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2. Find the English equivalents of the words in the story. Make up your own very short stories using at least three of these phrases.

Холостяк; вздох облегчения; подорвать здоровье; перелётные птицы; выступать; расхваливать себя; понять что-то; напрасно; звать на помощь; умышленно; преданная привязанность; мастер запутывать следы; раздражать; из-за нее; ничего сверхъестественного; хорошо сохранившийся; неприметно одетый; благовоспитанные англичанки; из любопытства; искусственное дыхание; рассказать печальную новость; зарабатывать на жизнь; охваченный паникой; приходить в себя; иметь привычку.

3. Find these expressions in the text of the story and then rephrase them in your own words:

ministered to the ailments (11p.);

racked his brains (11p.);    

wallow in crime (11p.;      

hotbed of crime and vice (12p.);

inclined to scragginess (14p.);

a tremendous commotion (16p.);

next of kin (24p.);

you could have knocked me down with a feather (28p.);

was not long for this world (29p.).

4. Insert the necessary prepositions.

1. I had had a breakdown … health and was forced to give … my practice … England.

2. Ships from all over the world put … … las Palmas.

3. The orchestra struck … a tango.

4. A Holland Lloyd boat had put … port that evening, and the passengers were just beginning to arrive.

5. Just as you’ve only got to look … those two women over there, and know that nothing … … the way could happen to either of them.

6. I little thought then how soon I was to encounter the owners of those names again – and … what tragic circumstances.

7. As we approached the beach, we were at once aware … a tremendous commotion.

8. Two of the mad English ladies had gone … to bathe and one had swam … too far and got … difficulties.

9. Live was too clearly extinct, and … the end I had reluctantly to give … .

10. I asked her then … particulars … the dead woman.

11. She had been left an orphan … an early age and had been brought … by an uncle.

12. I didn’t pay attention … it at the time, but it came back … me afterwards.

13. “No body”, said Miss Marple firmly. “That’s the thing that would stare you … the face, if there weren’t such a lot of red herrings to draw you … the trail.”

5. Find the synonyms of these words in the story.

to help;                                               relative;

the sick, ill people;                             to come across;

strange;                                               worry;

details;                                                deliberately;

personal things;                                  uselessly, without a success.

to change;        

Reading Comprehension:

1. Correct the following statements:

1. The incident that Dr. Lloyd was describing happened in the island of Tenerife.

2. Nothing out of the way happened to those two English women.

3. Right on the beach Dr. Lloyd understood that one of the English women killed the other one.

4. “Mary Barton” grew fatter after the accident.

5. “Mary Barton” committed a suicide, she drowned in the sea.

6. Dr. Lloyd had never met “Miss Barton” again.

7. Dr. Lloyd had a lot of evidence (as the law understands it) and he told every thing to the police.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. How does the story begin? Why were all these people gathered together?

2. Who was going to tell a creepy story?

3. Who were the main heroes of the doctor’s story? Why did Dr. Lloyd and his friend say that those two English women had been made for a safe and uneventful life?

4. What accident happened on the beach?

5. How did Mary describe the accident?

6. Did the story seem to be a crime from the very beginning? What arouse Dr. Lloyd’s suspicion?

7. Was Dr. Lloyd a success to find any personal information about Amy Durrant?

8. What were the reasons for Dr. Lloyd to start suspecting Mary in committing the crime?

9. What conversation did Dr. Lloyd and Mary have before she left Grand Canary?