Вопрос № 605225 - Английский язык

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Everyone knows that tea is the most popular drink in Britain. 1_______. The Dutch brought the first tea to Europe in 1610. 2_______. At that time a pound of the cheapest tea cost about one-third of skilled worker's weekly wages. 3_______. Later, tea-drinking developed into a fashionable social ritual. Tea parties were popular at home and soon the ritual of "afternoon tea" was firmly established.
4_______. Tea in Britain is brewed in a teapot. Then one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot are added. Most people in Britain prefer a rich, strong cup of tea with milk, and sugar is sometimes added to taste.

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There was a time when many people in Europe had never even heard of tea. This anecdote is about an old woman and her son, who lived before tea-drinking became popular in England.
He was a sea captain, and every time he returned from a far-away country, he brought his mother a gift. Once the young man came back from India with a box of tea for his mother. She didn’t know, anything about tea, but she was proud of her son, and she invited all her friends to come and try the tea. When her son came into the room, he saw cakes and fruit and jam on the table, and a big plate full of brown tea-leaves. His mother and her friends were sitting round the table, eating the leaves with butter and salt. Though they all smiled, it was clear that they didn’t enjoy eating the leaves.
“Where is the tea, Mother?” the captain asked. “Where is the water?”
“The water!” his mother said. “I threw the water away, of course!”
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The old woman was proud of her son when he came back from a far-away country _____.

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The English Sunday is no longer the quiet day of rest it was in the past. Writing letters, reading novels, playing the piano or violin, riding a bicycle or motorcycle, visiting picture galleries, exhibitions, museums or the Zoo, going to an afternoon or evening concert, all that is no longer considered improper. Even some cinemas are now open on Sundays and most of the West End restaurants give some music during the dinner hours.
But in many other respects, things have remained as they were. People do not go to business on Sunday; only a few small shops are open; no letters are delivered in London, except by “Express Sunday Delivery”. The railways, trolley-buses and trams run less frequently than on week-days. A few Sunday newspapers only are published; the theatres and music halls are closed.
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The theatres and music halls _____.

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 One of Mark Twain’s hobbies was fishing. He went fishing even in the closed season, when fishing was not allowed. Like all fishermen, he sometimes invented stories about the number of fish he caught.
One hot day during the closed season, Mark Twain was fishing under a low bridge. A man who was walking across the bridge noticed Mark Twain and began to watch him. At last he asked, “Have you caught many fish?”
“Not yet,” Mark Twain answered. “I have only just begun. But yesterday I caught thirty great big fish here.”
“You were very lucky,” the man said. “Do you know who I am?”
“No,” Mark Twain said. “I don’t think I ever met you before.”
“I’m the fishing inspector in this place. Do you know that this is the closed season?”
Mark Twain understood how foolish he had been. “Do you know who I am?” he asked.
“No, of course not,” answered the inspector.
“I am the biggest liar on the Mississippi,” Mark Twain told him.
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The man who stopped to talk to Mark Twain was _____.

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There was a time when many people in Europe had never even heard of tea. This anecdote is about an old woman and her son, who lived before tea-drinking became popular in England.
He was a sea captain, and every time he returned from a far-away country, he brought his mother a gift. Once the young man came back from India with a box of tea for his mother. She didn’t know, anything about tea, but she was proud of her son, and she invited all her friends to come and try the tea. When her son came into the room, he saw cakes and fruit and jam on the table, and a big plate full of brown tea-leaves. His mother and her friends were sitting round the table, eating the leaves with butter and salt. Though they all smiled, it was clear that they didn’t enjoy eating the leaves.
“Where is the tea, Mother?” the captain asked. “Where is the water?”
“The water!” his mother said. “I threw the water away, of course!”
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The old woman was proud of her son when he came back from a far-away country _____.

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 Tom Robinson’s parents were poor, so Tom had to go to work when he was still a boy. It wasn’t easy to find work that he could do: Tom was small and thin. At last he got a place in an office where the work wasn’t too hard, though there was much of it. Tom was paid only six shillings a week for his work. He wasn’t satisfied with the low pay. But for a long time he was afraid to ask for a rise. At last he decided to go to Mr. Marton’s office and ask for a rise. He decided that he would not leave the room until Mr. Marton had promised to give him four shillings more a week.
He slowly opened the door and asked: “May I speak to you, sir?” Tom’s voice sounded much smaller and thinner, as he told him that he wanted a rise of four shillings.
“You are an honest boy and not afraid of work,” Mr. Marton said. “But don’t you think that ten shillings is too much for such a small boy?”
“No, I don’t,” Tom answered. “I am older than I look. To tell you the truth, since I have worked here, I have been so busy that I haven’t had time to grow.”
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One day Tom came into Mr. Marton’s office and told him that _____.