Вопрос № 605232 - Английский язык

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One day, some Americans were having dinner at a hotel in London. When the fish was put on the table, a young man said: “Let’s examine the fish carefully. Perhaps we’ll find a diamond in it.” Everybody began to laugh, but an old man said: “Yes, I’m sure we have all heard such stories. Let me tell you what happened to me once.”
“When I was a young man,” he began, “I worked for a big company in New York; and I was sent to England to do some work there. I was in love with a beautiful girl, and before I left for England, we decided that we would be married when I returned home.
“I stayed in England for two months. I sent letters to the girl almost every day, but I didn’t receive any answers. And before I left for home, I bought a beautiful diamond ring for her. “On the ship one morning, a telegram was brought to me. It told me that the girl was going to be married to another man, I was so angry that I threw the diamond ring into the sea.
“My friend came to the port to meet me, and he invited me to dinner. When we were sitting down at the table and I was eating fish, I suddenly felt something hard in my mouth. What do you think it was?”
“The diamond!” all the Americans cried.
“No,” the old man answered. “It was a fish bone.”
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When a story-teller was a young man _____.

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John’s mother stood near the 1_______ fire and her dress caught fire. John heard her scream and ran into her room. “Lie down!” he ordered and covered the flame with a carpet. The flames went out without air. “Don’t 2_______, mother,” he said. “You’ll be all right.”
“Don’t take the pieces of burnt dress off your 3_______. Get into the bath with your clothes on.” John helped her.
” Keep your leg under water for ten minutes,” he said. He telephoned for an ambulance. When John’s mother got out of the bath, he wrapped her leg in a clean cotton tablecloth. Every 10 minutes he gave her drink. Soon the 4_______ came and took her to hospital.

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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 _____.

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 A young man walking in the street saw a girl in front of him who seemed very beautiful to him. He ran forward to look at her face, and it was beautiful too.
“I have fallen in love with you,” the young man cried. “Let me kiss, your hand. I want to marry you.”
“Wait!” the young woman answered. “Go and look at my sister. She is walking there in front of us, and she is more beautiful than I am.”
The young man immediately ran to look at the other woman. But finding her old and not beautiful at all, he ran back to the girl. “You didn’t tell me the truth!” he said. “Aren’t you ashamed to tell lies?”
“And aren’t you ashamed to say the word ‘truth’?” the girl answered. “You said you loved me, but you were ready to run to any woman you thought was more beautiful. You don’t know what love is. I’ll never marry such a man!” And she walked away from him.
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The girl refused to marry the young man because _____.

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The press, television and radio (mass media) play an important part in the life of society. 1__________________________________. Some people say, “News is not what happens - it is what you see or read in mass media.” 2___________________________________. (Sometimes it is good, but sometimes terribly bad. It depends.)
3_________________________________. Television dominates one’s life if the family watches it most of the time. 4________________________________. It is also a habit-forming drug impossible to resist.

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1______________________________. During TV quiz programmes the questions are answered by the viewers.
2_____________________________. Some people find soap operas boring, others consider them to be good entertainment and relaxation.
3_______________________________. A lot of commercial firms buy the time to advertise their goods.
Advertising often annoys the general public. 4______________________________________.