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Выпуск No91


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

Выпуск № 38 (127) от 2010-10-07  
www.english-moscow.ru
Количество человек, получивших этот выпуск: 15631

INTRODUCTION

Дорогие читатели, мы с вами разобрали вторую половину первой главы. На этом мы попрощаемся с Гудини и в следующем выпуске начнём разбирать уже другую историю. Жду ваших идей и предложений, пишите.
А сегодня, чтобы закрепить результат, мы попробуем выполнить несколько упражнений по пройденному материалу.

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!

“I, HOUDINI”
by L. R. Banks

Anyway, as I said, I was bought (it sounds so quaint!) from wherever-it-was and brought here at an early age. I wasn’t half the size I am now, and of course, I was entirely ignorant. I didn’t even know that I was a hamster, let alone a golden one – I learned that from listening to the children, whose speech I soon picked up just by keeping my ears open.

At first I was too agitated to learn anything, however. I well remember my first night here. They put me into a deep cardboard box with some water and grain in separate bowls. I don’t suppose they meant to keep me there.

They hadn’t bought a cage yet, which was silly of them, because inside ten minutes I had discovered that my claws could get quite an easy grip on the roughish sides of the box, provided I used the corner to give myself purchase as I climbed. It took three or four attempts, but I am nothing if not persevering and I was soon hanging over the top. It looked rather a long way to the floor (amazing, when I think of the heights I can jump now!) but even then I was no coward, and half jumped, half slithered down the outside, head first.

I was in a large, open area, which I now know like the back of my paw, but which was a whole unknown world to me then. Like the idiot I am not, as a rule, I hadn’t stored any of the grain in my cheeks before leaving the box, and now that I was free, I could have done with a morsel of something, but it was too late to think of that. Escape was then, as now, my main objective, and I was about to sample my first taste of real freedom.

The area was a room which the Father uses as a kind of workshop. Apart from the kitchen, where my nest is, I think it’s now my favorite room in the house, because it is so beautifully untidy. It is full of things to explore and wonderful places to hide, and I spent the rest of that night doing both to my heart’s content. You must remember, I’d never been free before, and I’m certain that this first blissful taste of it was what gave me my life-long passion for escape, concealment, and exploration.

I climbed into toolboxes and under heaps of sacking, clambered up a big soft mountain which turned out to be a battered armchair, and fell off into a wastepaper basket (fortunately wicker – those smooth-sided metal ones are deathtraps to me). I ran behind huge bits of furniture and took a quick nap under a lovely warm radiator (after foolishly trying to climb up it and burning my paws. I was always very wary of sources of heat after that).

I made several attempts to climb the telephone wire, and got so exasperated because I couldn’t that I eventually chewed it right through. I chewed quite a lot of other things as well. I didn’t know any better in those days, or for quite a while afterward, to tell the truth. I’m afraid those teeth of mine, with their constant need for being worn down lest they grow through my skin, led me to be very destructive when I was young. I’ve often made excuses for the Father’s intolerant attitude to me because of this. But of course I didn’t know anything about destructiveness then. When I saw something chewable, I just chewed, and I chewed a fair amount that first night, I can tell you. Apart from anything else, I was trying to find something to eat.

Eventually the obvious solution occurred to me. I went back to the box. It wasn’t hard to find, even in that vast area, because of the delicious smells of food and water pouring over the top of it. I didn’t think I could climb back into it because the corners were the wrong sort from outside, but I walked round it and found they’d carelessly left it standing against a pile of telephone directories. Of course I was up these like a flight of steps, plopped back into the box, had a long drink, and stuffed my cheeks till they would hold no more. It was a lot harder to climb out with all that load weighing me down, but determination won the day and soon I was safe and warm under the radiator having a good feast before settling down for my day’s well-earned sleep.

Well, I didn’t sleep long, needless to say. I had hardly dozed off before an appalling hullabaloo broke out in the vicinity of my abandoned box.

“He’s gone! Goldy’s gone!” shrieked Guy, who was then only five. He’d come to say good morning to me before going to school and, finding me gone, fell into an uproar. Floods of tears, wails, and cries – dear me, it was all very unpleasant and deplorable. I knew nothing about the modern child in those days and was both alarmed and shocked. (I seem to remember now that my Mother used to nip us if we so much as squeaked. Perhaps that’s why I hardly ever utter a sound.)

His two brothers, Mark and Adam (as I later learned were their names), came running in, followed by the Mother. A search was put in hand, and I would have been speedily found if I had not scurried off, keeping to the wall, which was luckily blocked in by furniture for most of its length, to a tailor-made hiding place I had noted the night before. I had not chosen it for my day nest for two reasons. One, I hadn’t known I was in any danger, so security had not seemed more important than warmth and comfort. Two, it was dirty. I never liked the smell of dust, and I am fastidious, so I have never ventured into dirty places except in an emergency. But this was one- I could see the Mother’s feet bearing down on me across the wooden floor – so I just slipped through a hole in the baseboard and found myself in a draughty dark cave.

Instinct told me I was now perfectly safe. There were so many places I could have been concealed that, to the boys’ rage and dismay, the Mother soon told them that the hunt was hopeless. They were bundled off to school, bitterly complaining, and Guy still, alas, in tears. Later in my life I gained enough sensibility to feel uneasy if I had made any of the children sad, but at that time I had no room in my heart for anything but selfish satisfaction that I had evaded them.

I made a rough nest for myself in the inch-deep fluff, put my nose between my back legs, and fell instantly asleep.

EXERCISE 2 – TRUE OR FALSE

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

1. Гудини купили в магазине золота.

2. Гудини очень глуп, но мил.

3. Люди, купившие его, тоже не блистали умом и сообразительностью.

4. Гудини очень любил беспорядок.

5. Чтобы выбраться из коробки, понадобилось прогрызть в ней дырку.

6. Гудини несколько раз залез вверх по телефонному проводу, прежде чем перегрызть его.

7. Гудини нашёл еду и воду в коробке, которая стояла рядом со стопкой телефонных справочников.

8. Гай, по мнению Гудини, очень капризный и невоспитанный ребёнок.

9. Гудини, убежав, спрятался за мебелью.

10. Гудини не жалел Гая, когда тот плакал.

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.

appalling
nest
teeth
warm
reasons
silly
eat
half
chewed
safe
favorite
gone
box
freedom
solution

1) I wasn’t _______ the size I am now, and of course, I was entirely ignorant.

2) They put me into a deep cardboard _______ with some water and grain in separate bowls.

3) They hadn’t bought a cage yet, which was _______ of them...

4) Escape was then, as now, my main objective, and I was about to sample my first taste of real _______.

5) ...I think it’s now my _______ room in the house, because it is so beautifully untidy.

6) I ran behind huge bits of furniture and took a quick nap under a lovely _______ radiator.

7) I made several attempts to climb the telephone wire, and got so exasperated because I couldn’t that I eventually _______ it right through.

8) I’m afraid those _______ of mine ... led me to be very destructive when I was young.

9) Apart from anything else, I was trying to find something to _______.

10) Eventually the obvious _______ occurred to me.

11) I had hardly dozed off before an _______ hullabaloo broke out in the vicinity of my abandoned box.

12) “He’s _______! Goldy’s _______!” shrieked Guy, who was then only five.

13) I had not chosen it for my day nest for two _______.

14) Instinct told me I was now perfectly _______.

15) I made a rough ________ for myself in the inch-deep fluff, put my nose between my back legs, and fell instantly asleep.

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) I wasn’t half the size I am now, and _______, I was entirely ignorant.

2) Like the idiot I am not, _______ a rule, I hadn’t stored any of the grain in my cheeks before leaving the box.

3) Escape was then, as now, my main objective, and I was _______ sample my first taste of real freedom.

4) _______ the kitchen, where my nest is, I think it’s now my favorite room in the house...

5) It is full of things to explore and wonderful places to hide, and I spent the rest of that night doing both _______.

6) I ran behind huge bits of furniture and _______ a quick nap under a lovely warm radiator.

7) I didn’t know any better in those days, or for quite a while afterward, to _______.

8) ... but I walked round it and found they’d carelessly left it standing _______ a pile of telephone directories.

9) Of course I was up these like a flight of steps, plopped back into the box, _______ a long drink, and stuffed my cheeks till they would hold no more.

10) Perhaps that’s why I _______ utter a sound.

11) A search was put in hand, and I would have been speedily found if I had not scurried off, _______ the wall.

12) They were bundled off to school, bitterly complaining, and Guy still, alas, _______.

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