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4. The policeman examined him for about a quarter of an hour.
8. Why did the conductor want to know about the lady?
1. Because he wanted to see her ticket.
2. Because he thought my friend was a liar.
3. Because he had never seen ladies.
4. Because he wanted to sell her a ticket.
9. What king was nearly drowned?
1. an English king
2. a Russian king
3. a Spanish king
4. a French king
10. Выберите нужный глагол:
The spectators must _______ off their hats.
1. take
2. make
3. bring
4. lie
11. Выберите нужные глаголы:
When the foreign dog ________ a cat in a hurry, it ________ aside.
1. see, stand
2. saw, stand
3. saw, stands
4. sees, stands
12. Выберите нужный предлог:
An English owner of that fox-terrier normally will jump __________ the nearest tram.
1. upon
2. in
3. at
4. behind
13. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Who are foreigners?
2. Are there many foreigners in your country?
3. What have you learned about them?
4. What do you like and what don’t you like in foreigners?
5. What would you do if you were the foreigner?
6. What is the end of the story?
7. How can you explain the title of the story?
8. Retell the story.
14. Заполните таблицу:
The Man Who Would Manage
They say – and I can believe it – that at nineteen months of age he wept because his grandmother did not allow him to feed her with a spoon, and that at three and a half he was trying to teach a frog to swim.
Two years later he nearly injured his left eye, when he was showing the cat how to carry kittens safely, and about the same period he was dangerously hurt by a bee when he was trying to replace it from one flower to another, where, as he thought, there was more honey.
His desire was always to help others. He could spend whole mornings explaining to elderly hens how to hatch eggs, and he cancelled his afternoon’s walk to sit at home and crack nuts for his pet squirrel. Before he was seven he was arguing with his mother upon the management of children, and reprove his father for incorrect education.
As a child he liked to mind other children. It was not important to him whether the other children were older than himself or younger, stronger or weaker, whenever and wherever he found them he began to mind them. Once, during a school treat, the teacher heard piteous cries from a distant part of the wood. The teacher discovered him upon the ground, his cousin, a boy twice his own weight, was sitting upon him and steadily whacking him. The teacher rescued him and asked:
“Why don’t you play with the little boys? What are you doing with him?”
“Please, sir,” was the answer, “I was minding him.”
He was a good-natured lad, and at school he was always allowing the whole class to copy from his paper. Unfortunately, his answers were awfully wrong, and the result to his followers was bad. So they were waiting for him outside later and punching him.
