Task 1. Answer the questions.
1. Why did the jeweller write the note at the dictation of the gentleman?
2. Why didn’t he suspect the young man of a fraud?
3. Why did the jeweller faint?
Task 2. Translate into Russian. Task 3. Find the words to the definitions
1. a gentleman of aristocratic bearing; 1. to go somewhere with someone;
2. He wore his arm in a sling. 2. to look at something carefully;
3. Hang it! 3. to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply,
4. via bearer; usually because you are tired, or bored;
5. painful; 4. the second of two objects just mentioned;
6. value; 5. to lose consciousness;
6. to say something in a low voice;
Text 8. WHILE THE AUTO WAITS (After O. Henry)
Read the text and do the task.
The girl in gray came again to that quiet corner of that quiet small park. She sat down on a bench and began to read a book. She had come there at the same time on the previous day and on the day before that, and there was a young man who knew it.
The young man came near. At that moment her book fell on the ground. The young man picked up the book, returned it to the girl politely, saying a few words about the weather, and stood waiting.
The girl looked at his simple coat and his common face.
“You may sit down, if you like,” she said. “The light is too bad for reading. I should like to talk.”
“Do you know,” he said, “that you are the finest girl I have ever seen?”
“Whoever you are,” said the girl in an icy tone, “you must remember that I am a lady.”
“I beg your pardon,” said the young man, “but – ”
“Let’s change the subject. I come here to sit because it is here that I can be near the masses of people. I speak to you because I want to talk to a natural man. Oh! You don’t know how tired I am of it – money, money, money. I’m tired of pleasure, of travel.”
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“I always had an idea,” said the young man that money must be a very good thing.”
“When you have so many millions! Drives, dinners, theatres, balls, suppers! I am tired of it,” said the girl.
The young man looked at her with interest.
“Sometimes,” continued the girl, “I think if I ever loved a man, I should love a simple man. What is your profession?”
“I am a very simple man. But I hope to rise in the world. I work in a restaurant,” said he.
The girl drew back.
“I am a cashier in that restaurant you see there with that brilliant electric sign,” he continued.
The girl looked at her watch and rose. “Why are you not at work?” she asked.
“I am on the night turn,” said the young man, “it is an hour yet till my work begins. May I see you again?”
“I don’t know, perhaps. I must go quickly now. Oh, there’s a dinner and a concert tonight. Perhaps you noticed a white automobile at the corner of the park when you came?”
“Yes, I did,” said the young man.
“I always come in it. The driver waits for me there. Good night.”
“But it is dark now,” said the young man. “May I accompany you to the car?”
“You will remain on this bench for ten minutes after I have left.”
And she went away. The young man looked at her elegant figure while she was going to the entrance of the park. Then he rose and followed her. When she reached the park gate, she turned her head to look at the car, then passed it, crossed the street and entered the restaurant. A red-haired girl left the cashier’s desk and the girl in gray took her place.
The young man put his hands into his pockets and walked slowly down the street. Then he got into the white automobile and said to the driver, “Club, Henry.”
Choose the correct answer.
The young man came to the park
A. by chance
B. because he wanted to see the girl
C. because he went to this park every day
The girl in gray
A. behaved like a lady
B. was displeased with the young man
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C. looked at him with interest
The young man
A. was dressed very simply
B. worked in a restaurant
C. despised money
After leaving the park the girl
A. drove away in a white auto
B. went to the club
C. returned to her work
The girl lied to the young man because
A. she was afraid of him
B. she fell in love with him
C. she wanted to impress him
Text 9. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION
Read the text and e xplain the title of the text.
Mr. Brown got to a hotel late in the evening after a long journey. He asked the hall-porter r there were any vacant rooms in the hotel. At that moment another traveller came to the hotel and asked the hall-porter for a room too. The only vacant room was a double room, that’s a room with two beds in it.
"Do you mind if you spend the night in that room together?" the hall-porter asked. "It'll be less expensive for you, you'll each pay half".
At first the travellers didn't like the idea, but just then it began raining hard and they were too tired to go to another hotel, so they changed their minds. They spoke to each other and then told the porter that they agreed to spend the night in the same room. Their things were carried in, and soon the two men went to sleep to the accompaniment of the rain. Suddenly Mr. Brown woke up because of a loud noise. It was quite dark. "What's the matter?" Mr. Brown asked in surprise. "Is anything the matter?"
In a weak voice the second traveller answered, "I'm sorry, but I had to wake you up, I've got asthma. I feel very bad. In addition I've got a terrible headache. If you don't want me to die, open the window quickly".
Mr. Brown jumped out of bed and began looking for his matches but he couldn't find them in the dark, and the sick man went on moaning "Air, air ... I want fresh air, I'm dying."
Mr. Brown still couldn't find the matches, so he tried to find the window. It took him some time, and at last he thought he had found it. But: he couldn't open it. As the voice of the traveller grew weaker and weaker, Mr. Brown in horror took a chair and broke the window with it. The sick man immediately stopped moaning and said he was very grateful and felt much better. Then the two of them slept peacefully until morning.
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When they woke up next morning, they were surprised to see that the only window in the room was still closed, but the large mirror was broken to pieces.
Text 10. "THE LOVE DRUG" (After O. Henry )
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