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Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
“Now you can jump on to my back, Little Brother,” said Bagheera, “and we will go home.”
Exercises
1. Переведите на английский язык:
прямо, быть наказанным, поспешно, дюжина, тихо.
2. Заполните пропуски словами из списка.
1. The three friends __________________ of the Cold Lairs.
2. They did not want to see what would happen, so they _____________.
3. You have done wrong and got us all into ________________.
4. Bagheera _______________ him a dozen times with his paw.
5. He fell, _____________, but quietly took the beating.
3. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. What was the first thing Mowgli said, when they had come away from the Cold Lairs?
2. What was Baloo’s reply?
3. What did Bagheera say?
4. What did Bagheera do?
5. What did a beating from Bagheera feel like?
4. Переведите на русский язык:
to climb, to stare, still, a tap, severe, without a word.
10
Mowgli was now ten years old. Baloo and Bagheera decided that it was time for Mogwli to go to the man village that was on the edge of the jungle. The jungle was not safe for him. Shere Khan continued to hunt for him. He had vowed that he would get him one day.
He was a very cunning tiger. He knew that Akela was getting old and that soon a new, young wolf would become the leader. So Shere Khan prepared a plan. He began to spend more and more time with the young wolf pack, making them believe that he was their friend.
“What do you have to do with a man-cub?” Shere Khan would ask them. “He is not one of you.”
And the young wolves began to agree with him. Bagheera heard all this. He was afraid that the young wolves would drive Mowgli out of the pack, when the time came to choose a new leader.
One day, he spoke to the boy about this. Mowgli would not believe him.
“They will never drive me away,” he said. “I am one of them. We have grown up together, played together and hunted together. I am one of them, Bagheera,” he repeated.
“Mowgli, why do you forget that you are a man-cub? The creatures of the jungle hate man because they fear him. Some of the wolf pack already hate you. Shere Khan has made sure of that. All of them will hate you when you become a man.”
Mowgli could not speak.
“What shall I do?” he asked.
“Go to the village and bring back the red flower. Then all the wolves, no, all the creatures of the jungle, will fear you.”
Mowgli knew the red flower. It was the fire around which the villagers sat on winter nights, or which they carried with them in small pots on cold days when they took their cattle to graze. It was true that all the creatures of the jungle feared it. But Mowgli was not afraid.
Exercises
1. Переведите на английский язык:
деревня, на краю, хитрый, стая волков, верить, прогонять, принести, горшки, скот.
2. Заполните пропуски словами из списка.
1. The jungle was not __________ for him.
