Test 2. (pre-intermediate level)

I. Reading.

Read the text and find the information from the text to complete the sentences.

The Terrible Miss Dove (After F.G. Patton)

Miss Dove was a teacher of geography at a school in a small town in America. She was very strict, and the pupils were afraid of her. If a pupil put a pencil or a piece of paper in his mouth. Miss Dove told him to go out and wash his mouth with soap and water. If a page in his exercise -book was not clean, he had to write it again. When a pupil asked her to let him go out, Miss Dove only looked at him, the class looked at him too; then the pupil sat down again at his desk.

At 1 o'clock the school bell rang for the break, but in the geography room 43 children sat at their desks and did not look up.

«Attention, please.» said Miss Dove and all the pupils looked at her. «Put your books in your desks». And the children quickly put their books in their desks. «Now you may leave the classroom». And the pupils walked out of the room one after the other without a word.

Miss Dove looked at her pupils, but she thought of the other children who learned geography in this room many years ago. The boys of that time were all at the war now. She remembered two of those boys very well. They went out of the classroom one day to drink some water. One of them, Tommy Baker, said «I'm not afraid of Miss Dove, I could beat her with my little finger». When he looked up, he saw Miss Dove near him. She looked at him a long lime, then she said, «Thomas Baker, you talk too much, don't you?»

«Yes, Miss Dove», Thomas whispered. He did not drink any water, but went back into the classroom. Miss Dove entered her classroom and began the lesson. In this class she had a boy whose name was Randy Baker. He was the brother of that boy. Tommy Baker, whom she remembered so well. Thomas Baker was now a sailor on a ship. The enemy bombed the ship and many people died. For many days Thomas was on a raft with no food and a little water. At last another ship picked him up. The story was in the newspaper.

Suddenly Randy Baker stood up and said that he had got a letter from his brother. Tommy got a medal for bravery and he writes about it in his letter, «Have you brought the letter?» asked Miss Dove. «If so, you may read this part to the class».

You want to know if I was afraid when the. enemy bombed us. The answer is yes, I was. But I was more afraid that day in school when I said that 1 could beat Miss Dove with my little finger, and she heard me. I did not run that lime, I told myself, and I shall not run now. And then, when I was on my raft like Robinson Crusoe, what do you think I thought about? I thought about Miss Dove and our school, and I ask you, to give the terrible Miss Dove a kiss for me.»

«Well, Randy,» said Miss Dove, «I'm ready». Randy stood with the letter in his hand, then he walked up to Miss Dove and gave her a kiss.

She looked at the class and the class looked at their teacher. Then one of the girls spoke. She said, «That is like a medal. Randy's brother has given Miss Dove a medal».

Task:

1) Miss Dove was a.......

2) The pupils were afraid of Miss Dove because........

3) Miss Dove remembered Tommy Baker because.....

4) Tommy Baker wrote a letter in which he......

5) Randy gave Miss Dove a kiss because......