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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.

All English universities except Oxford and Cambridge are fairly new. London University is the biggest of the modern English universities and has many colleges and schools.

There are many types of colleges in England. Colleges give a specialized training.

There are teachers’ training colleges. Those who wish to become teachers spend three years at a teachers’ training college. They study various subjects and learn how to teach, they have practice lessons at schools.

All universities admit men and women. Most of the universities provide hostels for their students.

This happened in Australia, during a water-polo game. Suddenly one of the players jumped out of the water and ran to the referee. He said that one of the forwards of the other team had bitten him in the leg.

They began again, but a few minutes later, two players, one from each team, climbed out of the water, shouting that somebody had bitten them. There was blood on both players’ legs.

The game was stopped, and they began to let the water out of the pool. When almost all the water was let out, everybody saw a young crocodile at the bottom of the pool. Somebody had put the crocodile into the pool, but why?

After the game the players returned to their dressing-room and found a letter there. “I have been a water-polo fan for many years,” the author of the letter wrote, “and I am not satisfied with the way the players act. I have decided that I must do something. I think my crocodile will make them move faster.”

There is no doubt that speed and constant change have made hockey one of the most popular games in the world. The number of fans watching hockey games in stadiums or on TV is increasing from year to year.

Canada is the birthplace of ice-hockey, and for many years held first place in international competitions. But now Canada is not the only one on the top of the list of world champions.

Russian teams have won the first prize again and again in international competitions. Commentators and hockey experts speak of the speed and technical perfection of the Russian players.

But perhaps more important is the fact that Russian players act together as a team. This is usually more important than the talent of any one member of the team.

An old man had seven sons, who never agreed with each other. Each of them was always sure that he was right.

One day the old man called his sons to him. He took seven sticks tied together and gave the sticks to the boys. “Try to break them,” he said. The boys tried hard, but they couldn't break the sticks.

He took the sticks and untied them. Then he gave one stick to each boy and said, “Now, try to break the sticks!” This was not difficult, of course. Each boy immediately broke the stick that he held in his hands.

“That is what I wanted to show you,” their father said. “Like the seven sticks, you are strong when you are united. Let this serve as a lesson to you, to live in peace and friendship.