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1. Answer the questions:

1. What did the Otis family find when they came down to breakfast?

2. What subjects did the Otis family discuss?

3. When did the family retire?

4. Why was Mr. Otis awakened?

5. What noise did Mr. Otis hear?

6. What did the ghost look like?

7. What did Mr. Otis give to the ghost?

8. How did the ghost manage to escape?

9. Why did the ghost feel insulted?

10. What did the ghost decide to do?

2. True or false?

1. When the Otis family came down to breakfast they didn’t find anything suspicious.

2. The family returned home at nine o’clock.

3. In the evening the family discussed such subjects as the sweetness of the New York accent as compared to the London drawl and the advantages of the baggage-check system in railway travelling.

4. Some time after Mr. Otis was awakened by a curious noise coming from upstairs.

5. When Mr. Otis opened the door he saw a young man of pleasant appearance in front of him.

6. Mr. Otis brought to the ghost a small bottle of perfume.

7. The ghost was very happy to get the present from Mr. Otis.

8. After the ghost vanished through wainscoting the house became quite quiet.

9. The ghost felt extremely insulted.

10. The ghost determined to have vengeance.

3. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions:

ничего особенного, подозревать, обычная беседа, превосходство, протяжное произношение, сверхъестественное, странный шум, звон (цепей), отчетливо, старинного покроя, обеспечить чем-либо, мраморный, негодование, кружево, пресловутый, бубновый валет, бархатный, невыносимо.

4. Write questions to the following answers.

1. When they came down to breakfast they found the terrible stain of blood once again.

2. Mr. Otis began to suspect that he had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts.

3. The family retired at eleven o’clock.

4. Mr. Otis woke up because he heard a curious noise.

5. Right in front of him he saw an old man of terrible aspect.

6. Mr.Otis asked the ghost to oil his chains.

7. Mr. Otis gave the ghost a small bottle of the Tammany Rising Sun lubricator.

8. The twins threw pillows at the ghost’s head.

9. The ghost vanished through a wainscoting.

10. The ghost felt insulted because no other ghost in history had ever been treated in this manner.

5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.

1. The storm raged _____________ all that night.

2. He ___________ the stain a second time, but the second morning it appeared again.

3. Mrs. Otis expressed her ________________ of joining the Psychical Society.

4. It sounded like the ________________ of metal, and seemed to be coming nearer every moment.

5. He put on his slippers, took a small ________________ out of his dressing-case, and opened the door.

6. For a moment the Canterville ghost stood quite motionless in natural _____ _____________.

7. On reaching a small secret chamber in the left wing, he leaned up against a _____________ to recover his breath.

8. A large pillow ____________ past his head.

9. Lady Stutfield was always ____________ _____ to wear a black velvet band round her throat to hide the mark of five fingers burnt upon her white skin.

10. He determined to have ________________, and remained till daylight in an attitude of deep thought.