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Выпуск No75


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Образовательные материалы и услуги,
основанные на работах Л. Рона Хаббарда

Выпуск № 22 (111) от 2010-06-10  
www.english-moscow.ru
Количество человек, получивших этот выпуск: 14732

INTRODUCTION

Ну вот и всё, мы дочитали очередной текст. Очень надеюсь, что вам он не только понравился, но и был полезен. Cегодня, чтобы закрепить результат, мы попробуем выполнить несколько упражнений по пройденному материалу. Жду предложений, какое произведение мы будем разбирать дальше, пишите.

EXERCISE 1 – READING

В первой части данного выпуска вам будет предложено перечитать текст, над которым работали всё это время, целиком. Правда, сейчас текст будет без перевода!

“THE ONE WHO WAITS”
by R. Bradbury

"Come out of it, Jones. Snap to it. We got to move!"

"Yes," I say, hypnotized with the way the word forms like water on the tongue and falls with slow beauty out into the air.

I walk and it is good walking. I stand high and it is a long way to the ground when I look down from my eyes and my head. It is like living on a fine cliff and being happy there.

Regent stands by the stone well, looking down. The others have gone murmuring to the silver ship from which they came.

I feel the fingers of my hand and the smile of my mouth.

"It is deep," I say.

"Yes."

"It is called a Soul Well."

Regent raises his head and looks at me. "How do you know that?"

"Doesn't it look like one?"

"I never heard of a Soul Well."

"A place where waiting things, things that once had flesh, wait and wait," I say, touching his arm.

The sand is fire and the ship is silver fire in the hotness of the day and the heat is good to feel. The sound of my feet in the hard sand. I listen. The sound of the wind and the sun burning the valleys. I smell the smell of the rocket boiling in the noon. I stand below the port.

"Where's Regent?" someone says.

"I saw him by the well," I reply.

One of them runs toward the well. I am beginning to tremble. A fine shivering tremble, hidden deep, but becoming very strong. And for the first time I hear it, as if it too were hidden in a well. A voice calling deep within me, tiny and afraid. And the voice cries, Let me go, let me go, and there is a feeling as if something is trying to get free, a pounding of labyrinthine doors, a rushing down dark corridors and up passages, echoing and screaming.

"Regent's in the well!"

The men are running, all five of them. I run with them but now I am sick and the trembling is violent.

"He must have fallen. Jones, you were here with him. Did you see? Jones? Well, speak up, man."

"What's wrong, Jones?"

I fall to my knees, the trembling is so bad.

"He's sick. Here, help me with him."

"The sun."

"No, not the sun," I murmur.

They stretch me out and the seizures come and go like earthquakes and the deep hidden voice in me cries, This is Jones, this is me, that's not him, that's not him, don't believe him, let me out, let me out! And I look up at the bent figures and my eyelids flicker. They touch my wrists.

"His heart is acting up."

I close my eyes. The screaming stops. The shivering ceases. I rise, as in a cool well, released.

"He's dead," says someone.

"Jones is dead."

"From what?"

"Shock, it looks like."

"What kind of shock?" I say, and my name is Sessions and my lips move crisply, and I am the captain of these men. I stand among them and I am looking down at a body which lies cooling on the sands. I clap both hands to my head.

"Captain!"

"It's nothing," I say, crying out. "Just a headache. I'll be all right. There. There," I whisper. "It's all right now."

"We'd better get out of the sun, sir."

"Yes," I say, looking down at Jones. "We should never have come. Mars doesn't want us."

We carry the body back to the rocket with us, and a new voice is calling deep in me to be let out.

Help, help. Far down in the moist earthen-works of the body. Help, help in red fathoms, echoing and pleading.

The trembling starts much sooner this time. The control is less steady.

"Captain, you'd better get in out of the sun, you don't look too well, sir."

"Yes," I say. "Help," I say.

"What, sir?"

"I didn't say anything."

"You said 'Help', sir."

"Did I, Matthews, did I?"

The body is laid out in the shadow of the rocket and the voice screams in the deep underwater catacombs of bone and crimson tide. My hands jerk. My mouth splits and is parched. My nostrils fasten wide. My eyes roll. Help, help, oh help, don't, don't, let me out, don't, don't.

"Don't," I say.

"What, sir?"

"Never mind," I say. "I've got to get free," I say. I clap my hand to my mouth.

"How's that, sir?" cries Matthews.

"Get inside, all of you, go back to Earth!" I shout.

A gun is in my hand. I lift it.

"Don't, sir!"

An explosion. Shadows run. The screaming is cut off. There is a whistling sound of falling through space.

After ten thousand years, how good to die. How good to feel the sudden coolness, the relaxation. How good to be like a hand within a glove that stretches out and grows wonderfully cold in the hot sand. Oh, the quiet and the loveliness of gathering, darkening death. But one cannot linger on.

"Good God, he's killed himself!" I cry, and open my eyes wide, and there is the captain lying against the rocket, his skull split by a bullet, his eyes wide, his tongue protruding between his white teeth. Blood runs from his head. I bend to him and touch him. "The fool," I say. "Why did he do that?"

The men are horrified. They stand over the two dead men and turn their heads to see the Martian sands and the distant well where Regent lies lolling in deep waters. A croaking comes out of their dry lips, a whimpering, a childish protest against this awful dream.

The men turn to me.

After a long while, one of them says, "That makes you captain, Matthews."

"I know," I say slowly.

"Only six of us left."

"Good God, it happened so quick!"

"I don't want to stay here, let's get out!"

The men clamor. I go to them and touch them now, with a confidence which almost sings in me. "Listen," I say, and touch their elbows or their arms or their hands.

We all fall silent.

We are one.

No, no, no, no, no, no! Inner voices crying, deep down and gone into prisons beneath exteriors.

We are looking at each other. We are Samuel Matthews and Raymond Moses and William Spaulding and Charles Evans and Forrest Cole and John Sumers, and we say nothing but look upon each other and our white faces and shaking hands.

We turn, as one, and look at the well.

"Now," we say.

No, no, six voices scream, hidden and layered down and stored forever.

Our feet walk in the sand and it is as if a great hand with twelve fingers were moving across the hot sea bottom.

We bend to the well, looking down. From the cool depths six faces peer back up at us.

One by one we bend until our balance is gone, and one by one drop into the mouth and down through cool darkness into the cold waters.

The sun sets. The stars wheel upon the night sky. Far out, there is a wink of light. Another rocket coming, leaving red marks on space.

I live in a well. I live like smoke in a well. Like vapor in a stone throat. Overhead I see the cold star of night and morning, and I see the sun. And sometimes I sing old songs of this world when it was young. How can I tell you what I am when even I don't know? I cannot.

I am simply waiting.

EXERCISE 2 – TRUE OR FALSE

В этой части вам будет ответить, верны ли следующие утверждения. Текст произведения, представленный выше, поможет вам это сделать!

1. Колодец назывался "Колодцем Души".

2. Тот, кто живёт в колодце, может вселяться в живых существ и брать их под контроль.

3. Люди, прилетевшие на Марс, потерялись в тёмном лабиринте.

4. Некоторые из прилетевших на Марс скоро заболели. У них началась лихорадка.

5. Джонес умер от сердечного приступа.

6. Капитана прилетевших на Марс людей звали Сэшинз.

7. Марсианин не смог полностью подчинить себе капитана корабля, и быстро начал терять контрол.

8. Сэшинз застрелился, после того как предупредил своих людей об опасности.

9. Прилетевшие на Марс люди так и не поняли происходящего.

10. Вся команда корабля утопилась в колодце.

EXERCISE 3 – WORDS

В этой части вам будут предложены слова, которые вы встречали в тексте, а также предложения, в которых пропущены эти слова. Вам необходимо вставить в пропущенные места слова, которые подходят по смыслу.

screams
ground
Earth
left
headache
Soul
prisons
sick
bend
sun
toward
die
earthquakes
control
killed

1) I stand high and it is a long way to the _______ when I look down from my eyes and my head.

2) "It is called a _______ Well."

3) One of them runs _______ the well.

4) The men are running, all five of them. I run with them but now I am _______ and the trembling is violent.

5) They stretch me out and the seizures come and go like _______...

6) "It's nothing," I say, crying out. "Just a _______. I'll be all right..."

7) "We'd better get out of the _______, sir."

8) The trembling starts much sooner this time. The _______ is less steady.

9) The body is laid out in the shadow of the rocket and the voice _______ in the deep underwater catacombs of bone and crimson tide.

10) "Get inside, all of you, go back to _______!" I shout.

11) After ten thousand years, how good to _______. How good to feel the sudden coolness, the relaxation.

12) "Good God, he's _______ himself!" I cry, and open my eyes wide...

13) "Only six of us _______."

14) Inner voices crying, deep down and gone into _______ beneath exteriors.

15) We _______ to the well, looking down.

EXERCISE 4 – PEDANTIC PART

В этой части вам нужно будет вставить нужный предлог или специальное выражение. Посмотрим, как вы усвоили самые педантичные части нашей рассылки!

1) "Come out of it, Jones. Snap to it. We _______ to move!"

2) "_______ do you know that?"

3) And for the first time I hear it, _______ it too were hidden in a well. A voice calling deep within me, tiny and afraid.

4) And the voice cries, Let me _______, let me _______, and there is a feeling as if something is trying to get free, a pounding of labyrinthine doors, a rushing down dark corridors and up passages, echoing and screaming.

5) "He _______ have fallen. Jones, you were here with him. Did you see?"

6) "Jones? Well, speak _______, man."

7) "His heart is acting _______."

8) "It's nothing," I say, crying _______.

9) My hands jerk. My mouth splits and is parched. My nostrils fasten wide. My eyes _______.

10) "What, sir?" "Never _______," I say.

11) An explosion. Shadows run. The screaming is cut _______.

12) Oh, the quiet and the loveliness of gathering, darkening death. But one cannot linger _______.

13) "I don't want to stay here, _______ get out!"

14) We all _______ silent.

15) One _______ one we bend until our balance is gone, and one _______ one drop into the mouth and down through cool darkness into the cold waters.

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