English Option
Mr. Yates was nearly ninety, so it was often difficult for him to remember things,
but he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain every
year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit some friends. These
people had two young daughters.
One afternoon Mr. Yates was talking to one of the girls in the garden after
lunch. ‘You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year,
weren’t you?’ he said to her.
‘Yes, we were,’ answered the girl. ‘We were very ill.’
The old man said nothing for a minute, because he was thinking. Then at last
he said, ‘Oh, yes, I remember now! One of you died. Which one of you was it,
you or your sister?’
The girl answered, ‘It was me.’
‘Oh? I’m very sorry to hear it,’ said the old man.
Рускайя версийя
Мистеру Йейтсу было почти девяносто, поэтому ему часто было трудно что-то вспоминать.
но он по-прежнему очень любил путешествовать, поэтому они с женой каждый раз ездили в Испанию. Однажды летом, когда они были там, они пошли в гости к друзьям. Эти
у людей было две маленькие дочери.
Однажды днем мистер Йейтс разговаривал с одной из девушек в саду после
обед. «Вы и ваша сестра были больны, когда мы с женой были здесь в прошлом году,
сказал он ей.
«Да, были», – ответила девушка. «Мы были очень больны».
Старик промолчал минуту, потому что задумался. Тогда наконец
он сказал: «О да, теперь я вспомнил! Один из вас умер. Кто из вас был это,
ты или твоя сестра? ‘
Девушка ответила: «Это я».
‘Ой? Мне очень жаль это слышать, – сказал старик.
A. Answer these questions.
- Why did Mr. Yates not remember things very well? Because he Mr. Yates is very old
- Where did his friends live? They live in Hispania
- Who were ill when Mr. and Mrs. Yates visited Spain another time? two daughters
- Who really died then? one of the sisters
- Was the girl having a joke with Mr. Yates?
B. Which words in the story on page 40 mean: - almost-nearly 3. sad- 5. stopped living-died
- not forget 4. hard
C. Write this story. Put one word in each empty place. You will find all
the correct words in the story on page 40.
Mr. and Mrs. Yates lived together for 52 years, and then she became very
. . . . After a month she . . . , and Mr. Yates was alone. It was . . . for him to
live in a big house without anybody else, so he married again. His new . . .
was much younger than he was, and she liked . . . to foreign countries, so
they began to go to Africa every . . . , in the winter. Mrs. Yates had a younger
. . . , and she usually went with them too. Everybody thought, ‘Those girls
are that old man’s . . . .’
One day in Kenya a man said to him, ‘Do you . . . me? I was your
neighbor in Southampton.’
Mr. Yates did not answer for a few seconds, because he was . . . . Then
he said, ‘Oh, yes! That’s right! I married your daughter, didn’t I?
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