- •I Tick the right answer.
- •II Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
- •III Choose the right answer and explain your choice.
- •IV Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings. Note that there is
- •I Tick the right answer and prove it by the text.
- •II a) Find the three elements which, taken together, suggest that one
- •III Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
- •IV Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings.
- •I Tick the right answer and justify your choice.
- •II Complete the following sentences putting one word in each space.
- •I Circle the right letter.
- •II Find the answers in the text.
- •III Reread Paragraph One and decide which is the right answer to
- •IV Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings.
- •I Circle the right answer.
- •II Say whether the following statements are True or False and justify
- •III Two solutions to the problems mentioned in the passage are
- •IV Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings. Note that there is one answer you do not need to use.
I Tick the right answer and prove it by the text.
1 The scene is laid in … .
a) Great Britain b) a city in the U.S. c) in rural America
2 The conversation takes place … .
a) in a bank d) in the middle of an avenue
b) in an apartment e) on an island off the Pacific coast
c) on a bench in a park
3 The text is mostly … .
a) an old man’s reminiscences
b) a dialogue between two strangers
c) the revelation of a strange intention
d) a dialogue between two businessmen
e) the meeting of a young man with a spaceman
4 In the text, … .
a) the characters work out a plan together
b) two businessmen discuss future investments
c) one man wants the other to carry out his plan
d) the two characters discuss another character’s plan
e) the narrator rejects the other man’s plan and thinks of another
5 Fogg objects to Effing’s plan because … .
a) he fears people’s reactions
b) he fears Effing might go bankrupt
c) it would be too difficult to find the heirs
d) he is afraid that Effing might be arrested
c) a meddlesome woman eavesdrops on them
II a) Find the three elements which, taken together, suggest that one
of the characters is blind, and give the character’s name.
1 ………. ………. ………. ……….
2 ………. ………. ………. ……….
3 ………. ………. ………. ……….
Name: ………. ……….
b) Find the three elements to prove that one of the characters does
not want to be overheard, and give the character’s name.
1 ………. ………. ………. ……….
2 ………. ………. ………. ……….
3 ………. ………. ………. ……….
Name: ………. ……….
III Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
justify your answers.
1 Effing is convinced that he will die shortly.
T |
F |
2 He doesn’t care what happens after his death.
T |
F |
3 He is highly suspicious.
T |
F |
4 He has a high opinion of the place he lives in.
T |
F |
5 Fogg is sure Effing is pulling his leg.
T |
F |
IV Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings.
Line Number |
Phrasal Verb |
|
Meaning Match |
Line 10 |
to go over |
a |
to discover a piece of information |
Line 15 |
to get around to |
b |
to do smth eventually |
Line 16 |
to be up |
c |
to end |
Line 17 |
to make out |
d |
to examine thoroughly |
Line 21 |
to hit on |
e |
to find someone or something after a long search |
Line 30 |
to find out |
f |
to have a sudden idea |
Line 33 |
to track down |
g |
to write |
TEXT 13 THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (II)
After Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (1917-1967) – American author
(The events in this 1940 novel take place in the South of the United States. Mick Kelly is a sensitive even if a tomboyish young girl who
loves music and dreams of buying a piano. But the destiny of
Ms McCullers' character is resolved thus: Mick Kelly is doomed to
a life of wage slavery in a five-and-ten-cent store.)
This summer Mick realized something about her Dad she had never known before. It was a night in late August and she was in a big rush. Her Dad called her and she went into the front room. He was sitting slumped over his work-bench.
“I got so much work to do I don’t know where to begin,” he said. That was just the opposite to the truth and he knew it good as she did. He never had many watches to fix. Ever since he broke his hip and couldn’t work steady he had to be doing something every minute. She was in such a hurry that it was hard to stand still. Her Dad noticed this. He
(10) tried to say something – but he had not called to tell her anything special. He only wanted to talk to her for a little while. He started to speak and swallowed. They just looked at each other.
That was when she realized about her Dad. It wasn’t like she was learning a new fact – she had understood it all along in every way except with her brain. Now she just suddenly knew that she knew about her Dad. He was lonesome and he was an old man.
Because none of the kids went to him for anything and because he didn’t earn much money he felt like he was cut off from the family. And in his lonesomeness he wanted to be close to one of his kids – and they (20) were all so busy that they didn’t know it. He felt like he wasn’t much real use to anybody.
That night she sat down in a chair by his bench and they talked a while. He talked about accounts and expenses and how things would have been if he had just managed in a different way. She stayed with him a
good while that night. Even if she was in an awful hurry. Yet for some reason she couldn’t tell him about the things in her mind – about the hot, dark nights.
Whenever she was in the dark, she thought about music. While she walked along the streets she would sing to herself. And she felt like the (30) whole town listened without knowing it was Mick Kelly. When she walked out in the rich parts of town every house had a radio. After a while she knew which houses tuned in for the programmes she wanted to hear. There was once special house that got all the good orchestras. And at night she would go to that house and sneak into the dark yard to listen.
NOTES
for a little while – for some time
swallowed – here: made a movement in his throat as if swallowing food
all along- all the time
a while – a certain period of time
a good while – a fairly long time
tuned in – listened to a particular radio programme or station
EXERCISES