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1)Scotland is Hand of romance. Its history is rich in stones of bravery and excitemen, and its people, particularly, the Highlanders of the north and west are very proud of their colourful traditions and legends.

2)The Scottish landscape with its many mountains, valleys and lakes, is very beautiful:and it is no wonder that it is the background for many an exciting tale of adventure.

3)Living in a country that is wild and in some places very poor, the Scots have long been famous as an industrious and hard-working race. At the same time they have always had a deep affection fot their country, and no nation is more patriotic.

4)Their love of the past is shown by their deep devotion to national heroes such as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, chieftans who led the armies against the English in the Middle Ages.

5) But their favourite hero is Bonnie Prince Charlie, who made a hopeless and unsuccessful attempt to establish a claim to the throne of England in 1745 Much has been written in honour of this romantic Prince, and even today Scotsmen still sing to him, «Will ye no come back again?»

6) Modern Scotland is naturally quite different from the battle-scarred land of long ago … Edinburgh, the capital, is one of the finest cities of Europe often called «the Athens of the North».

7) Princes Street, its main thoroughfare, surpasses anything to be seen in the rest of Britain, and rising above it on a hill is the beautiful old Castle, famous for its Military Tattoo during the annual Edinburgh festival.

8 ) On the river Clyde in the west of Scotland there lies Glasgow, a great Port and engineering centre with over a million inhabitants. Here there have been built Britain’s greatest ships, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elisabeth, and there are no greater expert shipbuilders in the world than those of Glasgow.

9) Other important Scottish industries are fishing and farming practised for centuries. Today farming especially needs modern methods and many farmers are finding it difficult «to make both ends meet».

10) Until the seventeenth century England and Scotland had separate kings. But in 1603 it so happened that the same man became the king of both countries as King James I of England and James VI of Scotland. The two nations still remained apart, and a hundred years went by before they were united politically and economically in 1707. It is interesting to note that the British kings are still crowned both in England and Scotland.

#1.(…) Has the beauty of Scottish scenery somehow inspired the Scots?

#2. (…) Which Scottish city is often compared to another beautiful European city?

#3. (…) Whose memory is cherished in heroic and romantic Scottish songs ?

#4. (…) Scotland and England have different kings at present, don’t they?

#5. (…) Why does one of the Scottish industries of long standing demand radical modernization?

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1) In 1066 Edward the Confessor died. After his death the council of nobles and bishops chose Harold, one of the great Saxon earls, to be their king.

2) Long before he became king, Harold had been shipwrecked on the shores of Normandy. He fell into power of Duke William who made him swear that when Edward the Confessor died, he would help the Duke to become King of England. But as the oath had been forced on him, Harold did not think it binding.

3) When Edward the Confessor died, Duke William sent for Harold to remind him of his words. But Harold answered that the people had chosen him to be their king and that he would fight against Duke William if he came to claim the English throne.

4) So Duke William gathered an army of sixty thousand men armed with spears and swords and strong bows, and many thousand horses and plentiful provisions. With a fleet of seven hundred ships he set sail for England.

5) He landed with his army on the coast of Sussex. Harold met him near Hastings, but he had with him only twenty thousand men, that is, only one man to every three of the Normans.

6) On the 13th October, 1066, there was fought a battle that changed the whole course of English history. It lasted from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon and both sides fought with the greatest courage.

7) Duke William had three horses killed under him, but at last Harold struck in the eye by a Norman arrow and he fell down mortally wounded. Norman knights broke the Saxon line and a darkness fell. The battle was over. The Normans remained the victors on the field.

8 ) The Duke was crowned King of England and became known as \Villiam the Conqueror.

9) Few things affected English history as much as the Norman Conquest. Through it England felt the influence of a much higher civilization. The learning that had developed in France and Italy came to England’s shores: magnificent castles and churches were built, cultivation of the land was improved and a system of laws and courts was organized.

10) All this is shown in an interesting way in the English language. For a long time the two languages existed side by side in England. French was spoken by the Norman masters, and English by the conquered mass of people. French was the language of the court and the law courts, and the schools. But it was the English language that survived, a very much changed and enriched English.

#1.(…) What did Harold have to promise to Duke William?

#2, (…) Who gained the upper hand in the battle near Hastings?

#3. (…) The Norman Conquest was a very common event in the history of Britain, wasn’t it?

#4. (…) Harold was chosen by the local peasants to be the English king, wasn’t he?

#5. (…) Was English or French spoken by the nobility?

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1) In the year 1017 a Danish Prince became King of England. His name was Canute. His father had led a series of Danish invasions of England, and when his father died he himself, after a final and successful expedition, was made King of England.

2) Canute had a cruel and terrible temper, and fought very hard. But, as king, he seems to have been much respected. He was a wise and just ruler, or so historians say.

3) He was also King of Denmark and Norway as well as King of England, a very powerful man. His reign gave England eighteen years of Peace, a time of law and order, which the nation badly needed after the fighting and troubles of earlier reigns.

4) King Canute’s nobles used to flatter him a lot, or so the story goes, They thought they would please him by telling him how great he was, what a wonderful king he was and so on.

5) One day Canute was walking along the seashore and they started on their usual flattery. They went on and on, getting wilder and wilder in their praises trying to please him.

6) Finally one of the nobles said the king was so powerful that even the waves of the sea would obey him.

7) Now that Canute was a wise man and was extremely tired of this kind of talk he decided to teach them a lesson. He knew the tide was coming in and he ordered his servant to bring him a chair, and he sat down on the shore facing the sea.

8 ) Then he spoke to the sea waves. He told them to go back. He said he was the lord of the sea, and very powerful, and he commanded that the waves should not wet his feet.

9) Well, of course, the tide went on coming in, the waves came closer and closer, until they lapped around the king’s feet.

10) Then the king turned to his nobles and told them to stop their flattering talk, and that’s how English people remember that warrior king: a man who cured his followers of flattery by getting his feet wet.

#1. (…) Was Canute’s character mild and peaceful?

#2. (…) What do English people keep in their memory concerning this king and his reign?

#3. (…) Why did the nobles know no bounds in their praises?

#4. (…) How did he address the powerful sea waves ?

#5. (…) The tidal waves never reached King Canute’s feet, did they?

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1) A rich American went to Paris and bought a picture by a modern artist. He had paid a lot of money for the picture, therefore he thought the picture was very, or even exceptionally, good, as it was so expensive.

2) The American came to the hotel in the heart of the city where he was staying and wanted to hang the picture on the wall. But to his enormous surprise he could not tell what was the top and what was the bottom.

3) So he thought of a very clever plan to get to know how to hang the picture properly. He hung the picture in the dining-room and invited the artist to dinner.

4) When the artist came, the American did not tell him anything about the picture. Dinner began and the two had a pleasant conversation about delightful Paris sights over it. But when they began to eat their soup, the artist looked at his picture many times but didn’t say anything.

5) When they began to eat their fish he put on his glasses and looked at his picture again, this time very attentively.

6) When the fruit was served the artist couldn’t help getting up to approach the picture and to look at it more closely.

7) When they began to drink their coffee, the artist finally told the American that he was awfully sorry to say it but this picture of his was definitely upside down.

8 ) The American was sincerely surprised and wondered to the utmost the artist hadn’t told him the bitter truth at once.

9) To his utter astonishment the artist truthfully admitted that he himself had not been sure about it at first.

10) So the rich American being very practical and wise left the picture on the wall as it was. He was absolutely sure that nobody would notice that it was upside down.

#1.(..) Was the picture extremely cheap or costly?

#2. (..) Why was the rich American confident that it was next to impossible to notice the mistake?

#3. (…) Did the rich man invite the artist to an expensive restaurant or to his hotel dining-room?

#4. (…) What did the sincere artist have to admit in the end of their dinner?

#5. (…) Did the American’s scheme to tell the top from the bottom of this modern picture work out at the very first moment?

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1) The summer was very hot. It was very stuffy in the city and Mr.Black decided to go to the seashore for his summer vacation. He could afford a long time vacation and he well deserved it this time, he thought.

2) He booked a railway ticket, packed his things and was about to start for the station, when he remembered a very important thing. He had to ask his housekeeper to post him all his letters he would receive. She promised to do that.

3) Mr.Black had a very good time there. The weather was fine and the sea was calm. He spent much time on the seashore and got sunburnt and felt fine.

4) The only thing that troubled him was the fact that he hadn’t received any letters at all.

5) He thought it extremely strange and phoned his housekeeper to find out why she didn’t send him his letters. The housekeeper answered that she had no key to his letter-box.

6) Mr.Black sincerely apologized and promised to send her the key as soon as possible. On the same day he put the key into an envelope, wrote down his address on it and posted the letter.

7) Another month was passing. Mr.Black had a very good rest on the seashore. He swam in the sea, went fishing, went boating with his friends. But he still did not receive any letters.

8) When his summer vacation was over, he returned home. The housekeeper met him very warmly but he was very stern and angry with her. She could not understand why he was so angry.

9) Then Mr.Black asked her crossly why she had not sent him any of his letters which he had expected throughout his long summer vacation.

10) The poor woman had to explain him honestly that she could not get the key he had sent her as it was in the locked letter-box together with his other letters.

#1. (…) Did Mr.Blake enjoy his long awaited vacation at the seaside?

#2. (…) Why did he have a long vacation this summer?

#3. (…) What did the housekeeper have to explain her master when he phoned her?

#4. (…) The housekeeper greeted her master cordially, but his reaction was difficult to understand, wasn’t it?

#5. (…) Where was his key lying all the time?

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1) Joseph Turner lived in the 19th century. Even at that time he was very famous painter. His paintings were a tremendous success with the public.

2) He was very fond of dogs. One day his dog which he loved dearly broke a leg.

3) The artist was truly sorry for the dog and wanted to have it to be well again as soon as possible. He was rich enough to send for the best surgeon in London instead of taking a plain veterinary.

4) The surgeon arrived very soon and asked the famous painter what the matter was and how he could help him in any way.

5) Joseph Turner realized that the famous surgeon might get deeply offended if he learned that his patient was a dog. So he decided to praise him highly at first.

6) He told the surgeon that he was a really great and well-known doctor. He begged the surgeon to help his dog because it was very important to him.

7) As a matter of fact, the surgeon felt annoyed but he didn’t show it. He treated the dog carefully and soon it was quite well again.

8) The next week the surgeon asked Turner to come urgently to his house. The artist believed that he wanted to see him in connection with the dog.

9) The great Joseph Turner arrived as soon as possible at the appointed time and was shown into the sitting-room.

10) The surgeon met him very warmly and heartily said: «Mr.Turner, I am so glad you were able to come. My front door needs painting. I know you are too great a painter for this kind of work, but I beg you to do іt immediately. It is so important for me.»

#1.(…) What happened to Joseph Turner’s pet one day?

#2. (…) The high quality surgeon was very pleased to be able to treat such an unusual patient for him, wasn’t he?

#3. (…) Did the surgeon invite the artist to dinner or to do an important and urgent job for him?

#4. (…) Could the artist afford to send for the most celebrated doctor in London? #5. (,..) Turner is a well-known painter of the last century, isn’t he?

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1) America has had few genuises as extraordinary as Edgar Allan Рое. His poetry has had a haunting and lasting effect on readers for more than a century.

2) He wrote stories of such strange imagination that there has seldom been anything like them before or since. He has been called the creator of the mystery story.

3) Рое was a child of misfortune from the time he was born. His first misfortune was that his parents were actors. In 1809, the year of his birth, there was still a strong feeling in the USA that the theatre was sinful and wicked.

4) Poe’s father deserted his wife and children about a year after Edgar was born. When the boy was only two years old, his mother died, alone and penniless in Richmond, Virginia.

5) Mrs. Allan, well-known in Richmond society, happened to hear of his mother’s death and decided to adopt the child.

6) At first it seemed Edgar’s good fortune to be adopted by this family, but it didn’t work out that way. Although Mrs.Allan treated him as her own child, Mr.Allan, a busy man who was piling up money in a tobacco business, decided that the boy’s nature was sinful and refused to take a father’s responsibility for him.

7) The child was brilliant from the beginning and with his keen mind he could have become one of the most influential persons of his place and time. But even as a child, when he played games with other children, they treated him as an inferior, standing much lower.

8 ) Рое knew well that he had no true claim or right to Allan’s money, name or protection. Although Рое had done well in his studies, he was unable to continue at the University of Virginia.

9) In his despair and frustration, Edgar Рое decided to become a soldier and quickly advanced in rank. At the age of twenty-two in New-York City he was a successful editor and literary critic for a time but he found few friends.

10) Рое revealed his own thoughts and feelings through his skilful writing that had characters and plots that are not now or never were a part of the real world. Рое won some prizes in his lifetime but he was mainly unknown and left alone. The French were the first to appreciate his true genius. This in turn brought some fame at home, but only after his death.

#1 (…) Was Рое the founder of the detective story?

#2′ (…) Edgar’s father took a constant care of his little son. didn’t he?

#3. (…) what careers did he try his hand at?

#4. (…) Did Edgar Allan Рое gain a wide recognition while he was living? #5. (…) Was he a graduate of the University of Columbia or that of Virginia?

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1. The great noise lasted for some minutes, during which Miss Miller repeatedly exclaimed: «Silence!» or «Order!» When it was quiet again, she walked from class to class. A distant bell rang. The girls marched into another room to breakfast.

2. How happy I was at the prospect of having something to eat! The dining-room was a great gloomy room. On two long tables there smoked basins of something hot, which sent off a bad odour. The girls whispered : «Disgusting! The porridge is burnt again!»

3. I ate a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste, but burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes. The spoons moved slowly. Breakfast was over, and none had breakfast.

4. We left the dining-room and went to the school-room. A clock in it struck nine. Miss Miller cried: «Silence! To your seats!» The monitor of the first class was sent to fetch the globes. While the direction was being carried out, we sat silent.

5. Having taken her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables, Miss Temple, the superintendent of Lowood school, commenced giving a lesson in geography. The lower classes were called by the teachers; they were having repetitions in history, grammar, writing and arithmetic while music lessons were being given to some of the elder girls.

6. The length of each lesson was measured by the clock, which at last struck twelve. Then Miss Temple rose:» I have a word to address to the pupils,» she said.

7. «You had this morning a breakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungry. I have ordered that a lunch of bread and cheese should be served to all.»

8. The teachers looked at her with surprise. «It is being done on my responsibility,» she added and left the room. Meantime the bread and cheese was brought and distributed to the delight of the whole school.

9. Then we were ordered to go into the garden. The stronger among the girls ran about and played games, but many pale and thin ones gathered together for shelter and warmth in the verandah; and among these, I heard frequently the sound of a cough.

10. My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age, and not the golden age either. Our only consolation came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread and a little butter on it.

#1.(…) Did the morning meal smell nice and appetizing?

#2. (…) What was the greatest pleasure for all the girls at this school?

#3. (…) Miss Temple was afraid to take any responsibility herself, wasn’t she?

#4. (….) Were all the girls healthy and strong to play in the open air or not?

#5. (…) How was the time of each lesson defined?

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1) When the train got in it was nearly midnight. Andrew started along the deserted platform, his eyes shining, his heart singing wildly, madly. He had done it!

2) The professor’s words still rang in his ears: «Doctor Manson, You are the first candidate in this examination hall who has ever told me something original, something true which I did not know. I congratulate you!»

3) His thoughts were suddenly cut short: a man came running heavily behind him. Instinctively Andrew stopped. As the man drew nearer he recognized him: Frank Davis.

4) «I was coming for you, Doctor. Coming to your house.» The wind tore the rest of his words away. «What’s wrong?» shouted Andrew.

5) «A lad got almost buried there. They are not able to get him out. You must go to him, Doctor.» Andrew immediately took a few steps, then a sudden thought made him stop short. «I’ve got to have my bag!» he said to Davis. «You go to my house and fetch it. I’ll go to the mine».

6) He was there in four minutes finding the manager and three man waiting for him. At the sight of him the manager’s anxious expression lifted a little. «Glad to see you, Doctor. Nobody killed, thank God, but one lad is almost buried. We can’t move him an inch. And the roof may go down any moment.»

7) As they entered the cage Davis came running across the yard, with the bag. The cage rocketed to the bottom. They reached the dead end where a man lay lost in the mass of the fallen rock around him. It was Sam Bevan. He was quite conscious. Weakly, he tried to smile to Andrew.

8) The whole of his body was free except his left arm, which was pressed under the huge rock. Andrew saw at once that the only way to free Bevan was to amputate the arm. And Bevan read the decision the moment, it was made. «Go on, Doctor,» he muttered.

9) «Don’t worry, Sam,» Andrew said. «I’m going to send you to sleep now. When you wake up you’ll be in bed»

10) Stretched flat in the must under the two-foot roof he slipped off his coat, folded it and put it under Bevan’s head. He rolled his sleeves and asked for his bag

#1.(…) Why did the university professor praise one of his students so high in public?

#2. (…) Andrew was gloomy deep in his heart, wasn’t he?

#3. (…) Could Bevan move a little in the mass of the fallen rock or was he lost in the mass?

#4. (…) Who was sent to get the necessary instruments?

#5. (…) The young man didn’t understand what was the only way possible to save him before the roof fell down, did he?

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1) Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable.Monday morning always found him so, because it began another week’s slow suffering in school.

2) He lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he were sick; then he could stay at home away from school. Here was a vague possibility.

3) He examined his system. No illness or ailment was found and he investigated again. This time he thought he could detect some colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope. But they soon grew feeble and died away.

4) Suddenly Tom discovered something. One of his upper teeth was loose. This was lucky. He was about to begin to groan when it suddenly occurred to him that his aunt would pull it out and it would hurt.

5) Nothing else offered for some time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a serious thing that threatened to make the patient lose a finger. So the boy eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it for inspection. Then he fell to groaning with considerable spirit.

6) Finally Sid woke up and looked in his face anxiously. «Why, what’s the matter, Tom? 1 must call auntie.» Tom said groaning: «No, never mind. Don’t call anybqdy. I forgive you everything, Sid. When I am gone.»

7) Tom was suffering in reality now, so handsomely was his imagination working. Sid flew downstairs and cried: «Oh, Aunt Polly, come quick! Tom’s dying!» Her heart nearly sank. «I don’t believe it!»

8) But she fled upstairs nevertheless, with Sid and Mary at her heels. And her face grew white, too, and her lips were trembling. When she reached the bedside she gasped out: «What is the matter with you, child?»

9) «Oh, auntie, my sore toe’s mortified!» The old lady sank down into a chair and laughed a little, then cried a little, then did both together. This restored and calmed her down.

10) Meanwhile the cries and groans stopped and the pain vanished from the toe.. Feeling foolish Tom said, «Aunt Polly, it seemed mortified, and іt hurt so much I never minded my tooth at all.»

#1.(…) Why was Tom so eagerly wishing to fall ill?

#2. (…) Was the boy’s fancy rich and colourful?

#3. (…) Were Aunt Polly’s lips spread in a wide smile when she heard of Tom’s sudden illness?

#4. (…) At the end of the alarm Tom felt happy and proud, didn’t he?

#5. (…) All Tom’s teeth were good, weren’t they?