Inside, a man smiled grimly as he turned from the bathroom cabinet, entered
the expensively primitive living-room of his mountain camp, and crossed to a
closet set in the pine wall. <...> It was his special closet, with a spring lock and in it he kept guns,
ammunition, fishing-rods, tackle and liquor, Not even his wife was allowed to
have a key, for Judson Webb loved his personal possessions and felt a sense of
deep outrage if they were touched by any hand but his own. <...> The closet door stood
open, he had been packing his things away for the winter and in a few minutes
would be driving back to civilization. <...> As he looked at the shelf on which the liquor stood his smile was not
attractive. <...> All the bottles were unopened except one quart of Bourbon which was
placed invitingly in front, a whiskey glass by its side. <...> As he took it from the shelf his wife spoke from the adjoining bedroom.
"I'm all packed, Judson. <...> Hasn't Alec come to run the water off and get the
keys?"
Alec lived about a mile down the road and acted as caretaker for the city folks
when they were away.
"He's down at the lake taking boats out of water. <...> Said he'd be back in half an
hour."
Marcia came into the room carrying her suitcase, She paused in surprise as she
saw the bottle in her husband's hand.
"Judson!" she exclaimed, "you're not taking a drink at ten o'clock in the
morning?" "You wrong me, my dear," he chuckled. "I'm not taking anything out
of this bottle. <...> I am putting a little kick into it."
His closed hand opened and he put upon the table two tiny white pellets as he
started to uncork the whiskey. <...> She had
learned to dread that tone of his voice, the tone he used when he was planning to
"put something over"' in a business deal.
"Whoever broke into my closet last winter and stole my liquor will probably
try it again once we are out of here <...>
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Рецензенты
Комлева Е.В., кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры
иностранных языков Оренбургского государственного педагогического
университета
Жукова Е.Э., кандидат педагогических наук, доцент кафедры
иностранных языков Оренбургского института МГЮА
Николаева Н.Т.
Тексты и задания для домашнего чтения. Часть вторая – Издание второе
– исправленное и дополненное. Оренбург, 2014. – 50 с.
Пособие содержит неадаптированные художественные произведения
американских и английских авторов XX столетия, вопросы и задания для
самостоятельной работы студентов и тематику сочинений. Пособие
адресовано преподавателям, студентам второго курса факультетов
иностранных языков, может быть полезно учителям школ.
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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ
Текст 1. RUTHLESS by William de Mille …………………………………..….4
Текст2. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED byRudyard Kipling…………………....10
Текст3. THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene …………………….…15
Текст4. THE MAN OF PROPERTY by John Galsworthy…………………..…22
Текст5. WHEELSbyArthurHailey…..……………………………………….38
Тематикасочиненийкитоговымзанятиям ………………………………..…49
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