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“No, it’s not after all”. At a quarter to one, dirty and tired he said: “That will do”, and rose from the ground.

Neither of us had any wish to go for a bicycle ride now, and so Ebbson go home. After he was gone I took the bicycle to the nearest repair shop. The man looked at it and said: “It won’t be easy to repair tills bicycle, but I shall do my best”. He did his best, and I paid two pounds for it. But it was never the same machine again and at the end the summer I sold it. Yes, there are two ways of getting sport out of bicycle: one can repair it. But it is impossible to get both forms of sport out of the same machine: no machine will stand it.

II.Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1.Are there people who are fond of repairing things?

2.Who suggested going for a bicycle ride?

3.What was a first thing Ebbson did?

4.Did the author notice that either of the wheels wobbled?

5.What did Ebbson say about the front wheel?

6.Did the author think that Ebbson really knew something about repairing things?

7.What did Ebbson say about the cause of “wobbling” of the front wheel?

8.What happened with the ball bearings when he took them off the front wheel?

9.When did it become clear to the author that Ebbson knew nothing about the business?

10.How much time did it take them to put the gear-case into the position?

11.What did Ebbson exclaim after it?

12.What was the little dog doing at that time?

13.What was the result of Ebbson’s repairing?

14.What are the two ways of getting sport out of bicycle?

III.Перескажите текст:

1.от имени автора;

2.от имени Эббсона.

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