

The Red Cross sent some men, and they brought food and

dry clothes, and took some people to higher ground in boats.

One old man lives in a small house near our river. He is a

poor man, and there aren't any other houses near his. There

was a lot of rain one night, and in the morning the old man

looked out of his window and saw the flood. The water was

nearly up to his bedroom window.

The water came up and up, and the old man went to the top

floor of his house. Then the flood was worse, and he went up

on to the roof.

"What am I going to do?" he said. "The water's very deep,

and I can't swim."

But after three hours the old man saw a boat. It came slowly

near, and the old man saw two young men in it.

"We've come from the Red Cross," one of the young men

called, "and ..

"I'm sorry," the old man answered, "but I've just given you

some money this month, and I haven't got much. I'm a poor

man."

1 Where did the flood come from?

a) A spring. b) The mountain and hills.

2 Where did the water come up from?

a) A lot of the houses. b) The river.

3 Who brought food and dry clothes?

a) Men from the Red Cross. b) People on higher

ground.

4 Is the poor old man's house near a lot of the houses on the

low land?

a) No, it is not. b) Yes, it is.

When did the old man see the flood?

a) In the morning. b) One night.

6 Why did the old man go up on to his roof?

a) Because he wanted to look for the men from the Red

Cross. b) Because the water was very high.

7 What did the old man do then?

a) He swam to the higher land. b) He waited.

8 Who came then?.

a) An old man in a boat. b) Two young men.

9 Did the young men want money for the Red Cross?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

10 What did they want?

a) They wanted to look at the old man.

to take the old man to the high ground.

b) They wanted

Text 541

Mrs Walker has one son. His name is Harry. When he was four

years old, he had a child's bicycle. It was red and white, and it

had small wheels at its sides, so it always stayed up.

Then Harry did not have a bicycle for a long time. Now he

is twelve years old, and he wants a bicycle.

Mrs Walker goes to work by car every day, and she takes

Harry with her to his school, and brings him back when he

finishes. His school is on one side of the town, and Mrs

Walker's office is on the other side.

"A lot of my friends have bicycles, and they ride to school

on them," Harry said to his mother one day. "Their mothers

don't need to take them to school and bring them home again."

But his mother said to him, "Wait, Harry. Your father and

I are going to buy you a nice bicycle soon.'

Then yesterday Mrs Walker stopped her car at a red light and

looked at Harry. "Harry," she said to him, "your father and

I are going to give you a bicycle next month, but first I'm going

to ask you some questions. Now, look at those traffic lights. Do

you know their meaning?"

"Oh, yes, I do!" Harry answered happily. "Red is 'Stop',

green is 'Go', and yellow is 'Go very quickly.'

Is Harry a boy, or a man?

a) He is a boy. b) He is a man.

2 Has his mother got a car?

a) No, she has not. b) Yes, she has.

3 Has she got a job?

a) No, she has not. b) Yes, she has.

4 Is Harry's school near her office?

a) No, it is not. b) Yes, it is.

5 Has Harry got a bicycle now?

a) No, he has not. b) Yes, he has.

6 What does he want?

a) A bicycle. b) A car.

7 What do a lot of his friends do?

a) They drive to school in their cars.

school on their bicycles.

b) They ride to

8. Where did Mrs Walker stop her car yesterday?

a) At a bicycle shop. b) At some traffic lights.

9 What did she ask Harry then?

a) The meaning of her questions. b) The meaning of the

traffic lights.

10 Did Harry know the right meaning of the yellow light?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Text 542

Harold Scott sold cheap shoes. He had a small lorry, and he

bought the shoes from the factory and took them from one

house to another and tried to sell them to people.

He sold a lot of his shoes in small villages, because there

were not many shops there, and people did not want to go to

the town and buy their shoes there.

One day Harold drove along the street of a village and

stopped in front of one of the houses. There was a small boy

beside the door. Harold opened the window of his lorry and

called to the boy, "Hello. Is your mother at home?"

The boy looked at him. Then he answered, "Yes, she is.”

"That's good," Harold said, and he smiled. He got out of his

lorry, took some shoes from the back and went to the door of

the house. He knocked at the door and then he waited, but the

door did not open.

After a minute, Harold knocked at the door again and waited

for two minutes, but again the door did not open.

Then Harold looked at the small boy and said in an angry

voice, "Your mother is not at home."

"She is," the small boy answered.

"Then why hasn't she opened the door?" Harold asked.

"Because this isn't my house," the small boy answered.

1 What did Harold do with his lorry?

a) He carried his shoes in it.

houses in it.

2 Who bought a lot of his shoes?

a) People in shops.

b) People in small villages.

c) People in the town.

3 What did Harold see in front of one house in a village?

a) A lorry. b) A small boy.

4 What did Harold do to the boy?

a) He called to him. b) He took him in his lorry.

5 Why did Harold take some shoes out of his lorry then?

a) Because he wanted to sell them to the boy. b) Because

he wanted to sell them to the boy's mother.

6 Did the boy's mother open the door?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

7 What did Harold do then?

a) He knocked again. b) He opened the door.

8 Was he happy then?

a) No, he was not.

b) Yes, he was.

9 Was the boy's mother in the house?

a) No, she was not.

b) Yes, she was.

10 Why?

a) Because she was at the shops. b) Because it was not

her house.

b) He took things from

Text 543

Dick lived in England. In January he said to his wife, "I'm

going to fly to New York next week, because I've got some

work there."

"Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked.

"I don't know yet," Dick answered.

"Please send me your address from there in a telegram," his

wife said.

"All right," Dick answered.

He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel

in the centre of the city. He put his things in his room and then

he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in

it.

In the evening he did not have any work, so he went to a

cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going

to go back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."

He found a taxi, and the driver said, "Where do you want

to go?" But Dick did not remember the name and address of

his hotel.

"Which hotel are my things in?" he said. "And what am I

going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know,

so Dick got out and went into a telegraph office. There he sent

his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me

my address at this telegraph office."

1 Why did Dick fly to New York?

a) Because his home was there. b) Because he had work

there.

2 Why did his wife want a telegram from him?

a) Because he did not know his address yet. b) Because

she wanted to go to New York too.

3 Where did Dick stay in New York?

a) With a friend in the centre of the city. b) In a hotel.

4 Did he remember to send his wife a telegram?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

5 Did he work that evening?

a) Yes, in a cinema. b) No, he did not.

6 Where did he want to go at nine o'clock?

a) To a cinema. b) To his hotel.

7 Did he want to walk to it?

a) No, he wanted to go in a taxi. b) Yes, he did.

8 What did the driver of the taxi want to know?

a) The name and address of a telegraph office.

name and address of Dick's hotel.

9 Did Dick tell him?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

10 Who sent him the name and address of his hotel?

a) A telegraph office. b) His wife.

b) The

Text 544

Miss Miller lived beside a church in a small street in a town..

She did not have a car. On Friday she always walked to the bus

stop, and then she went to the market and bought food for the

next week. There were usually a lot of people in the bus, but

Miss Miller always found a seat.

One of the houses at the corner of Miss Miller's street was

empty for a long time, but then a family came and lived in it.

There was a man and his wife and two children. The children

went to school in the bus in the morning.

On Friday Miss Miller went to the house and visited the chil-

dren's mother. She said to her, "Good morning. My name's

Jane Miller, and I live beside the church in this street. I'm going

to the market now. Do you need any food?"

"Good morning," the woman said to her visitor, "you're

very kind. My name's Mary Adams. Yes, I need food for my

lunch today and for our supper tonight. And I need some fish

for the cat. I don't know the way to the market yet. Can I come

with you?"

"Please do," Jane answered. Mary put her coat on, and the

two women went out and walked along to the bus stop. They

waited there, and Jane said to her new friend, "There's a bus

at five minutes to ten. It's always full, but I get a seat."

"Oh? Is that easy?" Mary asked.

Jane smiled and answered, "Wait and you'll see."

The bus came, and the two women got in. It was full, but

Jane said, "Perhaps those two very handsome men will give

us their seats."

Six men stood up quickly, and both the women went and sat

down in the nearest seats.

questions an

Did Miss Miller go to the market in her car?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

Why?

a) Because she always walked there.

b) Because she did not have a car.

Was the bus usually nearly empty, or nearly full?

a) Nearly empty. b) Nearly full.

Why did Jane Miller visit Mary Adams's house?

b) Because she

a) Because she wanted to help her.

wanted to get some food from her.

Did Mary need food?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

Why didn't she go to the market earlier that day?

a) Because she did not need any food. b) Because she

did not know the way.

7 Who went with her?

a) Her cat did. b) Jane did.

Where did they walk to?

a) To the bus stop. b) To the market.

Were there any empty seats in the bus?

a) No, there were not. b) Yes, there were a lot. c) Yes,

there were two.

10 Did Mary and Jane get seats?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

Text 545

Three young men were playing with a gun in a street in a quiet

area of the town after dark when one of them fired it by mis-

take without aiming it at anything The bullet broke a window

in an old lady's house.

The young men made off at once when they saw the damage

they had done, but the old lady looked out of a window when

she heard the explosion, and she recognized one of them as the

son of a man and woman who lived not far from her.

The old lady complained to the police, and a detective came

to her house. The old lady gave him a detailed account of

everything that had happened, and then the detective asked

her if she knew where the young man lived. The old lady told

him that too, so the detective went to the young man's house.

He and his companions tried to hide, but the detective found

them and the gun and took them to the police station.

There his chief officer questioned the young men to find out

which of them owned the gun, but none of them was willing

to say. The young man who owned the gun did not dare to

admit that he did, because he did not have a licence for it.

At last the chief officer decided to put an end to the conver-

sation, so he turned to the detective and demanded to know

whether he had got an officer's permission to take the gun

away from the young man who owned it.

The detective felt anxious when he heard this question. "No,

sir," he answered nervously, "I didn't get it."

"In that case," the officer declared angrily, "you were quite

wrong to ake it away from him. You'd better return it im-

mediately, or there'll be trouble!"

This made the young men smile happily at each other, and

as soon as the detective held the gun out and said, "Here you

are," one of them put his hand out in order to get it back.

That is how the officer finally discovered whom the gun be-

longed to.

1 What broke the old lady's window?

a) A bullet. b) A gun. c) Some fire.

Where did the young man live?

a) Near the old lady.

b) Near the police station.

Where did the detective take the young men?

a) To the next street. b) To the old lady's house. c) To

the police station.

Who asked the young men questions at the police station?

a) An officer. b) The old lady. c) The detective.

Did the young men say who owned the gun?

a) No. b) Yes, one of them did. c) Yes, they did.

Did the young man who owned the gun

have a licence f

it?

a) No, he didn't. b) Yes, he did.

7 What did the officer ask the detective?

a) "Did you get an officer's permission to take the gun

away?" b) "Have you got a licence for this gun?"

What did the officer tell the detective to do?

a) To get a licence. b) To give the gun back.

Why did he tell the detective to do this?

a) Because he did not like him. b) Because he wanted to

find the young man who owned the gun.

10 How did one of the young men show that he owned the

gun?

a) By holding the gun out. b) By putting out his hand

to take it. c) By smiling happily.

Text 546

Mr Gray travelled a lot on business. He sold machines of

various kinds to farmers. It was not really a very exciting job,

but Mr Gray had always been interested in farming, and he was

quite satisfied with his life.

He had a big car, and usually enjoyed driving it long dis-

tances, but he was quite satisfied to go by train sometimes too,

especially when the weather was bad. He was a little frightened

of driving in rain or snow, and it was less tiring to sit com-

fortably in a train and look out of the window without being

worried about how one was going to get to the next place.

One of Mr Gray's problems was often where to stay when

he reached some small place in the country. He did not expect

great comfort and wonderful food, but he found it annoying

when he was given a cold room, and there was no hot water

or good food after a long and tiring day.

Late one winter evening, Mr Gray arrived at a small railway

station. The journey by train that day had not been at all in-

teresting, and Mr Gray was cold and tired and hungry. He was

looking forward to a simple but satisfying meal by a brightly

burning fire, and then a hot bath and comfortable bed.

While he was walking to the taxi rank, he said to a local man

who was also walking there, "As this is my first visit to this part

of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to find out about

hotels before I left home, I would very much like to know how

many you have here."

The local man answered, "We have two."

"And which of the two would you advise m

Gray asked then.

to go to?" Mr

The local man scratched his head for a few moments and

then answered, "Well, it's like this: whichever one you go to,

you'll be sorry you didn't go to the other."

1 Why did Mr Gray travel a lot?

a) Because of his work. b) For pleasure.

2 What was his business?

a) He was a farmer. b) He sold machines.

3 Did he enjoy his work?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

4 How did he travel?

a) Always by train. b) Always in his car. c) Sometimes

in his car, and sometimes by train.

5 Did he usually like driving?

a) No, he did not, because he was a little frightened.

b) Yes, he always did.

weather was bad.

Yes, he did, except when the

Did he always stay in expensive hotels?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Why did he speak to a local man one winter evening?

a) Because he wanted to find a hotel. b) Because he

wanted to visit that part of the country.

8 How many hotels were there near there?

a) Too many. b) Two.

Did the local man tell Mr Gray which one to go to?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Why? a) Because both of them were equally bad.

b) Because he did not know either of them.

Text 547

Mrs Hammond was old and blind, but she was determined to

do everything for herself. She even used to go for walks alone

from her cottage once a day for exercise and fresh air, and

found her way by touching things with her white stick. She

learnt where everything was, so she never lost her way.

But then one day some men came and cut down

some of the familiar pine trees at the side of one of the

paths which she followed. When she reached that place that

evening, she did not feel the trees with her stick, so she was

in difficulties.

She stopped for a minute and listened, but she did not hear

any other people, so she went ahead for a kilometre or two,

and then she heard water beneath her.

"Water?" she said aloud, and paused. "Am I lost? I suppose

so. I must be on a bridge, I suppose, and there must be a river

under me. I've been told that there's a river in this part of the

country, but I don't know its exact position. How am I going

to get back to my cottage from here?"

All at once she heard a man's friendly voice near her. It said,

"Excuse me, can I help you?"

"How kind of you!" Mrs Hammond answered. "Yes, please.

I'm lost. Some of the trees which I follow when I go for my

walk every evening had been removed today, and if I hadn't

been lucky enough to come across you, I don't know what I'd

have done. Can you please help me to get home?"

"Certainly," the man answered. "Where do you live?"

Mrs Hammond told him, and they began walking. The man

took Mrs Hammond to her cottage, and she invited him in and

gave him some coffee and a piece of cake. She told the man how

grateful she was that she had met him.

"Don't thank me," he answered. "I want to thank you."

"Thank me?" Mrs Hammond said. "Whatever for?"

"Well," the man answered quietly, "I was balanced on the

edge of that bridge for ages in the dark, because I was trying

to make up my mind to throw myself into the river and drown

myself. But I'm not going to do it now."

1 Why was the fact that Mrs Hammond went for walks alone

unusual?

a) Because she was blind. b) Because she was old.

Why did she go out every day?

a) Because it was good for her. b) To work.

Why did she usually not lose her way?

a) Because she always went for walks alone. b) Because

she knew where everything was.

4 Why did she lose her way one day?

a) Because she lost her white stick. b) Because some

trees were not there.

5 What did she do then?

a) She continued her walk. b) She stopped for a minute

and then went home.

6 When did she stop again?

a) When she got to her cottage from there. b) When she

heard water.

7 How did she get home?

a) A man helped her. b) She followed a river which she

had been told about.

8 Whom did Mrs Hammond give some coffee to?

a) A man who visited her in her cottage. b) The man

who had helped her.

9 Who thanked whom then?

a) Mrs Hammond thanked the man only. b) The man

thanked Mrs Hammond only. c) Mrs Hammond and the

man thanked each other.

10 Why was the man so grateful?

a) Because he had been hungry and thirsty. b) Because

Mrs Hammond had saved him from killing himself.

Text 548

Jim lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years old,

and then he got a job in the office of a big factory in another

town, so he left home. He found a comfortable little flat which

had two rooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom, and he lived

there on his own.

At first he cleaned it himself, but he did not want to have

to go on doing this, so he determined to find someone else to

do it instead of him. He asked a lot of his fellow workers at the

factory what they did about this, and at last one of the men

said, "Oh, Mrs Roper comes and cleans my flat regularly. She

washes the dishes, irons my shirts and keeps the place neat

and tidy and so on. I'll introduce her to you, if you like. She's

a charming old lady. She does hèr best, but she hasn't got

much energy."

"Well, you'd better ask her to come and see me, please," Jim

answered. So the next evening Mrs Roper came to see him, and

she agreed with pleasure to come to his flat every morning for

an hour.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, he looked

at the mirror in his bedroom and thought, "That mirror looks

very dusty. Mrs Roper's forgotten to clean it. I can write on it

with my finger." He wrote a message in the dust: "I'm cough-

ing whenever I breathe because everything in this room is very

dusty."

He came home at 7 o'clock that evening, and when he had

eaten his supper, he went into his bedroom and looked at the

mirror. "That silly woman still hasn't cleaned it!" he said to

himself. "All it needs is a cloth!"

But then he bent down and saw a bottle in front of the

mirror. "I didn't put that bottle there," he thought. "Mrs Roper

must have left it." He picked the bottle up and looked at it

carefully.

"She's written some words on it," he said to himself. He read

the words. They were: "Cough medicine".

Exercise 1

Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 Why did Jim leave home?

a) Because he wanted a more comfortable flat. b) Because

his job was in another town.

2 Who cleaned the flat?

a) A lot of the people in the factory. b) Jim.

3 Why did he try to find someone else to do it?

a) Because he did not want to do it himself. b) Because

the people did not clean it properly.

4 How did he find someone?

a) He asked other people. b) Mrs Roper introduced

someone to him.

How many hours a day did Mrs Roper work for Jim?

a) Four. b) One.

6 Was Jim happy with Mrs Roper's work?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

Why?

a) Because he coughed whenever he breathed. b) Because

she did not clean his bedroom properly.

8 How did Jim let Mrs Roper know what he thought?

a) He wrote her a message on a piece of paper. b) He

wrote something on his mirror.

Was the mirror clean that evening?

a) No, it was not. b) Yes, it was.

10 How did Jim know that Mrs Roper had read his message?

a) Because she had cleaned the mirror. b) Because she

had left him a bottle of cough medicine.

Text 549

Mathew lived in a big city, and his hair was always cut by the

same hairdresser. Mathew went to him once a month. He was

allowed one hour for his lunch every day, and on the mornings

when his hair was going to be cut, he made himself some sand-

wiches to eat in the hairdresser's.

The hairdresser had a very small shop near Mathew's office,

and he worked alone, but he always cut Mathew's hair exactly

as Mathew liked it, and while he was doing it, the two men

talked about football or cricket.

But the hairdresser was an old man, and one day, when

Mathew was sitting in his chair, and his hair was being cut as

usual, the old man said to him, "Mathew, I'm going to be sixty-

five years old next month, so I'm going to retire. I'm going to sell

my shop to a young han who wants to be a hairdresser. The

shop's being paid for by the young man's father."

Mathew was very sad to hear this, because he enjoyed talk-

ing to the old man, and he was also worried that his hair would

not be cut as well by the new young man as it had been for so

many years by his old friend.

He went to the shop again the next month, and the new man

was there. He cut Mathew's hair, but he did it very badly.

The next month, Mathew went into the shop again. The

young man asked him how he would like his hair cut, and

Mathew answered, "Please cut it very short on the right side,

but leave it as it is on the left. It must cover my ear. On top, cut

all the hair away in the middle, but leave a piece at the front

which can hang down to my chin."

The young man was very surprised when he heard this. "But

sir," he said, "I can't cut your hair like that!"

"Why not?" Mathew asked. "That's how you cut it last

time."

Did the old hairdresser employ any others?

a) No. b) Yes, one young man. c) Yes, several.

How long did Mathew have for his hair to be cut?

a) Less than one hour. b) More than one hour.

Did the old hairdresser cut Mathew's hair well?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Why did he sell his shop?

a) Because he was poor. b) Because he wanted to retire.

Who paid for the shop?

a) Mathew's father. b) The father of a young man.

Did the new hairdresser cut Mathew's hair exactly as

Mathew liked it?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Did Mathew go to him again?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

How did he ask him to cut his hair this time?

a) Exactly as he liked it. b) Very badly.

Did the young hairdresser agree to this?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

10 Why had Mathew asked him to cut his hair like that?

a) Because that was how he liked it. b) Because he

wanted the young man to understand that he had cut it

very badly the last time.

Text 550

When Polly left school, she had no idea what she wanted to

do. A friend of hers, who was a year older, and whose name

was Josephine, was at art college, and she persuaded Polly to

join her there.

Polly's father worked in a factory, and her mother worked

in a shop. They were saving their money to buy their own

house, and they had hoped that Polly would start earning too

as soon as she left school, so when she told them that she

wanted to go to art college, she expected them to have objec-

tions. But in fact they had none.

"You'll have to find some kind of a job to pay for your

college," Polly's mother warned her. "Your father and I will be

very happy to keep you at home, but we have no money for

your college course, and none for paints and all the other

things you'll need."

"Thank you very much," Polly answered. "I'm really very

grateful to you both. And there's no problem about getting a

job; the head of the art college has offered me one in their

library."

After a few months, Polly's parents really felt very proud that

their daughter was going to college, especially when she

brought home some of the things she had painted, for which

she had received high praise from her teachers.

Polly sometimes went to museums to see paintings by

famous artists, and one day she said to her parents, "Why don't

you come to a museum with me one day? Then I can tell you

all about the paintings, and you can see the kinds of things I'm

trying to do myself."

Polly's mother was free on Thursday afternoons and on Sat-

urdays, but her father sometimes had to work on those days.

They waited until one Saturday when he didn't have to work,and then they all went off to the museum that Polly had

chosen.

She showed her parents some famous paintings, and then

they came to one that they recognized.

"This," Polly said, pointing to it, "is Van Gogh's

'Sunflowers'."

"What cheek!" her father answered. "He's copied the picture

we've had in our hall for the last ten years!"

Exercise 1

Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 What made Polly go to art college?

a) The fact that she had a friend there. b) The fact that

she had left school.

2 Why didn't her parents have much money to give her?

a) Because Polly started earning. b) Because they

wanted to save to buy a house.

3 How did Polly pay for her college course?

a) By getting the money from her parents. b) By work-

ing in the college library.

Was Polly a good student?

a) No, she was not. b) Yes, she was.

Where did Polly see paintings by famous artists?

a) In her college library. b) In museums.

Whom did she invite to a museum one day?

a) Her father. b) Her friend Josephine. c) Her parents.

When was her father free?

a) Every Saturday. b) Some Saturdays.

Where did Polly take her parents one Saturday?

a) To a museum. b) To her college.

Why did Polly's parents recognize a picture there?

a) Because it was a copy of one in their hall. b) Because

there was a copy of it in their hall.

10 Why was Polly's father annoyed?

a) Because he thought someone had put a copy of Van

Gogh's picture in his house. b) Because he thought Van

Gogh had copied a picture in his house.

Text 551

Helen was a student at a university. She was studying English.

She was a clever girl, and she was also very good at sports and

games. Her best sport was throwing the javelin, and she al-

ways won a prize for that at university games.

Helen's best friend was called Mary. She went to the same

classes as Helen, and she was a very good runner. The two

girls often went out together in the evenings.

One evening they went to practise their sports in the uni-

versity grounds, and when they had finished, they walked part

of the way home together, but at one corner they had to say

goodbye, because their homes were in different directions.

"Be careful on your way home," Mary said to Helen. "I

would be happier if our houses were nearer."

"Me too," answered Helen. The streets were very quiet at

that time of the evening.

The next morning Helen and Mary met at an English class,

and Helen said to Mary, "Do you know what happened to me

after I left you yesterday evening?"

"No," answered Mary anxiously. "What happened to you?"

"Well," Helen said, "while I was walking home along that

quiet street near my house, a thief came up behind me and

pulled my necklace off my neck and ran away with it."

"I wish I'd been there," Mary said angrily. "If I had been,

I'd have run after the man and I'd probably have caught him.

But what are you going to do now? Have you been to the

police?"

"No," Helen answered with a smile.

"Why not?" Mary asked in surprise.

"Because," Helen answered, "when the man pulled my

necklace, I turned round suddenly and put my hand out to try

to stop him. I caught a chain which he was wearing round his

neck and pulled it off him. My necklace was a cheap one which

was not real silver; but this chain is made of real gold! If I went

to the police, I might have to give it to them."

1 Was Helen a clever student?

a) No, she was not. b) Yes, she was.

Was she strong too?

a) No, she was not. b) Yes, she was.

What was her best sport?

a) Running. b) Throwing the javelin.

Where did the girls practise running and throwing the

javelin? a) At home. b) In the university grounds.

Why didn't the girls walk all the way home together?

a) Because the streets were very quiet at that time.

b) Because their houses were not near each other.

How did Helen lose her necklace? a) A man stole it.

b) It fell off in a quiet street near her house.

What would Mary have done if she had been there?

a) She would have tried to bring the necklace back to

Helen. b) She would have found the necklace.

Did Helen tell the police about her necklace?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

Why? a) Because she was afraid that the police might

b) Because she was afraid that the police might

take the gold chain.

take it.

Which was more valuable, Helen's necklace or the thief's

chain? a) Helen's necklace. b) The thief's chain.

Text 552

Once upon a time, a boy who was called Stephen lived in a

small town which was a long distance from the sea. Stephen

read a lot of books about ships and their voyages to distant

countries, and he always imagined himself in each of them.

When he was sixteen, he decided that he wanted to become

an officer in the merchant navy, so he went to a place which

trained young men for these jobs.

Stephen enjoyed the lessons very much, especially the ones

on a ship, and he was also glad to do a lot of sports and ex-

ercises, because he had always been very fit, and by far the best

in his school at such things.

Then one day one of the teachers informed the new students

that it was time for them to begin having swimming and diving

lessons.

Stephen arrived at the pool the next morning with the other

students. He was looking forward to learning to swim.

The teacher arrived a minute later, and commanded those

who could not swim to go into one group, those who could

swim but not dive properly to go into a second group, and

those who could both swim and dive well to go into a third

one. Stephen went into the second group.

The teacher then told the students in the second group to go

down the steps into the swimming pool one by one and swim

to the other end. The first two obeyed, and neither of them had

any trouble in swimming to the other end. Stephen was the

third in the line. He climbed down the steps, but as soon as

he began to swim, he sank under the water.

When he did not come up again, the alarmed teacher jumped

in and dragged him out while the other students cheered. Then

the teacher said to Stephen, "Why ever didn't you join the

group that can't swim?"

"Because I'd never even bathed in a pool before," Stephen

answered, "so I didn't know whether I could swim or not."

1 Why was Stephen so interested in ships?

a) Because he lived near the sea. b) Because he read a

lot of books about them.

2 How did he make voyages when he was a boy?

a) He imagined them only. b) He travelled to distant

countries.

Why did he go away when he was sixteen?

a) To train to be an officer. b) To train young men.

Which lessons did he enjoy most?

a) The ones in the merchant navy. b) The ones which

were on a ship.

Was Stephen a very healthy boy?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

6 What did the students have to start learning after they had

been studying for some time?

a) Sports and exercises. b) Swimming and diving.

Was Stephen keen to learn to swim?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

Which group did Stephen go into?

a) The one with those who could not swim.

b) The one

c) The

with those who could swim, but not dive well.

one with those who could swim and dive well.

9 Why did Stephen sink?

a) Because he could not swim. b) Because the teacher

dragged him out.

10 Why had he not joined the group of those who could not

swim?

a) Because he had never swum before, so he did not know

if he could. b) Because he was really able to swim.

Text 553

Mrs Peters had learned to play the piano when she was at

school, but when she had begun to work, she had lived in a

very small flat, and there had been no room for a piano. She

was sad about this, but there was nothing she could do about

it, however much she tried.

Then, when she was twenty-three, she married, and she and

her husband went to live in a bigger flat. "I'm going to buy

myself a nice little piano now," Mrs Peters said to her husband,

"and I'm going to begin to practise again."

Her husband was happy, because he liked listening to the

piano.

So Mrs Peters saved some money, and her husband helped

her, and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for

her birthday and told her to buy whatever she wanted with it,

so she soon had enough for a small piano. She went to a shop

in her town and said, "I'II choose whichever piano does not

cost too much and fits into my living room."

She did this, and when she had paid for the piano and given

the shop assistant her address, he asked her whether she would

like him to get it tuned every few months.

Mrs Peters said that she would, so a few months later she

heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano

at a quarter to ten that morning.

Now, Mrs Peters had not cleaned the house yet, so it was

fairly dusty and untidy, and there was cigarette ash on the car-

pet. Mrs Peters hated having even the least amount of dirt, and

felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that,

so she had to hurry to clean everything carefully. It meant a

lot of effort, and it made her hot and tired, but anyhow, by the

time the man arrived to tune the piano at exactly a quarter to

ten, everything was finished.

Mrs Peters opened the door, and the man was standing there

with a big dog. "Good morning," the man said as he took his

cap off politely, "will it disturb you if I bring my dog in, please?

I'm blind, and he leads me wherever I go."

1 Why had Mrs Peters stopped playing the piano?

a) Because she had begun to work. b) Because there had

been no room for one in her flat.

Was she pleased about this?

a) No, she was not. b) Yes, she was.

When did she begin to play again?

a) After she began to practise. b) When she got a bigger

flat.

4 Did her husband like the idea?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

5 Where did the money for the piano come from?

a) From her parents, her husband and herself. b) Her

parents gave it to her. c) She saved it all.

6 What did the shop assistant offer Mrs Peters?

a) Her address. b) To arrange for the tuning of the

piano.

7. Why did Mrs Peters hurry to clean the house one morning?

a) Because strange people were coming. b) Because the

piano tuner was coming.

8 Why was she so keen to clean everything well that

morning?

a) Because she hated dirt. b) Because she was ashamed

when other people saw her house when it was dirty.

9 Why had she wasted her time?

a) Because the dog would dirty the house again.

b) Because the piano tuner could not see the house.

10 Why was the dog there?

a) Because it always took the blind man about.

b) Because it disturbed the piano tuner.

Text 554

Sam was an old farmer. He was born on his farm and had lived

on it all his life. He had married his neighbour's daughter, and

they grew fruit and vegetables.

Sam got up at five o'clock every morning to gather them and

take a load off to market in his old truck.

There were very few vehicles on the country roads at that

time of the morning, and Sam knew how to get to market very

well, so as he was going along, he was always thinking about

everything except his driving.

One morning he was thinking about what crops to plant for

the next year's harvest, and whether to try something else. A

lot of other farmers were planting the same things which he

produced, so the prices in the market were coming down and

he was getting less money.

After a few kilometres, Sam came to a place where the small

road which went in the direction of the market crossed a bigger

one, and he continued over it without stopping. He always

crossed the big road like that, because there was never any

traffic on it at that time of the morning, so there was no fear

of having an accident, and anyway he was always in a hurry,

because he wanted to get to the market in time for its opening.

But this morning a young policeman whom he had never

seen before signalled to him to stop a hundred metres beyond

the crossroads.

Sam stopped beside the policeman, and the policeman said

to him, "Didn't you know that there was a sign telling you to

stop at the crossroads before going over the main road?"

"Oh, yes," answered Sam, "I knew that there was a sign at

that point, because I go to market along this road every morn-

ing. But what I unfortunately didn't know was that you were

here."

1 Why did Sam get up so early?

a) Because he had married another farmer's daughter.

b) Because he had to take things to market.

2 Was it necessary for Sam to think about his driving?

a) No, it was not, because the roads were nearly empty,

and he knew them well. b) No, it was not, because there

were more important things to think about.

3 Why did he think of planting different crops?

a) Because he was not getting much money for his present

ones. b) Because he was getting fewer crops.

Was this because a lot of other farmers were stealing his

crops?

a) Yes, it was. b) No, it was because too many people

were growing the same things.

5 Why did Sam cross a big road without stopping?

a) Because he thought it was safe at that time of the

morning. b) Because he was afraid of having an

accident.

6 Were there many cars on the road at that time?

a) No, there were not many. b) Yes, there were a lot.

7 Why did Sam stop after the crossroads?

a) Because he wanted to speak to a policeman.

b) Because a policeman signalled to him.

8 Why?

a) Because he had not stopped at the big road.

b) Because he had never seen him before.

9 Had Sam known about the sign before the main road?

a) No. b) Yes.

10 Why hadn't he stopped?

a) Because he hadn't seen the policeman. b) Because he

had seen the policeman.

Text 555

Charlie Yates was seventeen years old, and although he had

left school, he preferred living in the comfort and convenience

of his parents' home to living alone. He said that he was trying

to find a job, but there never seemed to be one that he thought

good enough for him. His father wanted him to leave home

and earn some money, but his mother loved Charlie very much

and wanted him to stay, so she never interfered with what he

might want to do.

Charlie did not wash his hair very often, he shaved once a

week, and he could not bear wearing shoes, so his feet were

nearly always dirty.

His father did not see him very frequently, because he

worked quite a distance from home and was in the habit of

leaving the house early, before Charlie got up; and when he

got home in the evenings, Charlie was usually somewhere else,

amusing himself with a few of his friends, or playing the drums

in a band. Also, Charlie's father often had to go abroad on

business.

But Mr Yates sometimes saw his son at weekends, and then

he was always angry with him. He used to say to him: "Why

ever don't you shave every day? Who ever would give you a

job with your dirty hair? Where ever are your shoes?" and so

on.

"But Father," Charlie always said, "I don't care about those

things. All my friends are like me nowadays, and if I changed,

I wouldn't be popular with them any more."

One Saturday morning, while Charlie and his father were

having their usual argument, his father said to him, "You

should be ashamed to live like that. I was brought up quite

differently. When I was seventeen, my father never allowed me

to do any of the things that you do all the time. I was forbidden

to stay out till three o'clock in the morning, and come down

to breakfast at ten, and walk about the house with dirty feet,and grow a beard, and wear gold chains, and behave like

He went on and on until Charlie said kindly, "Poor Father.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never met him, but

he must have been a terrible old gentleman."

"Not at all!" Mr Yates objected angrily. "For your infor-

mation, I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!"

Exercise 1

Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 Whom did Charlie live with?

a) His parents. b) No one.

What job did he do?

a) He did not do anything. b) He taught in a school.

Were his parents happy about this?

a) His father was, but his mother was not. b) His

mother was, but his father was not. c) Yes, they were.

Was Charlie always clean and neat?

a) No, he was not.

5 Why did Charlie

b) Yes, he was.

usually not see his father in the

mornings?

a) Because he was somewhere else. b) Because he was

still in bed.

6 And why did he usually not see him in the evenings?

a) Because Charlie was abroad then. b) Because Charlie

was enjoying himself with his friends.

7 Did Charlie and his father have an amusing time together

when they met?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

8 Why did Charlie not want to change his habits?

a) Because if he did, he would not get a job. b) Because

if he did, he would lose his friends.

Had Charlie's father been the same when he was young?

a) No, he had not. b) Yes, he had.

Did Charlie's father say that he thought his own father had

been better than Charlie's father?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Text 556

Jack was twelve years old, and he was so eager to be a boy

scout that at last his mother found out what he had to do, and

soon he joined the boy scouts and went camping with them.

The teachers were very nice, and Jack began to learn a lot of

useful things, so he was as happy as he had hoped to be.

One day a teacher came to the camp to teach Jack and the

other young scouts to read a map. He said, "First you must

learn to read the different signs on the map. Do you see this

blue line over here? Well, that's a river. And now compare

these lines. This is a road, and this one is a railway line. Now

what does this shape mean? It's green, you see."

"It looks like a tree," one boy said.

"Yes, you're quite correct, Peter," answered the teacher.

"Now look at these brownish lines and these numbers. They

show how high a place is above sea level. Everything on this

line, for example, is 100 metres above sea level."

"So that tree is as high as the top of that hill," one of the boys

said.

"Yes, that's right, very good," answered the teacher. "Now,"

the teacher went on, "how can we find out whether we can see

one place from another?" Nobody answered.

"Well," the teacher continued, "if there's a higher place on

a straight line between them, it will be impossible for us to see

one from the other, won't it?"

The boys said, "Yes, sir," and there was some laughter.

The teacher continued to question the boys. "Do you see the

tree on this mountain over here?" He pointed it out to the boys.

"It's 120 metres above sea level. And here's a big river. It's 15

metres above sea level. Now here's a problem for you: if I was

beside the tree, and you were in the middle of the river, Jack,would I be able to see you?"

Jack looked at the map carefully and then answered, "Yes,

sir, you definitely would if you looked very quickly."

The teacher was surprised. "What nonsense!" he said. "What

ever do you mean? There's nothing between the tree and the

river which is so high that it prevents me seeing you, so why

would I have to look quickly?"

"Because I can't swim," Jack answered.

Exercise 1

Read these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 Why did Jack become a boy scout?

a) Because his mother found out about him. b) Because

he wanted to.

2 What did Jack do when he was camping?

a) He had useful lessons. b) He interested the teachers

greatly.

What was the blue line on the map?

a) A river. b) A road.

And what was the green form?

a) A forest. b) A tree.

What did the brown lines show?

a) How high a place was. b) Sea level.

6 How can you find out from a map whether you can see one

place from another?

a) By seeing if there is a higher place between them.

b) By seeing if there are any lower places between them.

7 Which was higher, the tree which the teacher pointed to,

or the river? a) The river. b) The tree.

Could you see one from the other?

a) No, you could not. b) Yes, you could.

Why was the teacher surprised?

a) Because Jack had given the right answer. b) Because

Jack had given a strange answer.

10 Why would the teacher not have seen Jack for long?

a) Because he could not swim.

something between the tree and the river.

b) Because there was

Text 557

When Sebastian was a boy at school, his favourite lesson was

art, and he won several prizes for it. Once he left school, he

got a position as a clerk in a bank, but three times a week he

went to evening classes in art, and whenever he had time at

the weekends, he painted.

He painted in a very modern manner mysterious objects

and shapes, women with three pink eyes, large blank areas,

and so on.

After a few months he thought, "Perhaps I can sell some of

my pictures and get enough money to afford to leave the bank

and become a real artist. Then I can travel around as much as

I like, and go to foreign museums, and see other artists' paint-

ings, and study in other countries when I feel like it. Though

I try to make the best of the job and I don't regard the work

as difficult

at least not at present I don't like life in a bank.

I only enjoy painting."

In the bank, Sebastian sometimes had to deal with a man

who owned a picture shop, and after he had had a few con-

versations with him, Sebastian invited him to his home one

evening to see some of his work. "Then perhaps you could tell

me whether I can really be a good artist and get some money

from my painting," Sebastian said hopefully.

The man said he was prepared to come and see what he

thought of Sebastian's work, so he arrived one evening at

Sebastian's home. Sebastian took the man to his studio and

started to show him some of his pictures, with some pride and

hope.

The man looked at them one after the other while Sebastian

watched his face, but to Sebastian's disappointment the man did not say anything, and his expression did not change at any

of them either.

Then, when he had finished, he looked around, and his

glance fell on something else. A happy look came over his face

for the first time, and he said, "Now I like this one very much!

It's so full of deep feeling! I'm sure I could sell this one for

you!"

"That," said Sebastian, "is the place where I clean the paint

off my brushes."

Exercise 1

Read these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

What was Sebastian's job?

a) He was an artist. b) He was a clerk.

What did he do in his spare time?

a) He painted. b) He won several prizes.

Did he paint things as they really were?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

Why did he want to sell some of his pictures?

a) Because he wanted to be an artist all the time.

b) Because he was very poor.

Was he happy in the bank?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.

Where did Sebastian meet the owner of the picture shop?

a) At the bank. b) In his shop.

Why did the man visit Sebastian's home?

a) To get some money from his painting. b) To advise

him.

8 Why was Sebastian disappointed when the man looked at

his pictures?

a) Because the man was too proud. b) Because the man

did not seem to like them.

Did he like any of the things he saw?

a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.

What did he like most in the house?

a) A picture which someone else had sold Sebastian.

b) The place where Sebastian cleaned his brushes.

Text 558

The famous director of a big and expensive film planned to film

a beautiful sunset over the ocean, so that the audiences could

see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as

they said goodbye to each other for ever. He sent his camera

crew out one evening to film the sunset for him.

The next morning he said to the men, "Have you provided

me with that sunset?"

"No, sir," the men answered.

The director was angry. "Why not?" he asked.

"Well, sir," one of the men answered, "we're on the east

coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sun-

rise over the sea, if necessary, but not a sunset."

"But I want a sunset!" the director shouted. "Go to the air-

port, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one."

But then a young secretary had an idea. "Why don't you

photograph a sunrise," she suggested, "and then put it through

the projector backwards? Then it'll look like a sunset."

"That's a very good idea!" the director said. Then he turned

to the camera crew and said, "Tomorrow morning I want you

to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea."

The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed

a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful bay.

Then at nine o'clock they took it to the director. "Here it is,

sir," they said, and showed it to him. He liked it very much.

They all went into the studio. "All right," the director

explained, "now our hero and heroine are going to say good-

bye. Run the film backwards through the projector so that we

can see the 'sunset' behind them."

The 'sunset' began, but after a quarter of a minute, the

director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the

camera crew to stop.

The birds in the film were flying backwards, and the waves

on the sea were going away from the beach.

In which part of the film was the sunset going to be used?

a) The beginning. b) The end.

Where did the director want the sunset?

a) Over the audiences. b) Over the sea.

Did the camera crew photograph a sunset?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

Why?

a) Because there were too many clouds. b) Because the

sun did not set over the sea there.

Where did the director want the camera men to go then?

a) To the east coast. b) To the west coast.

6 Why?

a) Because he was angry with them. b) Because the sun

set over the sea there.

7 How could a sunrise be made to look like a sunset?

a) By photographing it on the opposite coast. b) By put-

ting it through the projector backwards.

8 Did the camera crew get what the director wanted this

time?

a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they did.

Was the director pleased with the 'sunset'?

a) No, he was not. b) He was at first, but not

afterwards.

10 Why?

a) Because he hurt his face. b) Because the birds and

waves in the film were going the wrong way.

Book 17

Text 518

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1. old2. evening 3. same 4. always 5. wavy 6. less7. slowly8. lose9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

Text 519

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.Cheap2.Evening3.After4.Started5.Full6.Came7.Big8.Found9.Bad10.Previous

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

Text 520

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.Evening2.Early3.Near4.Different5.Old6.Left7.Sadly8.Free9.Slower10.Rest

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.Mrs Grey lived in London2.Mrs Grey worked in countryside3.Mrs Grey was driving a motorcycle4.Mrs Grey saw a supermarket next to the road5.Mrs Grey wanted to go buy products6.She couldn`t buy products because she needed to look after kids7.Shop was closing before comes back8.9.10.

Text 521

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.To be born2.Outside3.Easy4.More5.In6.Off7.Loudly8.Start9.High10.Safe

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 522

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.Never2.Big3.Finish4.Last5.Good6.High7.After8.More9.Take10.Hate

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 523

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 524

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 525

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 526

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 527

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 528

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

Text 529

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. old
2. evening
3. same
4. always
5. wavy
6. less
7. slowly
8. lose
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Cheap
2.Evening
3.After
4.Started
5.Full
6.Came
7.Big
8.Found
9.Bad
10.Previous

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Evening
2.Early
3.Near
4.Different
5.Old
6.Left
7.Sadly
8.Free
9.Slower
10.Rest

1.Mrs Grey lived in London
2.Mrs Grey worked in countryside
3.Mrs Grey was driving a motorcycle
4.Mrs Grey saw a supermarket next to the road
5.Mrs Grey wanted to go buy products
6.She couldn`t buy products because she needed to look after kids
7.Shop was closing before comes back
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.To be born
2.Outside
3.Easy
4.More
5.In
6.Off
7.Loudly
8.Start
9.High
10.Safe

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Never
2.Big
3.Finish
4.Last
5.Good
6.High
7.After
8.More
9.Take
10.Hate

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.