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2. I shall enter that cottage, and I shall probe ____ _______ __ __
_______.
3. No, no, Jack, for God's sake! she gasped in uncontrollable emotion.
Then, as I approached the door, she _______ my sleeve and pulled me back
with convulsive strength.
4. There was such earnestness, such despair, in her manner that her
words arrested me, and I stood ___________before the door.
5. You are ___ __________to preserve your secret, but you must
promise me that there shall be no more nightly visits, no more doings which
are kept from my knowledge.
6. Still pulling at my sleeve, she _____ ___ _____from the cottage.
7. __________ with anger, I _________ _______ and________
_______, determined to end the matter once and forever.
8. That was comfortable and elegant, and all my suspicions_______
____ __ _____, bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece
stood a
copy of a full-length photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my
request only three months ago.
Exercise # 9.
Look at the statements numbered 1-10; if the statement is true put
T, F if the statement is false or N if there is no information given.
1. My wife gets off into the hall as I entered my house; but I was too
hurt and angry to speak with her, and, pushing past her, I made my way into
my study.
2. 'Until you tell me who it is that has been living in that cottage, and
who it is to whom you have given that photograph, there can never be any
confidence between us,' said I, and breaking away from her I left the house.
3. It isn’t the first shadow that has come between us, and it has so
shaken me that I do not know what I should do for the best.
4. "Tell me," said he at last, "could you vow that this was a man's face
which you saw at the window?"
5. Let me advise you, then, to return to Norbury and to investigate the
windows of the cottage again.
6. "Well, it must be the protégé who lives in the only comfortable room
in the place and has her photograph above his fireplace.
7. "You have a theory?" "Yes, a provisional one. But I shall be
surprised if it does turn out to be correct.
8. The facts, as I read them, are something like this: This woman was
married in Africa.
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9. She has been married three years and believes that her position is
quite secure, having shown her husband the death certificate of some man
whose name she has assumed, when suddenly her whereabouts is
discovered by her first husband, or, we may suppose, by some unscrupulous
woman who has attached herself to the invalid.
10. They write to the wife and threaten to come and unmask her.
Exercise # 10.
Choose the sentences which have no factual and grammar mistakes.
a) Having success, she goes again next morning, and her husband meets
her, as he has told us, as she comes out.
b) She promises him then not to go there again, but two days
afterwards the hope of getting rid of those dreadful neighbours was too
strong for her, and she made another attempt, taking down with her the
photograph which had probably been demanded from her.
c) In the midst of this interview the maid rushed in to say that the
master had come home, on which the wife, knowing that he would come
straight down to the cottage, hurried the inmates out at the back door, into
the grove of fir-trees, probably, which was mentioned as standing near. In
this way he found the place deserted.
d) What do you think of my theory? It is all suspicion.
e) They are not there, Mr. Holmes," said he, laying his hand hard upon
my friend's sleeve. "But I saw lights in the cottage as I came down. We shall
settle it now once and for all.
f) I am going to force my way in and see for myself who is in the
house. I wish you both to be there as participants.
g) He shoved her to one side, and we followed closely after him.
h) As he threw the door open an old woman ran across in front of him
and tried to bar his passage, but he thrust her back, and an instant afterwards
we were all upon the stairs.
i) It was a cosy, well-furnished apartment, with twenty two candles
burning upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece.
j) Her face was turned away as we entered, but we could see that she
was dressed in a red frock, and that she had long white gloves on.
Exercise # 11.
Choose two correct sentences.
a) It is often so in such matches, and little Lucy is darker far than ever
her father was. But dark or fair, she is my own dear little girlie, and her
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mother's pet." The little creature ran across at the words and pressed herself
against the lady's dress.
b) God forgive me, I soothed that I should lose you, and I had not the
courage to tell you.
c) For three years I have concealed her existence from you, but I heard
from the nurse, and I knew that all was well with her.
d) At last, however, there came an overwhelming desire to see the child
once more. I struggled against it, but unjustly.
e) Though I knew the danger, I impelled to have the child over, if it
were but for a few weeks.
f) I pushed my precautions so far as to order her to keep the child in the
house during the daytime, and to cover up her little face and hands so that
even those who might see her at the window should not confessed about
there being a black child in the neighbourhood.
Exercise # 12.
Give a summary of the whole text.
Exercise # 13.
Pick out from the text adjectives and other words used to
characterize:
a) Mr. Grant Munro
b) Effie
c) Sherlock Holmes
Exercise # 14.
Quote the text to prove that: a) Pipes are occasionally of
extraordinary interest; b) Mr. Grant Munro has been married for three
years. During that time he and his wife have loved each other as fondly
and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined; c) I could not
make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman
about the face; d) my wife had gone over there and had asked the
servant to call her if I should return. Tingling with anger, I rushed
down and hurried across, determined to end the matter once and
forever.
Exercise # 15.
Retell the story according to the outline below:
I. Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's
sake.
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II. Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest.
III. "The facts are these, Mr. Holmes," said he. "I am a married man
and have been so for three years".
IV. I want a hundred pounds.
V. I don't know what there was about that face, Mr. Holmes, but it
seemed to send a chill right down my back. I was some little way off, so that
I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and
inhuman about the face.
VI. I swear that I will tell you everything some day, but nothing but
misery can come of it if you enter that cottage.
VII. On the third day however, I had ample evidence that her solemn
promise was not enough to hold her back from this secret influence which
drew her away from her husband and her duty.
VIII. This woman's first husband is in that cottage.
IX. It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned
from the highroad into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either
side. Mr. Grant Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we
stumbled after him as best we could.
X. “We can talk it over more comfortably at home,” said he. “I am not
a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have
given me credit for being”.
Exercise # 16.
Topics for discussion:
1. “White lie,” good or bad?
2. Fear that prevents you from telling the truth.
3. Family life, private or public?
Exercise # 17.
Translate the text below from Russian into English.
Интересное кино
(по одноименному рассказу Б. Ласкина)
Некоторые люди думают, что кино – это просто развлечение. Это
неправда.
Я считаю, что кино – это большое искусство
. Оно усиливает работу
мозга и развивает фантазию. Каждый киноработник должен иметь не
только фантазию, а творческую фантазию, потому что он должен
придумывать не только для себя, но и для людей. Я это знаю точно.
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В нашем доме живет известный кинорежиссер Мамыкин. Недавно
он получил приглашение на просмотр фильма в доме кино. Жена
обрадовалась и говорит:
– Интересно. Надо обязательно пойти.
Мамыкин говорит:
– Очень жаль, но это невозможно, потому что приглашение на
«одно лицо».
– Значит, одно лицо будет смотреть фильм, а другое лицо будет
весь
вечер скучать дома.
Мамыкин говорит:
– Ты не расстраивайся, дорогая, я тебе потом расскажу этот фильм.
В субботу вечером Мамыкин надел новый костюм, свежую
рубашку, взял свое приглашение и уехал в Дом кино.
Жена режиссера посмотрела телевизор, почитала и легла спать.
Когда Мамыкин вернулся домой, его жена проснулась сразу и
говорит
:
– Сейчас я приготовлю чай, ты расскажешь мне все, что было в
Доме кино.
Мамыкин говорит:
– пожалуйста.
Жена поставила чай, варенье на стол и села на диван слушать.
Мамыкин подумал немного, а потом говорит:
– Это был странный фильм, реалистический и фантастический
одновременно. Марокко. Солнечный день. Торговец сахаром приехал
на бензоколонку
, чтобы заправить машину. Это уже не молодой
человек. Он серьезно болен. У него амнезия после автомобильной
аварии.
На бензоколонке он встречает девушку. Она заправляет его
машину. Он внимательно смотрит на девушку, которую зовут Ева, и
начинает вспоминать … Он студент, идет по улице, и вдруг из-за угла
дома выходит девушка
в чадре с интеллигентным лицом. Студент
видит, что эта девушка в чадре очень похожа на девушку с
бензоколонки. Понимаешь? Одно лицо.
Мамыкин сделал паузу, потому что было не просто вспоминать все
детали этого фильма. А пока он молчал, его жена сказала:
– Боже мой, какая богатая фантазия!
Мамыкин выпил чай, а
потом опять начал рассказывать:
– Торговец заплатил за бензин и говорит девушке с бензоколонки:
«Я помню вас. Первый раз я встретился с вами в тысяча девятьсот
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тридцать пятом году». Ева говорит: «Это невозможно. Я родилась в
сорок седьмом». Тогда торговец мылом говорит: «Садитесь в машину.
Мы поедем сейчас в прошлое». Она села в машину, и они поехали.
Торговец уже в Скандинавии. Море, на берегу мальчик и девочка.
Мальчик похож на торговца, а девочка похожа на девушку, которая
заправляла его машину на бензоколонке.
Мамыкин опять сделал паузу, а его жена сказала:
– Какой интересный сюжет! Не каждый может придумать такое.
Мамыкин сказал:
– Ты слушай дальше! Дальше будет очень интересно.
Жена сказала:
– Я слушала тебя так внимательно, что немного устала. Ты мне
расскажешь конец фильма завтра.
Мамыкин обрадовался. Трудно
рассказать за один вечер все, что
видел и понял за один вечер. Он сказал:
– Ты знаешь, дорогая, почему я так люблю рассказывать тебе?
Потому что ты умеешь слушать. А сейчас ты будешь рассказывать, а я
буду слушать.
Жена сказала:
– Что я могу рассказать?
– Что ты делала вечером, пока я
был в Доме кино?
– Ничего особенного.
– Никто не звонил?
– Звонили. Как только ты ушел, позвонили из Дома кино и сказали,
что просмотр фильма отменили и перенесли на следующую среду.
Мамыкин помолчал, закурил сигарету фильтром наружу и сказал:
– Жаль.
А жена ответила:
– Да, очень жаль.
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Dame Agatha Christie
1890–1976
Dame Agatha Christie (pseudonym Mary
Westmacott) (1890–1976), prolific English
‘Queen of Crime’ created such famous
detectives as Hercule Poirot, the eccentric
Belgian who relied on his keen grasp of logic
to nab crooks saying:
“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and
vary your methods as you will, your tastes,
your habits, your attitude of mind, and your
soul is revealed by your actions;” and an
English spinster Miss Jane Marple (partly
inspired by her maternal grandmother) who
used her feminine intuition to solve crime.
Her motto was:
“The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people
know the young people are fools.”
Some of Christie’s best-known works are The ABC Murders (1936),
And Then There Were None [also known as Ten Little Indians] (1945), The
Mousetrap (longest ever running stage play in London, first performed in
1952), Hickory Dickory Dock (1955), Witness for the Prosecution (1957),
Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). From
her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
Christie enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years and her works
have now sold into the billions. They have been translated to dozens of
languages, inspired numerous other authors’ works, and have been adapted
to radio, the stage, and film. As well as a writer of crime mysteries, she also
read stories for BBC Radio, wrote non-fiction, romances, plays, and poetry.
Born in the family home Ashfield in Torquay, Devon, England on 15
September 1890, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three
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children born to Clarissa ‘Clara’ Margaret née Boehmer (1855-1926) and
American Frederick Alvah Miller (1846-1901), who died when Agatha was
just ten years old. The shy and sensitive Agatha, who was very close to her
mother, had an older sister, Margaret ‘Madge’ (1879-1950) and brother
Louis ‘Monty’ Montant (1880-1929). The family attended All Saint’s
Church where Agatha was baptised. While she received no formal
education, her mother and then governesses taught her at home to read
before she entered finishing school in Paris, France in 1906. Having long
been encouraged by her mother to write, Agatha continued to write there
while also studying music (which became a life-long love), singing, and
piano.
On 24 December 1914, at the age of twenty-four, Christie married
Royal Flying Corps pilot Archie Christie, with whom she would have a
daughter, Rosalind (1919-2004). During WWI Agatha worked as a nurse,
tending to the ill and injured, many who were displaced Belgians. Their
bewilderment and personal sorrows affected her deeply. She amassed a
great deal of knowledge about sicknesses and poisons such as strychnine
and ricin that she often featured in her novels. Around this time she also
started writing her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, an immediate
best-seller. In 1926, profoundly grieving the death of her mother, Christie
created some mystery of her own, disappearing for a time; when she was
found she claimed that she had had a bout of amnesia.
In 1928, Archie divorced Agatha. She then set off on her first of many
trips to the Middle East, travelling on the famed Orient Express from Calais,
France to Baghdad, Iraq, then on to the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia.
It was on her second trip there she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir
Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, (1904-1978). They were married in Scotland
on 11 September 1930. She often accompanied him on digs as a member of
the team, photographing and cataloguing finds. In 1960 Max was honoured
as Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1968 knighted for his
archaeological work. Christie herself won many awards and honours in her
life-time including; 1955, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand
Master award; 1961, awarded an honorary degree from Exeter University;
1967, became president of The British Detection Club; and in 1971 she
received England’s highest honour, the Order of the British Empire, Dame
Commander.
In 1974 Christie appeared for the last time in public on opening night
for her play Murder on the Orient Express. When she was not travelling the
world, her and Max’s home in England was in the town of Wallingford,
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Oxfordshire, where she died peacefully on 12 January 1976. Max survived
her by two years. They now rest together in the Parish Church cemetery of
St. Mary’s in Cholsey, Oxfordshire.
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you
finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly you
find—at the age of fifty, say–that a whole new life has opened before you,
filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a
fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”—An Autobiography
(1977).
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE “WESTERN STAR”
By Agatha Christie
Part I
I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the
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street below.
'That's queer,' I ejaculated suddenly beneath my breath.
'What is, mon ami?' asked Poirot placidly
comfortable chair.
'Deduce, Poirot, from the following facts! Here is a young lady, richly
dressed – fashionable hat, magnificent furs. She is coming along slowly,
looking up at the houses as she goes. Unknown to her, she is being
shadowed by three men and a middle-aged woman. They have just been
joined by an errand boy who points after the girl, gesticulating as he does
so. What drama is this being played? Is the girl a crook, and are the
shadowers detectives preparing to arrest her? Or are they the scoundrels
and are they plotting to attack an innocent victim? What does the great
detective say?'
'The great detective, mon ami, chooses, as ever, the simplest course. He
rises to see for himself.' And my friend joined me at the window.
In a minute he gave vent to an amused chuckle.
'As usual, your facts are tinged with your incurable romanticism. That
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is Miss Mary Marvell, the film star. She is being followed by a bevy
admirers who have recognized her. And, en passant, my dear Hastings, she
is quite aware of the fact!'
I laughed.
'So all is explained! But you get no marks for that, Poirot. It was a mere
matter of recognition.'
'En vérité! And how many times have you seen Mary Marvell on the
screen, mon cher?'
I thought.
'About a dozen times perhaps.'
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, from the depths of his
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of
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