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2. Answer the questions.

1. What did Beauty do in the morning?

2. How did Beauty’s sisters spend their time?

3. What did they say about Beauty?

4. What did the merchant think about Beauty?

5. What letter did the merchant receive one day?

6. What did Beauty’s sisters beg the merchant to buy?

7. Why did Beauty ask her father to bring her a rose?

8. What happened to the merchant on his way back home?

9. What did the merchant find entering a large hall?

10. What did the merchant think about the master and his servants?

3. True or False?

1. Beauty rose at four in the morning, and made haste to clean the house and cook dinner for the family.

2. After she had done her work, she played the guitar or met with her friends.

3. Beauty’s sisters usually helped her to cook dinner.

4. The merchant knew very well that Beauty was better than her sisters.

5. One day the merchant received a letter with an account that a vessel, on board of which he had some goods, safely arrived.

6. Beauty asked the merchant to bring her some jewelry.

7. Going through a large forest the merchant found a beautiful castle and entered it.

8. Entering a large hall the merchant saw the master of the house.

4. Insert the right prepositions (for, from, with, to).

1. When they came ________ their country house, the merchant and his three sons applied themselves to husbandry and tillage.

2. Beauty rose at four in the morning, and made haste to clean the house and cook dinner ________ the family.

3. The merchant received a letter ________ an account that a vessel, on board of which he had some goods, safely arrived.

4. It came ________ a palace illuminated from top to bottom.

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He waited a considerable time, until it struck eleven, and still nobody came. At last he was so hungry that he could stay no longer, but took a chicken, and ate it in two mouthfuls. After this he drank a few glasses of wine, and growing more courageous he went out of the hall, and crossed through several grand apartments with magnificent furniture, until he came into a chamber, which had an exceeding good bed in it, and as he was very much fatigued, and it was past midnight, he decided it was best to shut the door, and go to bed.

It was ten the next morning before the merchant waked, and as he was going to rise he was astonished to see a good suit of clothes in the room of his own; certainly, said he, this palace belongs to some kind fairy, who has seen and pitied my distress. He looked through a window, but instead of snow saw the most delightful arbours and beautiful flowers. He then returned to the great hall, where he had taken supper the night before, and found some chocolate on a little table. “Thank you, good Madam Fairy,” said he aloud, “for being so careful, as to provide me a breakfast; I am extremely obliged to you for all your favours.”

The good man ate the chocolate, and then went to look for his horse, but passing through an arbour of roses he remembered Beauty’s request to him, and gathered a branch with several flowers; immediately he heard a great noise, and saw such a frightful Beast coming towards him, that he was ready to faint away.