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Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her father was a country gentleman down in your part of the world, and was a _______

• cowboy
• brewer
• smith
• builder

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The action of her fingers (to be) like the action of knitting. She stood looking at her master, not understanding whether she was free to go, or whether he had more to say to her and would call her back if she did go

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He did this _______ that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breastpocket

• such
• some
• as
• so

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and and my other hand on the red-hot fireplace B) «Which he wam’t strong enough, my dear, fur to be surprised,» said Joe

• А- true, В- true
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- true
• А- false, В- false

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) And I felt absolutely certain that this woman was Estella’s mother B) Almost fearing, without knowing why, to come in view of the fridge, I saw it at last, and saw that it was closed

• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- true
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- false

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) «No,» said Joe; «none but a runaway convict now and then. And we don’t find them, easy. Eh, Mr. Wopsle?» B) Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; ve-ery warmly

• А- false, В- false
• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- true
• А-true, В-false

Choose the right preposition: I sold all I had, and put aside as much as I could, for a composition with my creditors—who gave me ample time to pay them _______ full—and I went out and joined Herbert

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) But, as I was used to sit beside Joe whenever I entered that place of resort, I said «No, thank you, sir,» and fell into the space Joe made for me on the opposite settle B) The strange man, after glancing at Joe, and seeing that his attention was otherwise engaged, nodded to me again when I had taken my seat, and then rubbed his leg—in a very odd way, as it struck me. Then I saw his leg was broken

• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- false
• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- true

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or take any pains to _______ him out of that country

• chase
• ride
• drive
• fly

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go yesterday, and said so B) Wemmick drank a glass of wine and looked with a grimly satisfied air at Mr. Jaggers, but not at me

• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- false
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- true

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I had been doing this, in an excess of attention to _______ recital. I thanked him, and apologized. He said, «Not at all,» and resumed

• our
• her
• his
• him

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• «I wouldn’t wish to be stiff company,» said Joe. «Rum.» «Rum,» repeated the stranger. «And will the other gentleman originate a sentiment.» «Rum,» said Mr. Wopsle. «Three Rums!» cried the stranger, calling to the landlord. «Glasses round!»
• remember, and had grown more than I had. But there was a quantity of chalk about our country, and perhaps the people neglected no opportunity of turning it to account
• Why I was trying to pack mine into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say. I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making
• the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits. Again I thanked him and apologized, and again he said in the cheerfullest manner, «Not at all, I am sure!» and resumed
• There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the wall at the Side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off. They had been there ever since I could
• «This other gentleman,» observed Joe, by way of introducing Mr. Wopsle, «is a gentleman that you would like to hear give it out. Our clerk at church.» «Aha!» said the Stranger, quickly, and cocking his eye at me. «The lonely church, right out on the marshes, with the graves round it!»

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• I don’t know why it should be a crack thing to be a brewer; but it is indisputable that while you cannot possibly be genteel and bake, you may be as genteel as never was and brew. You see it every day.»
• Cheapside, and was strolling along it, surely the most unsettled person in all the busy concourse, when a large hand was laid upon my shoulder, by some one overtaking me. It was Mr. Jaggers’s hand, and he passed it through my arm
• «Miss Havisham was an only child?» I hazarded. «Stop a moment, I am coming to that. No, she was not an only child; she had a half-brother. Her father privately married again—his cook, I rather think.» «I thought he was proud,» said I
• My good Handel, so he was. He married his second wife privately, because he was proud, and in course of time she died. When she was dead, I apprehend he first told his daughter what he had done, and then the son became a part of the family, residing in the house you are acquainted with
• The second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter, occurred about a week after the first. I had again left my boat at the wharf below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, undecided where to dine, I had strolled up into
• «Yet a gentleman may not keep a public-house; may he?» said I. «Not on any account,» returned Herbert; «but a public-house may keep a gentleman. Well! Mr. Havisham was very rich and very proud. So was his daughter.»

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: After _______ silent turn in the garden, I fell back on the main position

• another
• two more
• more
• one more

Correspond the left and right parts

• but a runaway convict now and then
• пустынный
• discomfiture
• расстройство;
• solitary
• кроме иногда беглых заключенных

Choose the right preposition: I can be well recommended _______ all the neighbours, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Why I was trying to pack _______ into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say. I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits

• me
• a mine
• mine
• my

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• For, the beam across the parlour ceiling at Mill Pond Bank, had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley’s growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back
• it to his principal, instead of to me. «It’s a note of two lines, Pip,» said Mr. Jaggers, handing it on, «sent up to me by Miss Havisham, on account of her not being sure of your address. She tells me that she wants to see you on a little matter of business you mentioned to her. You’ll go down?»
• «How am I going to live?» repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary flush upon her face. «I’ll tell you, Mr. Pip. I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here. I can be well recommended by all the neighbours, and I hope I can be industrious and
• patient, and teach myself while I teach others. You know, Mr. Pip,» pursued Biddy, with a smile, as she raised her eyes to my face, «the new schools are not like the old, but I learnt a good deal from you after that time, and have had time since then to improve
• «Did you send that note of Miss Havisham’s to Mr. Pip, Wemmick?» Mr. Jaggers asked, soon after we began dinner. «No, sir,» returned Wemmick; «it was going by post, when you brought Mr. Pip into the office. Here it is.» He handed
• Many a year went round, before I was a partner in the House; but, I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: «No; I have seen him there, since we have been walking here.—It is of no use,» said Biddy, laying her hand upon my _______, as I was for running out, «you know I would not deceive you; he was not there a minute, and he is gone.»

• arm
• hand
• face
• butt

Choose the right preposition: We owed so much to Herbert’s ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea _______ his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: How often, while he was with me in my illness, (to have) it risen to my lips

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His _______ was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and young

• image
• look
• face
• figure

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They were both (to melt) by these words, and both entreated me to say no more

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The strange man, after glancing at Joe, and seeing that his attention was otherwise engaged, nodded to me again when I had taken my seat, and then rubbed his _______—in a very odd way, as it struck me

• face
• butt
• leg
• thigh

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• Biddy cried; the darkening garden, and the lane, and the stars that were coming out, were blurred in my own sight. «Nothing was ever discovered, Biddy?» «Nothing.» «Do you know what is become of Orlick?»
• never lifted her head up any more, and it was just an hour later when we laid it down on her own bed, because we found she was gone
• Why I was trying to pack mine into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say. I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making
• the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits. Again I thanked him and apologized, and again he said in the cheerfullest manner, «Not at all, I am sure!» and resumed
• So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down on his shoulder quite content and satisfied. And so she presently said “Joe” again, and once “Pardon,” and once “Pip.” And so she
• «I should think from the colour of his clothes that he is working in the quarries.» «Of course you have seen him then?—Why are you looking at that dark tree in the lane?» «I saw him there, on the night she died.» «That was not the last time either, Biddy?»

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And Joe and Biddy both, as you have (to be) to church to-day, and are in charity and love with all mankind, receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me and all I have so ill repaid

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• Almost fearing, without knowing why, to come in view of the forge, I saw it at last, and saw that it was closed. No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still.
• «But dear Biddy, how smart you are!» «Yes, dear Pip.» «And Joe, how smart you are!» «Yes, dear old Pip, old chap.» I looked at both of them, from one to the other, and then— «It’s my wedding-day,» cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, «and I am married to Joe!»
• The second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter, occurred about a week after the first. I had again left my boat at the wharf below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, undecided where to dine, I had strolled up into
• Cheapside, and was strolling along it, surely the most unsettled person in all the busy concourse, when a large hand was laid upon my shoulder, by some one overtaking me. It was Mr. Jaggers’s hand, and he passed it through my arm
• At first Biddy gave a cry, as if she thought it was my apparition, but in another moment she was in my embrace. I wept to see her, and she wept to see me; I, because she looked so fresh and pleasant; she, because I looked so worn and white.
• But, the house was not deserted, and the best parlour seemed to be in use, for there were white curtains fluttering in its window, and the window was open and gay with flowers. I went softly towards it, meaning to peep over the flowers, when Joe and Biddy stood before me arm in arm

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I have not heard the _______ of my sister’s death, Biddy

• binoculars
• particulars
• intestines
• details

Correspond the left and right parts

• majestic
• запутанный
• discomfiture
• расстройство;
• snarling
• величественный

Choose the right preposition: He was a secret-looking man whom I had never seen before. His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim _______ something with an invisible gun

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Many a year went round, before I (to be) a partner in the House; but, I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) «Did you send that note of Miss Havisham’s to Mr. Pip, Wemmick?» Mr. Jaggers asked, soon after we began dinner B) «No, sir,» returned Wemmick; «it was going by post, when you brought Mr. Pip into the office. Here it is.» He handed it to his principal, instead of to me

• А- false, В- false
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- true
• А- true, В- true

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She was so quiet, and had such an orderly, good, and pretty way _______ her, that I did not like the thought of making her cry again

• around
• to
• from
• with

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the _______ at the Side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off

• wall
• window
• floor
• ceiling

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Take another glass of _______, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one’s glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one’s nose

• beer
• wiskey
• wine
• vodka

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Well! I rather thought I would give up that point …

• from
• as well
• too
• to

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• «How am I going to live?» repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary flush upon her face. «I’ll tell you, Mr. Pip. I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here. I can be well recommended by all the neighbours, and I hope I can be industrious and
• «Indeed, it would be hard to say too much for him,» said I; «and Biddy, we must often speak of these things, for of course I shall be often down here now. I am not going to leave poor Joe alone.» Biddy said never a single word. «Biddy, don’t you hear me?» «Yes, Mr. Pip.»
• «О dear old Pip, old chap,» said Joe. «God knows as I forgive you, if I have anythink to forgive!» «Amen! And God knows I do!» echoed Biddy. «Now let me go up and look
• at my old little room, and rest there a few minutes by myself, and then when I have eaten and drunk with you, go with me as far as the fingerpost, dear Joe and Biddy, before we say good-bye!»
• By degrees she led me into more temperate talk, and she told me how Joe loved me, and how Joe never complained of anything—she didn’t say, of me; she had no need; I knew what she meant—but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart
• patient, and teach myself while I teach others. You know, Mr. Pip,» pursued Biddy, with a smile, as she raised her eyes to my face, «the new schools are not like the old, but I learnt a good deal from you after that time, and have had time since then to improve

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) Joe looked at me with a quivering lip, and fairly put his sleeve before his ears. B) And Joe and Biddy both, as you have been to church to-day, and are in charity and love with all mankind, receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me and all I have so ill repaid!

• А- false, В- true
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- false
• А- true, В- true

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) He stirred his rum-and-water pointedly at me, and he tasted his rum-and-water pointedly at me B) And he stirred it and he tasted it: not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a finger

• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- true
• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- false

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• We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well. We owed so much to Herbert’s ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had
• may not have it all his own way. The stronger will win in the end, but the stronger has to be be a question of intellect, he certainly will not. It would be chance work to give an opinion how a fellow of that sort will turn out in such circumstances, because it’s a toss-up between two results.» «May I ask what they are?»
• It was not until I became third in the Firm, that Clarriker betrayed me to Herbert; but, he then declared that the secret of Herbert’s partnership had been long enough upon his conscience, and he must tell it
• So, he told it, and Herbert was as much moved as amazed, and the dear fellow and I were not the worse friends for the long concealment. I must not leave it to be supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money
• If he should turn to, and beat her—» «Surely,» I interrupted, with a burning face and heart, «you do not seriously think that he is scoundrel enough for that, Mr. Jaggers?» «I didn’t say so, Pip. I am putting a case. If he should turn to and beat her, he may possibly get the strength on his side; if it should
• conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me

Choose the right preposition: Why I was trying to pack mine _______ my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say. I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits

Correspond the left and right parts

• «You was saying,» said the strange man, turning to Joe, «that you was a blacksmith.» «Yes, I said it, you know,» said Joe. «What’ll you drink, Mr.—? You didn’t mention your name, by-the-bye.» Joe mentioned it now, and the strange man
• remember, and had grown more than I had. But there was a quantity of chalk about our country, and perhaps the people neglected no opportunity of turning it to account
• «I wouldn’t wish to be stiff company,» said Joe. «Rum.» «Rum,» repeated the stranger. «And will the other gentleman originate a sentiment.» «Rum,» said Mr. Wopsle. «Three Rums!» cried the stranger, calling to the landlord. «Glasses round!»
• «This other gentleman,» observed Joe, by way of introducing Mr. Wopsle, «is a gentleman that you would like to hear give it out. Our clerk at church.» «Aha!» said the Stranger, quickly, and cocking his eye at me. «The lonely church, right out on the marshes, with the graves round it!»
• There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the wall at the Side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off. They had been there ever since I could
• called him by it. «What’ll you drink, Mr. Gargery? At my expense? To top up with?» «Well,» said Joe, «to tell you the truth, I ain’t much in the habit of drinking at anybody’s expense but my own.» «Habit? No,» returned the stranger, «but once and away, and on a Saturday night too. Come! Put a name to it, Mr. Gargery.»

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) «I have an impending bankrupcy,» said I, glancing at Wemmick, who was putting fish into the post-office, «that renders me rather uncertain of my time. At once, I think.» B) «If Mr. Pip has the intention of going at once,» said Wemmick to Mr. Jaggers, «he needn’t write a contract, you know.»

• А- false, В- false
• А-true, В-false
• А- true, В- true
• А- false, В- true

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• Early in the morning, I was to go. Early in the morning, I was out, and looking in, unseen, at one of the wooden windows of the forge. There I stood, for minutes, looking
• I sat gazing at him, spell-bound. But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips. He was still a pale young gentleman, and had a certain conquered languor about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seem indicative of natural strength
• This I would not hear of, so he took the top, and I faced him. It was a nice little dinner—seemed to me then, a very Lord Mayor’s Feast—and it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent
• circumstances, with no old people by, and with London all around us. This again was heightened by a certain gipsy character that set the banquet off; for, while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury
• He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breastpocket. I knew it to be Joe’s file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument
• at Joe, already at work with a glow of health and strength upon his face that made it show as if the bright sun of the life in store for him were shining on it. «Good-bye, dear Joe!—No, don’t wipe it off—for God’s sake, give me your blackened hand!—I shall be down soon, and often.»

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up? A) I compared them with other hands, other eyes, other hair, that I knew of, and with what those might be after eighty years of a brutal husband and a stormy life. B) I looked again at those hands and eyes of the housekeeper, and thought of the inexplicable feeling that had come over me when I last walked—not alone—in the ruined garden, and through the deserted brewery

• А-true, В-false
• А- false, В- false
• А- false, В- true
• А- true, В- true

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Don’t tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don’t tell him, Biddy, that I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him that I honoured you both, because you were both so good and true, and that, as your child, I said it would be natural to him to grow up a much better man than I (to do)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: How irrevocable would (to have) been his knowledge of it, if he had remained with me but another hour

Choose the right preposition: Don’t suppose that I mean to be unkind, Biddy, when I say .. You I consider that you ought to have thought that

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He offered these friendly suggestions in such a lively way, that we both laughed and I scarcely (to blush)

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It revived my _______ indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him

• smallest
• greatest
• deadliest
• utmost