Английские сказки для девочек / English Fairy Tales for Girls - страница 4

1. Переведите на русский язык:

husbandry, tillage, to lament, contented, industry, patience, to insult, vessel, weary, trifles, to purchase, rarity, journey, merchandise, howling, top, bottom, discovery, stable, hay, greedily, to dry oneself, liberty.

2. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What did Beauty do in the morning?

2. How did Beauty’s sisters spend their time?

3. What did they say about Beauty?

4. What did the merchant think about Beauty?

5. What letter did the merchant receive one day?

6. What did Beauty’s sisters beg the merchant to buy?

7. Why did Beauty ask her father to bring her a rose?

8. What happened to the merchant on his way back home?

9. What did the merchant find entering a large hall?

10. What did the merchant think about the master and his servants?

3. Какие утверждения верны?

1. Beauty rose at four in the morning and made haste to clean the house and cook dinner for the family.

2. After she had done her work, she played the guitar or met with her friends.

3. Beauty’s sisters usually helped her to cook dinner.

4. The merchant knew very well that Beauty was better than her sisters.

5. One day the merchant received a letter with an account that the vessel on board of which he had some goods safely arrived.

6. Beauty asked the merchant to bring her some jewelry.

7. Going through a large forest, the merchant found a beautiful castle and entered it.

8. Entering a large hall, the merchant saw the master of the house.

4. Вставьте правильные предлоги (for, from, with, to).

1. When they came ________ their country house, the merchant and his three sons applied themselves to husbandry and tillage.

2. Beauty rose at four in the morning and made haste to clean the house and cook dinner ________ the family.

3. The merchant received a letter ________ an account that the vessel on board of which he had some goods safely arrived.

4. It came ________ a palace illuminated from top to bottom.

He waited a considerable time until it struck eleven, and still nobody came. At last he was so hungry that he could stay no longer but took a chicken and ate it in two mouthfuls. After this, he drank a few glasses of wine and, growing more courageous, he went out of the hall and crossed through several grand apartments with magnificent furniture until he came into a chamber, which had an exceeding good bed in it, and as he was very much fatigued and it was past midnight, he decided it was best to shut the door and go to bed.