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1. Answer the questions:

1. Why couldn’t Helen sleep that night?

2. What sounds did Helen Stoner hear that night?

3. What did Julia look like when she came into the corridor?

4. How did Julia die?

5. What did Helen think Julia’s last words meant?

6. What did the police investigation show? Was it careful?

7. What were Helen’s plans for the near future?

8. Why was she terrified?

9. What was Sherlock Holmes going to do?

10. Why was Sherlock Holmes interested in Dr. Roylott’s plans for that day?

Think and say

1. Did Dr. Roylott love his stepdaughters?

2. Why was the police investigation without any results?

2. Find the following phrases in the text and reproduce situations from the text with them. Give Russian equivalents.

1. to be in pain

2. to come to a conclusion

3. (to find) the cause of death

4. to die of smth

5. to move to another place / into another room

3. Paraphrase the underlined parts of the sentences so as to use the phrases above.

1. We saw that the man was suffering terribly, but all we could do was to call an ambulance.

2. Sherlock Holmes decided that it was a very deep business.

3. Her grandmother got pneumonia and died.

4. The police examined the dead man but couldn’t say why he died.

5. I was surprised to hear that Simon had gone to live in another flat. He always said it was a very good flat.

6. The police made an absolutely wrong decision as to why the man died because they didn’t have enough information.

7. Julia Stoner could not talk because she was suffering from pain.

4. Complete the sentences with the phrases above in the correct form.

1. In old days when a patient… the doctor gave him some alcohol to drink.

2. In the 19th century thousands of people all over Europe… tuberculosis.

3. Helen Stoner was afraid… the room where her sister had died.

4. If you want to know somebody’s…, you have to see the death certificate.

5. After a long discussion the doctors… that the patient didn’t need an operation.

6. If you…, take the pill.

7. Don’t worry, people don’t… such temperature.