Приключения Шерлока Холмса / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (сборник)

2) To travel in order to avoid this nuisance

3) To sell the house

4) To call the police

6. Why was Mr. Cubitt angry with his wife?

1) She didn’t want to come to bed.

2) She didn’t want to talk to him.

3) She told him that she knew this man.

4) She held him when he could catch this man.

7. What did Sherlock Holmes do when Mr. Cubitt left?

1) He was tired and went to bed.

2) He decided to have dinner and then started working.

3) He started working, he was very busy copying dancing men and writing letters.

4) He solved the riddle very quickly and wrote a long telegram.

8. Why didn’t Sherlock Holmes share his ideas with Dr. Watson?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. Choose the right line:

Sherlock Holmes…………… to the table…………… out all the pieces of paper…………… dancing men in front of him and…………… examining them.

1) was rushing, lay, contained, began

2) rushed, lay, containing, began

3) rushed, laid, containing, began

4) was rushing, laid, containing, beginning

10. Complete the sentences with these words and expressions:

as far as, played such stupid tricks, on my nerves, a lesson, progress, had better

1) When this man comes again we can give him such…………… that he will leave us in peace.

2) I told her frankly that I wished to see who it was who…………… on us.

3) “…………… I understood there were some new incidents.”

4) Sometimes he was making…………… and whistled or sang something.

5) “You…………… stay here, Watson.”

6) “It’s getting……………, this business, Mr. Holmes,” he said.

11. Insert the right prepositions:

out, by, from(3), for, about, in, of(2), with

1) So I got…………… my revolver and I sat up in my room…………… where I could see the lawn and garden.

2) Something was moving…………… the shadow…………… the tool-house.

3) He was so completely occupied…………… this task that he had evidently forgotten…………… me.

4) We didn’t have to wait…………… a long time, because our Norfolk squire came straight…………… the station as fast as he could.

5) It means that we will leave our own house because…………… some jokers?

6) I’m surrounded…………… invisible unknown people, who want something…………… me.

12. Complete the table:

III

But the answer came only in two days, during which Holmes was very impatient. At every ring at the bell he jumped to his feet. In the evening we received a letter from Hilton Cubitt. He said that all was quiet there, but that morning a long inscription had appeared on the sun-dial. He sent us a copy of it, here it is:

Holmes stood with this piece of paper for some minutes, examining it, and then suddenly he turned to me. His eyes were full with anxiety.

“We have let this affair go far enough[116],” he said. “Is there a train to North Walsham tonight?”

I looked it up in the time-table. The last train had just gone.

“Then we shall have breakfast early and take the very first train in the morning,” said Holmes. “We must be there. Ah! And here is also our expected telegram. One moment, Mrs. Hudson. There must be an answer. Yes, it means I was right. This message makes it evident that we should not lose any minute. We must explain what’s the matter[117] to Hilton Cubitt. It is a very dangerous web in which our simple Norfolk squire is caught.”

So, as I come to this part of my story (which before had seemed to me only childish and strange) I feel once again the fear and horror with which I was filled then. I’d like to tell my readers that there will be a happy end, but I can’t. This book should be truthful. I must tell the facts and I must follow them to the strange chain of events which some day will be the talk of the whole England.[118]

We had hardly arrived at[119] North Walsham, and said where we were going to, when the station-master[120] came up to us. “I suppose that you are the detectives from London?” he said.

Holmes was very much worried.

“What makes you think so?”

“Because Inspector Martin from Norwich has just arrived. But maybe you are the doctors. She’s not dead… not yet. You may be in time[121] to save her… although it doesn’t matter – she will come to the gallows[122].”

Holmes’s eyes became very anxious.

“We are going to Ridling Thorpe Manor,” he said, “but we haven’t heard anything what had happened there.”

“It’s a terrible business,” said the station-master. “They are shot, both Mr. Hilton Cubitt and his wife. She shot him and then herself… so the servants say. He’s dead and she is doomed to death. Oh my God, one of the oldest families in the County of Norfolk, and one of the most honoured.”