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1. Mr. Brown got to a hotel late in the evening. At the same time another traveller came to the hotel. The only vacant room was a double room. They spoke to each other and agreed to spend the night in the same room.

2. Mr. Brown couldn’t find the matches, so he tried to find the window. He thought he had found it. Mr. Brown took a chair and broke the window with it. The sick man stopped moaning at once.

3. When they woke up next morning they were surprised to see that the only window in the room was still closed, but the large looking-glass was broken to pieces.

4. At night Mr. Brown was woken up by the second traveller. He felt very bad and asked to open the window to have some fresh air because he suffered from asthma.

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1. He was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University. Now he is teaching at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 1967, from the story by Lee Minoff, he wrote the screenplay for The Beatles 1968 motion picture, Yellow Submarine.

2. Erich Segal is an American author, screenwriter and educator, whose books have popularity with the reading public. Erich Wolf Segal was born in 1937 in Brook Lyn, New York. He attended Harvard University. After graduating from it in 1958 he obtained his master’s degree and a doctorate.

3. What constitutes the main value of Erich Segal’s books in that the writer helps people become sensitive to everyday problems. He brings up a lot of questions for discussion.

4. His book “Love Story” became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States. His novels “The Class” (1985), “Doctors” were also bestsellers.

3. Расставьте абзацы в логической последовательности

1. At night Mr. Brown was woken up by the second traveler. He felt very bad and asked to open the window to have some fresh air because he suffered from asthma.

2. Mr. Brown got to a hotel late in the evening. At the same time another traveler came to the hotel. The only vacant room was a double room. They spoke to each other and agreed to spend the night in the same room.

3. Mr. Brown couldn’t find the matches, so he tried to find the window. He thought he had found it. Mr. Brown took a chair and broke the window with it. The sick man stopped moaning at once.

4. When they woke up next morning they were surprised to see that the only window in the room was still closed, but the large looking-glass was broken to pieces.

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1. Douglas Coupland is really an amazing contemporary writer; he paints a vivid picture with words like no one else. He really adequately shows generation X.

2. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film “Everything’s Gone Green”, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work.

3. Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born in a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan

4. His first novel, “Generation X”, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages. There are some books that reflect the philosophy of the young: “Microserfs”, “Life after God”, “Girlfriend in a Coma”, “Hey, Nostradamus”, etc.