3.4 At the station

We see three men at the railway station. They are speaking to the porter. "What time is the next train 1)______ London?" asks one of them. "They go every hour. The next train is at ten o'clock," says the porter (носильщик). "That's all right," they say, "let's go to the restaurant and wait 2)______the train there». At two minutes past ten the three men run out of the restaurant and ask the porter: «Has the train gone?" "Yes, it has," says the porter. "The next train is at 11 o'clock» "That's all right," the three men say, "let's go to the restaurant and have a drink there.» At two minutes past eleven the three men again run out of the restaurant but the eleven o'clock train 3)_______already. "The next train is at twelve o'clock. It is 4)______last train to go to London," says the porter. At twelve o'clock we again see the three men running out of the restaurant. Two of

5) have got into a carriage (вагон) but the third man hasn't got into the train. He 6)_______at the platform and laughing. "Why are you laugh­ing?" asks the porter. "Because those two men 7)_____to see me off (провожать)," says the man.

1. b)to

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3.5. The Queen's family

In the days of Queen Victoria (1837—1901), ordinary British people thought that 1)______ royal family was very special. Victoria, her husband and 2)_____ nine children were seen as an example of perfect family life.

But today things 3)_____different. The Queen is still generally popular, but there have been 4)______many problems with royal marriages. Three of the Queen's four children — Charles, Anne and Andrew — are now 5)_______.

Prince Charles, the Queen's oldest son, married Princess Diana in 1981. Diana was young and beautiful and the newspapers and television were very interested 6)_____ her. Soon she was 7)______than Charles, her husband. But her marriage to Charles was not happy. When Diana died in a car accident in 1997 with her lover, Dodi Fayed, many British people were very sad. In April 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, a friend of more than thirty years.

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