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Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст и выполните задания после него. Для Вашего удобства каждое пятое предложение в тексте пронумеровано. Текст (1) The butler closed the door behind them and ushered her into a dark foyer. He led her into a parlor every bit as gloomy as the foyer. “A day before the wedding, her intended jilted her and it destroyed her,” the caretaker’s words suddenly came to Fiona’s mind. “Miss Finnegan to see you, madam,” he said, closing the doors after him. (5) It took Fiona’s eyes, used to the bright sunshine, a few seconds to adjust. Then she saw her. She wore a crisp black sil…

Read the fable and write down the moral it contains in the space below the fable. The Ant and the Grasshopper Fable. In the field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. “Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?” “I'm helping to lay up food for winter,&r…

Write the appropriate ending to the story given below.after Somerset Maugham The Third Wish (after Joan Aiken) Once Mr. Peters was driving in his car at dusk. He entered a straight, empty stretch of road and heard a faint crying, and a struggling and thrashing, as if somebody was in trouble far away in the trees. He left his car and climbed the mossy bank beside the road. Then he saw the gleam of water. Coming closer he found that it was a swan that had become entangled in the tho…

Write the appropriate ending to the story given below.after Somerset Maugham I suppose every family has a black sheep. Tom had been a sore trial to his for twenty years. He had begun life decently enough: he went into business, married, and had two children. The Ramsays were perfectly respectable people and there was every reason to suppose that Tom Ramsay would have a useful and honourable career. But one day, without warning, he announced that he didn't like work and that he was…