Вопрос № 348544 - Английский язык

Three men came to New York on holiday. Having taken the room at the hotel they went to amuse themselves. Their room happened to be on the forty-fifth floor.

In the evening the young men went to the cinema and then to the restaurant to have supper there. They came back to the hotel very late. On coming back they found out that the lifts in the hotel didn’t work at night.

“I am very sorry”, said the clerk of the hotel, “but if you don’t want to walk up in your room you can sleep in the hall.” But the young men preferred to sleep in their room. And then Alan said to his friend, “I think I Know how to make it easy for us to walk up to the forty-fifth floor. On our way to the room we’ll tell each other some jokes and funny stories.”

They began to walk up to their room. Having come to the forty-fifth floor, they were out of breath and being very tired they decided to have a rest. “Now listen to my story,” said Bernard, “it will not be long, but it will be sad enough. We have left the key to our room in the hall downstairs.”

George Harrison was born in 1943 in Liverpool, England. When he was 12 years old, he met and became good friends with Paul McCartney who was a member of John Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen.

Three years later George, a gifted guitar player, joined the band too. In the early 1960’s the band changed its name to The Beatles. In 1970 The Beatles disbanded.

But Harrison’s solo career was just beginning. George went on to release many songs. He also started his own record and movie companies. He was deeply interested in charity work.

George Harrison died of cancer at the age of 58. He will always be remembered as a talented musician as well as a caring and generous man.

Mark Twain was very fond of travelling. Once he was travelling in France by train. He was going to visit a small town near Paris.

The previous day was very hard, and Mark Twain felt tired and sleepy. He was afraid he would miss that town and asked the guard to wake him up before they got to the town. Soon he fell asleep.

When he woke up, the train was in Paris. He got very angry. He could not understand why the guard had not woken him up in time. He went out of the compartment, came up to the guard and asked him why he had not woken him up. The guard looked at Mark Twain for a moment and then told him that he had done his best to keep his promise.

When the train was approaching the town, the guard woke up an American who did not want to get off the train in that small town. The guard was sure that the American was the very passenger who had asked to wake him up. So he put him off the train instead of Mark Twain. “You may be very angry with me,” said the guard, “but not so angry as the American whom I put off the train instead of you”.

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