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Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.

Эккерсли К.Э. Базовый курс английского языка — М.: Лист Нью, 2002. — 704 c.
ISBN 5-7871-0174-X
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That station was run well: Tom was very strict about "rules". He knew what a passenger was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do, where he was allowed to smoke and where he was not allowed to smoke. And if any passenger dared to do anything that was against the rules, there was trouble at Lowton Cross.
"Against the Rules!"
He was there for 50 years and then he had to retire. There is no doubt that Tom had done his job well; in all the 50 years he had been there, he had never missed a single1 day; every day he had been on duty. Well, the Railway Company thought they ought to do something to recognize this, and so a little "farewell ceremony" was arranged, and a man from the head office, Sir Joseph Binks, was asked to go to Lowton Cross for the ceremony.
Tom was thanked and was given a small cheque as a present. He was very pleased, of course, but he said to Sir Joseph, "I don't need the
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money" (Tom had always been careful and had saved quite a nice amount of money), "but can I have, instead, something that will remind me of the happy days I have spent here in Lowton Cross?" Sir Joseph was rather surprised, but he said he thought it could be arranged; what kind of "reminder" had Tom in mind? So Tom said, "Well, sir, could the Company let me have a part of an old railway carriage, just one compartment. It doesn't matter how old or broken it is; I can repair it and clean it-I shall have plenty of time now that 1 have retired. I want to put it in my back garden, and every day I can go and sit in it, and that will remind me of Lowton Cross."
Sir Joseph thought, "Poor old fellow, his mind is failing, but we have some old railway carriages that are only fit for breaking up," so he said, "Well, Mr. Hobdell, if that is what you want, you shall have it." And about a week later a carriage, or rather a compartment, was sent and was taken into Tom's back garden. Tom worked at it, just as he had worked at Lowton Cross. It was cleaned and painted and polished, and in a week or so it looked very nice.
One day, about a year after Tom had retired, I was staying with Uncle Albert (that's Tom's brother, of course) and he said, "Come on, Hob, let's go and visit old Tom. I've not seen him for a long time." So we went to Tom's house and walked up to his front door. It was a bad day for a visit. It began to rain as we got off the train, and by the time we got to Tom's house it was raining hard. We walked up the path to the front door and Uncle Albert knocked, but there was no answer. However, the door wasn't locked so Uncle Albert opened it and we went in. Tom was nowhere to be seen, and Albert said, "He'll be in that old railway carriage of his; we'll go out at the back." Sure enough, he was there, but he wasn't sitting in the carriage; he was outside, on the step of the carriage, smoking his pipe. His head was covered with a sack and the rain was running down his back.
"Hello, Tom," said Uncle Albert, "why on earth are you sitting there; why don't you go mside the carriage out of the rain?"
"Can't you see," said Tom, "the carriage they sent me was a non-smoker!"
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УПРАЖНЕНИЯ
1. Придумайте предложения со следующими словами: hungry, expensive, chief, polish, clerk, strict, dare, trouble, doubt,
job, duty, company, ceremony, cheque, need, arrange, repair, knock, lock, sack
2. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. What's the difference between a "refreshment room" and a "restaurant"? 2. Why was Hob glad to go to the restaurant? 3. What did Hob have for breakfast? 4. Why was Hob reminded just now of Uncle Tom? 5. How long did he work there? 6. Did Tom like his work?
7. What work did he do? 8. How can you show that Tom was "strict about rules"? 9. What happened if someone broke the rules? 10. Why did the Railway Company arrange a "farewell ceremony"? 11. Who was asked to go to the ceremony? 12. What did Tom want? Why?
13. What did Sir Joseph Binks think about Tom? 14. What did Tom do to the compartment when it was put in his back garden? 15. Why did Uncle Albert and Hob go to visit Tom? 16. What kind of a day was i^ when they went to visit Tom? 17. Why could Albert open the front door? 18. Where was Uncle Tom sitting? 19. What had he on his head? 20. Why wasn't he sitting inside the compartment?
Сочинение
Перескажите или напишите рассказ Хоба о его дяде Томе.
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Active and Passive Voice
SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES
Любое предложение состоит из двух частей. Например, в предложении
Uncle Тот \ worked on the railway
первая часть Uncle Тот - это имя лица (или название предмета), о котором идет речь. Это субъект предложения (Subject).
Во второй части приводятся сведения о субьекте; в ней говорится о том, что делает или делал дядя Том. Эта часть называется предикатом (Predicate).
Вот еще несколько примеров:
Subject Predicate
I We Tom Tom A carriage The tickets went to visit Uncle Tom. walked up to the front door, was smoking his pipe, was thanked by Sir Joseph, was taken into Tom's garden, were collected by Tom.
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