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| Forsуth, Frеdеrick: Thеre Are No Snаkes In Irelаnd |
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Уровень сложности: простой (elementary)
Жанр: драма, триллер
There is a strаnge thing about Irеland – no snakes live there. There are snаkes in England and Scotland and Wales, the countries of Great Britain. But there are no snakes on the island of Ireland. There is a very old story about this. Long ago – in about the year 400 AD – a holy man came to Ireland. He was Saint Pаtrick. He came to teach the people about Christiаnity. At that time, there were many snakes in Ireland. Saint Patrick quickly destroyed all the snakes except one. The saint could not catch this clever old snake. So Pаtrick made a beautiful box and he showed it to the old snake. He invited the snake to look inside the box. The snake got into the box and Saint Pаtrick quickly shut the lid. Then he threw the box and the snake into the sea. So now people say that there are no snakes in Ireland because Saint Patrick killed all of them.
But this story not about Patric it is about Indian student Hаrkishаn Rаm Lai who hаd to work to earn money for studying. He decided to work as a builder, but his foremaster is hard and cruel man who doesn’t like foreigners. |
| Futrеlle, Jacquеs: The Prоblem Of Cеll 13 |
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Уровень сложности: начальный средний (pre-intermediate)
Жанр: приключения
Со звуковым сопровождением
The public knew Prоfessor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusеn as The Thinking Mаchinе and perhaps this phrase described him best of all. He always was in his small laboratory where he invented brilliant theоries that shocked scientists and had a profound effect on the world. One time he argued with his friends, he tried to convince that “the mind is master of everything”.
“No man can escape from a cell just using only his brain. If it would be possible, no prisoners would be at all. Just let’s imagine a case. A cell for prisoners who are condemned to death. These men will do anything to try to escape. Imagine you were in that cell. Could you escape?”
“Certainly, lock me in any cell of any prison where you want at any time, give me only casual clothes, and I’ll escape from there only in a week.” |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel: THE GREAT STONE FACE |
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| The Great Stone Face, et. al., by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Irving, Washington: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW |
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving |
| Jupp, T.C.: Rich Man, Poor Man |
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Уровень сложности: простой (elementary)
Жанр: драма
Со звуковым сопровождением
Adam lived a little village only with his wife Martha.
They had three daughter; but them are married and they has one son his name is Saul and he left the village two years ago, he live in London and working in Factoring.
One day the postman found one letter for Adam from Saul. The letter said that Saul sent a 100 dollars to his parents. They were very happy.
But the letter had problem, cause money wasn’t in cash but money order. So Adam had to go to the other country for change his money order money, and then the really big problems began. |
| Laird, Elizabeth: The House On The Hill |
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Уровень сложности: простой (elementary)
Жанр: рассказ о любви
It was a beautiful summer evening. Paul wanted to write and work for newspaper. Paul lived in a small town and he often walked outside in the country. One day, he saw the girl. She was very beautiful. Her name Maria. She lived in the big white house. Maria was rich, and he was poor. Paul and Maria was in love... |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
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| Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Matthews, Geoffrey: Space Invaders |
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Уровень сложности: простой (elementary)
Жанр: научная фантастика
In this story, set sometime in the future, Varon, an intergalactic pirate, manages to steal one of the most valuable items (предмет) in the Universe (вселенная). When he becomes trapped (загнан в ловушку), Omega offers his help but he has his own reasons for doing so. Omega is the robot that drives the best and the fastest spaceship in the Universe. The owner of this ship was killed by two thieves (воры) and spaceship was stolen. Some man set-up Omega to obey (подчиняться) commands from thieves, but now, after meeting with third thief, Varon, Omega has some plan… |
| Prescott, Richard: Ring Of Thieves |
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Уровень сложности: начальный средний (pre-intermediate)
Жанр: приключения, детектив
James Keating suddenly became conscious (пришел в сознание). He felt very bad, his head hurt badly and he didn’t understand who he was, where he was and totally didn’t remeber anything. Some boy woke him up. Only some time later he could find out his name and address by bussiness card from wallet (бумажник). Later at home Keating was woken by burglars (воры-домушники) as he thought, and tried to protect himself, but it was his girlfriend indeed, named Susan. Susan understand that it is very dangerous, so she decided to help him remember who he was and what happened. |
| Scott, Walter: My Aunt Margaret's Mirror |
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| My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, by Sir Walter Scott |
| Scott, Walter: THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER |
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The Tapestried Chamber, by Sir Walter Scott
Death of the Laird's Jock, by Sir Walter Scott |
| Shakespeare, William: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare, William: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING |
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| Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare, William: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE |
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The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
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| Shakespeare, William: THE RAPE OF LUCRECE |
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| The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare, William: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare, William: TITUS ANDRONICUS |
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| Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare, William: VENUS AND ADONIS |
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| Venus and Adonis, by William Shakespeare |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis: FATHER DAMIEN |
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| Father Damien, by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Swift, Jonathan: A Proposal for Correcting... |
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| A Proposal for Correcting..., by Jonathan Swift |
| Swift, Jonathan: The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers |
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| The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, by Jonathan Swift |
| Thackeray, W. M.: Some Roundabout Papers |
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| Some Roundabout Papers, by W. M. Thackeray |
| Twain, Mark: Extracts From Adam's Diary |
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| Extracts From Adam's Diary, by Mark Twain |
| Twain, Mark: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
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| The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain |
| Viney, Peter: Life Lines |
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Уровень сложности: простой (elementary)
Жанр: фантастика, детектив
Rachel works for Computer Astrology Ltd. She has a clever new idea for using the computer to read people’s hands. The idea is successful, but Rachel begins to wonder if it is really possible to tell the future. She asks the computer to compare thousands of hands from different cities. She want to get some interesting results, and she got it – results were surprising and frightening. Also so suddenly understand that she has very short life line. She was so scary that decided to leave the company she work and back to workt at some magazine as reporter. But prediction made by her hand can be done… |
| Wilde, Oscar: Charmides and Other Poems |
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| Charmides and Other Poems, by Oscar Wilde |
| Wilde, Oscar: The Happy Prince and Other Tales |
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| The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde |
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