Лексический тест по произведению Э.Хэмингуэя Кошка под дождем (Cat in the rain)
Cat in the Rain
By E. Hemingway
Choose the right answer.
There were only two (1)__________ stopping at the hotel. Their room was on the (2)__________ floor facing the (3)_________. It also faced the public (4)________and the (5)___________. (6)__________ came from a long way off to look up at the war monument. It was made of (7) __________ and (8)_________ in the rain. The rain (9)__________ from the palm trees. Water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument. Across the square in the doorway of the cafe a (10)________ stood looking out at the empty square.
Italians Americans Russian Couples
First Second Third Fifth
Sea Ocean River Swimming pool
Library Toile Garden Monument
war monument peace monument monument wet monument
Americans Russian Italians Chinese
Gold Bronze Metal Iron
Shined Flashed Shimmered Glistened
Fell Dripped Went down Was falling down
Padrone The hotel-keeper Waiter American wife
Fill in the gaps.
"I'm going down and get that ___________," the American wife said.
"I'll do it," her husband offered from the bed.
"No, I'll get it. The poor ____________ out trying to keep dry under a _______________."
The ___________went on reading, lying propped up with the two ___________at the foot of the bed.
"Don't get ___________," he said.
He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any ___________. She liked his ___________. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a ___________. She liked his old, heavy ___________and big ___________.
"There was a ___________," said the American girl.
"A ___________?""Si, ilgatto."*
"A ___________?" the maid laughed. "A ___________in the ___________?"
"Yes," she said, "under the ___________." Then, "Oh, 1 wanted it so much. I wanted a ___________."
When she talked English the maid's face lightened.
"Come, Signora," she said. "We must get back inside. You will be ___________."
''I suppose so," said the ___________girl.
Translate from Russian into English.
"I want to pull my hair back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel," she said. "I want to have a kitty to sit on my lap and purr when 1 stroke her."
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Don't you think it would be a good idea if I let my hair grow out?" she asked, looking at her profile again.
George looked up and saw the back of her neck, clipped close like a boy's.
"I like it the way it is."
"I get so tired of it," she said. "I get so tired of looking like a boy."
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Something felt very small and tight inside the girl. The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance.
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4.* Write down the key words of the story. ________________________________
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5.* What do you usually associate rain with? _____________________________
6. Write down 15 phrasal verbs from memory
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