Task II: Choose the correct answer. Write the number of the sentence and the letter, which corresponds to the answer you have chosen.

1. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were going:

   1. abroad on business. .

   2. abroad for their holiday.

   3. Abroad to se their friends.

2. They had:

   1. a dog called Black.

   2. a cat called Blackie.

   3. a dog called Blackie.

3. At last they found:

   1. a place which looked after the dogs well.

   2. people who looked after the dogs well.

   3. a place which looked after the animals, while their owners where away.

4. At the end of their holiday:

   1. they got back to England in the afternoon.

   2. they got back home very late.

   3. they got back to England very late at night.

5. They decided:

   1. to take their dog back next day.

   2. to wait until the next morning.

   3. to leave Blackie at that place.

6. The dog barked because he:

   1. had enjoyed his stay at that place.

   2. wanted to tell Mr. Brown something.

   3. was very happy to come back home.

7. The dog was trying to tell Mr. Brown:

   1. that he was very happy.

   2. that he loved him very mlich.

   3. that he was bringing the wrong dog home.

Варіант 5

The Real Mother

Once upon a time there lived two sisters. The elder sister had a son. The boy was one year old. The two women loved the baby dearly.

One day the sisters quarreled and at night the younger sister tried to leave the house with the

boy. The elder sister saw it and stopped her.

"You cannot take the boy. He's my son!" said the elder sister.

But the younger sister wanted to have the boy very much and she said: "I'll tell the judge the boy is mine. I love the baby so much that the judge wiU believe me".

So in the morning they went to the judge. Each woman told him that the baby was hers. The judge thought a little and then called his servants.

"Cut the child into two halves and give each woman a &alf of the boy", he said.

The younger sister didn't say a word, but. the elder told the judge: "I'm not the child's mother.

Give him to my sister and let him live".

The judge then said to the servants: "Give the boy to the elder sister. She is the real mother".

Task I: Mark the right statements "True" and the wrong ones "False ".

1. The elder sister had two sons.

2. The boys were one year old.

3. The younger sister didn't love the baby.

4. One day at night the younger sister tried to leave the house with the boy.

5. The elder sister couldn't stop her.

6. The younger sister made her older sister to go to the judge.

7. Each woman told the judge that, the baby was her.

8. The judge ordered his servants to cut the child into two halves.

9. The elder sister told the judge that she was not the child's mother.

10. The judge then said to give the boy to the younger sister.

Task II: Answer the following questions.

L Did the elder or younger sister have a son?

2. How old was the boy?

3. Why did the sisters quarrel one day?

4. What did the elder sister try to do at night?

5. Why did the younger sister want to go to the judge?

6. What did they tell the judge?

7. What did the judge order his servants to do?

8. How did the younger sister react upon the judge's order?

9. What did the eldest sister say?

10,Who was a real mother

ВАРІАНТ 6

A Wonderful Box

Once upon a time in a small village there lived a young man. His name was Jack. He had a wife and old parents. The family was so poor that there were no nice things in the house. One day Jack went to town to look for a job.

Some time passed and he came back with a box full of presents for everybody. He gave his mother a shawl, his father a warm cap and a shirt, his wife a beautiful dress. All of them liked the presents very much and were glad to have them. But Jack's wife wanted to know what else there was in the box.

So, when Jack went to see his friends; she opened the box and saw a beautiful young woman in it.

She got very angry and began to cry. When her father-in-law heard it, he asked why she was crying. She told him she was so angry because there was a young woman in the box. The old man thought it was strange and decided to look at the young woman. But when he opened the box, he saw no young woman there. An old man was looking at him from the box. Jack's father told his daughter-in-law that there was an old man in the box and not a young woman. But she didn't believe him and went on crying. She said Jack didn't love her. When Jack's mother heard the young woman's story, she didn't believe her either. She looked into the box and saw an old woman there.

So they began to look into the box in turn and Jack's wife saw a beautiful woman, Jack's father saw an old man, and Jack's mother saw an old woman there,

Soon Jack returned home, and when he came into the room, he saw his wife, his mother and father at the box. He laughed at them because they didn't know what they saw in the box. What was there in the box? Can you guess?