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B: resurrection, deeds, sage, intervention, coincidence, wonder,
transcendent, kinfolk, foreshadow, venerate, intuit.
5. Answer the following questions. Everything studied above
will help you.
1. Is miracle always explicable?
2. What do people usually ask when they pray for miracle?
3. What is the same and the different between modern and an-
cient miracle stories?
4. The author says miracles are found in all the world religions. Is
there any difference? Can you give examples?
5. What modern miracle story mentioned in this text impressed
you most?
6. What is the basic form of Christian miracles?
7. What is mentioned about new religious movements» attitude to
miracle within Christianity?
8. What religious groups are least likely to believe in miracles?
Why?
9. Is there any mentioning of holy books? Are any of them con-
sidered to be a miracle?
10. The place taken by saints in religion is great. Are they rele-
vant to miracle?
11. What country is a land of living saints?
12. What is your personal attitude to miracle? What would you
ask if praying for miracle?
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TEXT IX
Read the text and do all the tasks given below.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
by Robert K. Massie
About the author.
Born in Lexington, Kentuky, Robert K. Massie studied history at
Yale University & Oxford University before embarking on a highly suc-
cessful career as writer & editor. Among the publications with which
the author has been associated are Newsweek, USA-1, The Saturday
Evening Post, The Reporter, Saturday Review, The New York Times
Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. The affliction of
the author’s young son by hemophilia inspired Mr. Massie’s interest in
the tragic drama of Nicholas & Alexandra, whose son also was stricken
with the disease.This factor, as many reviewers have commented, gives
this brilliant work an added dimension of human understanding rare in
the writing of history.
«I have a firm, an absolute conviction that the fate of Russia –
that my own fate and that of my family – is in the hands of God who
has placed me where I am. Whatever may happen to me, I shall bow
to His will with the consciousness of never having had any thought
other than that of serving the country which He has entrusted to me.»
Nicholas II
Chapter 1
The writing of this book is the result, like most things in the life,
of a circumstance of Fate. Since the day, now over ten years ago, that
my wife and I discovered that our son had hemophilia, I have tried to
learn how other families dealt with the problem raised by this unique
disease. In time, this led to curiosity about the response of the parents of
the boy who was the most famous hemophiliac of all, the Tsarevich
Alexis, the only son and heir of Nicholas II, last Tsar of all the Rus-
sians.
B: resurrection, deeds, sage, intervention, coincidence, wonder, TEXT IX
transcendent, kinfolk, foreshadow, venerate, intuit.
Read the text and do all the tasks given below.
5. Answer the following questions. Everything studied above
will help you. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
1. Is miracle always explicable? by Robert K. Massie
2. What do people usually ask when they pray for miracle?
3. What is the same and the different between modern and an- About the author.
cient miracle stories? Born in Lexington, Kentuky, Robert K. Massie studied history at
4. The author says miracles are found in all the world religions. Is Yale University & Oxford University before embarking on a highly suc-
there any difference? Can you give examples? cessful career as writer & editor. Among the publications with which
5. What modern miracle story mentioned in this text impressed the author has been associated are Newsweek, USA-1, The Saturday
you most? Evening Post, The Reporter, Saturday Review, The New York Times
6. What is the basic form of Christian miracles? Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. The affliction of
7. What is mentioned about new religious movements» attitude to the author’s young son by hemophilia inspired Mr. Massie’s interest in
miracle within Christianity? the tragic drama of Nicholas & Alexandra, whose son also was stricken
8. What religious groups are least likely to believe in miracles? with the disease.This factor, as many reviewers have commented, gives
Why? this brilliant work an added dimension of human understanding rare in
9. Is there any mentioning of holy books? Are any of them con- the writing of history.
sidered to be a miracle?
10. The place taken by saints in religion is great. Are they rele- «I have a firm, an absolute conviction that the fate of Russia –
vant to miracle? that my own fate and that of my family – is in the hands of God who
11. What country is a land of living saints? has placed me where I am. Whatever may happen to me, I shall bow
12. What is your personal attitude to miracle? What would you to His will with the consciousness of never having had any thought
ask if praying for miracle? other than that of serving the country which He has entrusted to me.»
Nicholas II
Chapter 1
The writing of this book is the result, like most things in the life,
of a circumstance of Fate. Since the day, now over ten years ago, that
my wife and I discovered that our son had hemophilia, I have tried to
learn how other families dealt with the problem raised by this unique
disease. In time, this led to curiosity about the response of the parents of
the boy who was the most famous hemophiliac of all, the Tsarevich
Alexis, the only son and heir of Nicholas II, last Tsar of all the Rus-
sians.
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