Sir Isaak Newton

Sir Isaak Newton was a great English thinker. He was born on Christmas Day in 1642. His life proves how unim­portant facts may have important results.

As many great men, he was not one of the best pupils at school. But one day he fought and beat another boy, and this success caused him to start to work so hard that later he was at the top of his class.

One day, when lying under an apple-tree, an apple fell on him. This simple fact set his mind thinking, and after some time he found the law of nature that all things are drawn to the earth. He also studied the sunlight and disco­vered that it is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.

He died on March 20, 1727.

Is There Anybody There?

I was staying with some friends one weekend. I didn't feel very well on Sunday morning. My friends went out, but I decided to go back to bed. After a few minutes I heard a strange noise. I got up and looked round the flat, but everything was all right. So 1 went back to bed and soon I fell asleep. I had a very funny dream. 1 dreamt there was somebody in the flat. He was picking things up and then putting them down somewhere else. Every time he moved something, there was a funny noise.

After a long time 1 woke up. but I could still hear the funny noises from the dream. 1 was sure there really was somebody in the flat. 1 called out, "Is there anybody there?", but there was no reply. I was a little frightened. I looked in the living room, but there wasn't anybody there. 1 looked in the kitchen, but there wasn't anyone there either.

The noise came again; I was quite sure 1 wasn't alone. I called out again, but nobody answered. 1 wanted to see if anything was in a different place, but every­thing was as it was before. The noise came again; this time I thought it came from the bathroom. I checked the taps' on the bath and the basin, but they were firmly turned off².

Perhaps there was something in the garden? I went out and looked everywhere, but I couldn't see anyone anywhere. 1 went back in and listened. Again there was complete silence; I didn't hear anything for a few minutes. 1 began to think it was all my imagination. The noise came again. I went into the bedroom and had a good look everywhere. I found nothing that was making a noise, but 1 waited until the noise came again. I realized that it was coming from the clock I looked at it carefully; it was a very modern battery clock. I looked at it for a few minutes. When it clicked again, I decided it was broken, so I left it on the dressing-table.

Later in the morning my friends came back and I told them the whole story. Everybody laughed at me. Everyone knows that battery clocks make noises every now and then³, except me!

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I I checked the taps — Я проверил краны

2 were firmly turned off — были плотно закрыты

3 every now and then — время от времени

Ключи

К упр. 1 (IV).

1. He showed them to them.

2. It is for them.

3. She saw her yesterday.

4. He went to it with her.

5. He bought it yesterday.

6. He spoke to him about it.

7. They are looking at it,

8. She is sitting with her near it.

К упр. 2 (IV).

1. her; yours.

2. his; hers.

3. your; mine.

4. our; theirs.

5. my; yours.

6. ours.

7. your.

8. their

К упр. 3 (IV).

I.

1. yourself

2. himself

3. herself

4. himself

5. herself

6. myself

7. yourselves

8. themselves

II.

1. themselves

2. himself

3. ourselves

4. themselves

5. herself

6. myself

7. yourselves

8. yourself

9. ourselves

10. yourself

11. himself

К упр. 4 (IV).

1. who

2. which

3. what

4. which

5. which

6. which

7. which

8. what

9. which

10. who

11. whose

12. what

13. who

14. whose

К упр. 5 (IV).

1. This is my pencil, and that is yours.

2. This is our room, and that is yours.

3. These are my books and those are yours.

4. These are the pictures of Kiev and those are of Odessa.

5. What‘s this? - This is (it is) the picture of Minsk.

6. What’s this? – It’s a map of Africa.

К упр. 6 (IV).

I. 1. some 2. any 3. some, some 4. any 5. some 6. some, any 7. any

II. 1. some, any 2. some 3. some 4. any 5. any 6. any 7. any 8. some

III. 1. anything 2. anybody 3. anything (anybody) 4. something 5. anybody 6. anybody (anyone) 7. anything 8. somebody 9. anybody 10. anything

К упр. 7 (IV).

1. many

2. much

3. many

4. much

5. many

6. much

7. many

8. many

9. much

10. much

11. much

К упр. 8 (IV).

1. a few

2. a few

3. a few

4. little

5. a little

6. a little

7. little

8. a little

9. little

10. few