Grammar, Vocabulary and All That. Плужникова Ю.А. - 126 стр.

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10. On the following day Van Baerle was called before the judges.

11. “Have you anything to say?” asked the officer.

12. “Today,” answered the officer, surprised at Van Baerle`s calmness. Rosa was

weeping.

7. The following text is mixed up. Arrange all parts of it in the correct order.

THERE WAS A BORED AND TYRANNICAL SULTAN …

1. When everyone had left the court, they gathered round Nasruddin.

2. Nasruddin spoke up.

3. “What is it?” asked the sultan.

4. “I can`t teach monkey to read and write,” said Nasruddin.

5. “Easy,” said Nasruddin. “The Sultan is eighty years old, and I`m eighty-five.”

6. “Oh mighty Sultan, I can do something to entertain you.”

7. “There is only one thing,” said Nasruddin. “It will take ten years.”

8. Ther was a bored and tyrannical Sultan. One day he shouted at his courtiers.

9. “All right,” said the Sultan, “I`ll give you the ten years.”

10. “Can you really teach a monkey to read and write?” asked one of them.

11. “So why did you promise to do it?” asked another.

12. “Do it then, said the Sultan. “But, if you fail, I`ll execute you.”

13. “Of course, I can`t,” replied Nasruddin.

14. “Unless someone does something to entertain me, I`ll cut all your heads off!”

15. “We`ll both have other things on our minds in ten years’ time!”