Билет № 4

Listen to the story about a rich old lady and answer the questions below.

1​ Who lived with her in the hotel?

2​ In what way did the young waiter help the lady?

3​ Why did he want to be helpful?

Script

There was once a very rich old lady whose husband had died, and whose children had married and gone to live in foreign countries. When she reached the age of eighty and was too old to live alone and look after a house herself, this rich old lady went to live in an expensive and very comfortable hotel near the sea.

This rich old lady had a pair of nasty dogs, which used to growl and bark at everybody. But she loved them very much. They lived in the hotel with her and went wherever she did.

After the old lady and her dogs had been at the hotel for nearly a year, a new young waiter came to work there and began to do everything that he could to help the old lady and be nice to her. He carried her things for her, helped her to get into and out of the car and even pretended to like her unpleasant dogs and offered to look after them in his free time. He fed them, cleaned them and took them for walks for some years.

The young waiter did not doubt that, when the rich woman died, she would leave him a lot of money, to pay him for everything that he had done for her and her dogs. But when she did die a few years later, he soon discovered that she had left him only two things which she loved most in the world, and which she thought that he loved too — her dogs. All her money went to her children.

Билет № 5

Listen to the story about what happened to Mr. Brown one dark night and answer the questions below.

1​ What did Mr. Brown do one late evening?

2​ How did the man behave himself?

3​ Why did the man follow Mr. Brown?

Script

Mr. Brown, who lived in a very quiet place, was on his way home from the railway station. It was very late, and he was alone on the dark road. Suddenly he heard somebody behind him, and he had an unpleasant feeling that the man was following him. He began to walk faster. The man behind him walked faster too. He began to run, but the man ran after him. Now he was sure the man was following him and he was really frightened.

There was a wall on one side of the road, and he quickly climbed up on it and jumped down on the other side. “If he passes and doesn't stop," Mr. Brown thought, "everything will be all right." But the man didn't pass. He climbed up on the wall and jumped down, just as Mr. Brown had done. Now Mr. Brown's only thought was: "I'm in danger! Then he thought: "If he thinks that I am a coward, I’ll soon show him that he is making a mistake!" And he stood up and shouted, "What do you want? Why are you following me?"

The other man was so tired that at first it was difficult for him to speak. "I didn't know that you are such an athlete," he said at last. "I have to go to Mr. White's house, but I don't know the way. A man at the station told me that you live across the street from Mr. White, and he told me to follow you. Please tell me, how long will it take us to get there? I don't think I can go farther!"