Задание 12 из ЕГЭ по английскому языку. Страница 3
THE DAY I STOLE A BICYCLE
It was my first brand new bike. Nothing fancy (the cheapest Ridgeback on the market) but I was really proud of it and I loved it.
Two months later, on …
(By A. Conan Doyle)
Of all the sciences which interested people, none had such an attraction for the learned professor von Baumgarten as psychology and the relations between mind a…
This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned, despite my having completed my packing and loaded the Ford with all necessary items well before eight o’…
(By S. Maugham)
Margaret Dauncey lived in an art studio near the Boulevard Montparnasse with Susie Boyd. Susie was eager to see Arthur. She had heard a great deal about the young m…
(By Oliver Burkeman)
Be positive, look on the bright side, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser. I…(By S. Maugham)
Susie felt it impossible to stay in the deserted studio any longer, and accepted a friend’s invitation to spend the winter in Italy. Margaret had not written to her…
The Pot of Gold
(an extract from The Pot of Gold by H. Melville)
Ralph worked nights on a plan that promised him a well-paying job in Texas, but through no fault of his own this pr…
(from ’Taking the veil’ by Katherine Mansfield)
It seemed impossible that anyone should be unhappy on such a beautiful morning. Nobody was, decided Edna, except herself. The window…
The dinner party
by Nickolas Monsarrat
A full thirty years ago, I myself was fifteen. That is not really important, though it was important to me at the time, on the threshold of s…
(By E.L. Doctorow)
I was born on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. I was the next to youngest of six children, two boys, four girls. The two boys, Harry and Willy, were the ol…
(By R.L. Stevenson)
Out I went into the night. The wind was still moaning in the distance, though never a breath of it came near the house of Shaws. It had fallen blacker than ever…
H. G. Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley. He claimed to have a very ordinary brain, but in fact he predicted air attacks and atomic bombs long before they existed. He took no pleasu…
At the office that day, Martha was left to ‘keep her eyes open’ until after the lunch hour. Then Max Cohen brought her a document to copy. She was so tense, she had to start afresh…
Christopher Marlowe was one of the most popular dramatists of the Elizabethan age. He was an energetic young man with a brilliant mind and a quick temper. He was also a man of myst…
Dr Audlin looked at the clock on his desk. It was twenty minutes to six. He was surprised that his patient was late, for Lord Mountdrago was always proud of his punctuality.
Dr Aud…
By that time the war started, World War One. Mr. Unterberg had said to me watching the way I dealt with people who came into the office, that I had greater abilities than secretari…
A tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produc…
Robots
A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, usually an electromechanical machine that is guided by a computer programme or electronic circuitry. Robots can be auton…
Butterflies
Butterflies are part of the class of Insects in the order Lepidoptera. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering fl ight.…
DAY had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earthbank, where a dim and little traveled trail l…
