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The farm, an old-fashioned stone house, was built. In 1673 and for three hundred years the people had been born in it and had farmed the surrounding land. George Meadows was a man of fifty and his wife, Mrs. George, were a year or two younger. They were both fine people in the prime of life. Their three daughters were lovely and their two sons were handsome and strong. They had no notions about being gentlemen and ladies; they knew their place, were happy and deserved their happiness, as they were merry, satisfactionn and kindly. The master of the house was not George, but. His mother, who was twice the man her son was, as they said in the village. She was a woman of seventy, tall, upright, with gray hair and a wrinkled face. Her eyes were bright and shrewd and she had a sense of humor. Her word was law in the house and on the farm. In short, she was a character. One day Mrs. George met me in the street. And told me that they had received a letter from their Uncle George, whom those all thought dead. The letter informed them of his coming. «Just fancy, » she said, «he hasnt been here for fifty years. And old Mrs. Meadows sits there and smiles to herself! All she says is that he was very good-looking, but not so steady as his brother Tom!» Mrs. George invited me to look in and see the old man. I accepted the invitation with joy, as I knew the story of Uncle George Meadows and it amused me because it was like an old ballad. It was touching to come across such a story in real life. More than fifty years ago, when Mrs. Meadows was Emily Green, a young charming girl, George and his younger brother Tom both courted her. When Emily married Tom, George had gone to sea. For twenty years he sent them presents now and then; then there was no more news of him. After her husbands death Emily wrote George about it, but never received an answer. And the previous day, to their greatest surprise they received his letter, in which he wrote that he was crippled with rheumatism and feeling he had not much longer to live, want d to return to the house in which he was born. When I came the whole family was assembled in the kitchen. I was amused to see that Mrs. Meadows was wearing her best silk dress. On the other side of the fireplace sat an old man with a wrinkled yellow face. He was very thin and his skin hung on his bones like an old suit too large for him. Captain George, a he had called himself, told us that he had been so ill he thought he would never be able to get back, but the look of his old home had done him a lot of good. He said good-humouredly: «I feel now better and stronger than I have for many years, dear Emily! » No one had called Mrs. Meadows by her Christian name for a generation and it gave me a shock, as though the old man were taking a liberty with her. It was strange to look at these two old smiling people and to think that nearly half a century ago he had loved her and she had married another. Найти изобразительно-выразительные средства на английском
Помогите с английским (тестом) Прочитайте отрывок из романа и выполните задания 1 – 7, выбирая букву A, B, C или D. Установите соответствие номера задания выбранному вами варианту ответа. Harry had come to Canada from Poland at the age of eight. The family was sent to a Jewish farming village in Manitoba. His father had been a merchant in the old country, but he was allowed into Canada on condition that he took up agriculture. In the village, they lived in a small wooden house. When he was sixteen Harry moved to Winnipeg to work for his cousin Albert in the fur business. He was paid fifteen dollars a week for sixty or seventy hours of work. This arrangement continued for two years, and then Harry asked for a raise or a reduction in working time. His cousin said no; that was when Harry began his own family fur business. After his parents sold their farm and moved into the city, he operated out of their North Winnipeg basement. I was introduced to Harry through a friend of mine, a local city planner. Harry now owned properties in the exchange district, so named because it was where the grain and fur exchanges started. My friend had been encouraging Harry to renovate these buildings. The city was trying to save its architectural past. Much remained that would have been torn down in other Canadian cities. The three of us walked to a restaurant called Bottles. Looking at the menu, Harry said he didn’t want anything rich. He had had problems with his stomach since he was eighteen. “Poor eating,” he explained. There had not been enough money for decent food. “I don’t know what’s happened to Winnipeg,” Harry said. “Thirty years ago Portage Avenue was full of life. Now in the evening the whole downtown is dead.” Harry had bought his first raw pelts in 1952. There had been a thousand people employed in the fur trade when he began. Now he thought there might be a hundred. The fur manufactures in Montreal and Toronto, many of them Greek immigrants, had taken over the business. “We used to work like dogs. One of my parents’ neighbours reported us – we weren’t supposed to work out of a house – so we had to rent space downtown. People said we’d be broke very soon. But slowly we expanded.” Harry was among the inter-war immigrants who had given Winnipeg’s north end its special character. Then North Winnipeg had been a seat of political ferment and of Jewish immigrant culture. Its history had acquired a patina because so many talented people had escaped its poverty and gone into business or the arts professions. But Harry was one of the last. Many of the old Jewish families had moved across the river into more expensive neighbourhoods. There was a new underclass made up of Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Canadian Indians. 1. Harry’s father was permitted to come to Canada if he A) didn’t work in agriculture. B) became a farmer. C) remained a merchant. D) returned to Poland after some years. 2. Harry stopped working for his cousin Albert because A) he returned to his father’s farm. B) he went to Poland to start his own business. C) his cousin refused to pay him more money. D) his cousin wanted to increase working hours. 3. A local city planner wanted Harry to A) tear down the old buildings. B) own the buildings. C) exchange the buildings for fur. D) restore the buildings. 4. Harry had some problems with his stomach because in his childhood he A) had eaten too much. B) had not been able to eat proper food. C) used to starve. D) had liked rich food. 5. One of Harry’s parents’ neighbours told the police about them because they A) used to work like dogs. B) rented a place downtown. C) ran their business at home. D) had expanded their business. 6. “People said we’d be broke very soon” means that people expected them to A) go bankrupt soon. B) destroy their house. C) have a breakthrough in business. D) break their back due to hard work. 7. “Last” in “Harry was one of the last” refers to A) the political figures who gave Manitoba its special character. B) those who had moved into more expensive neighbourhood. C) successful immigrants who still lived in North Winnipeg. D) those who had chosen the profession of the arts.
