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Выберите правильный вариант: I have notes of some half-dozen cases of the kind, the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual and that which I am about to recount are the two which present the strongest features of interest.

Выберите правильный вариант: In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures.

Выберите правильный вариант: It was with an almost cruel joy-- and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place--that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and the world, he had most dearly valued.

Выберите правильный вариант: Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself.

Выберите правильный вариант: Now and again, however. it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered.

Выберите правильный вариант: Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

Выберите правильный вариант: Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake.

Выберите правильный вариант: That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.

Выберите правильный вариант: The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

Выберите правильный вариант: The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.

Выберите правильный вариант: The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider. The monotony became unbearable, and as the mist thickened, he felt afraid.

Выберите правильный вариант: "In this fog, my dear Basil? Why, I can't even recognize Grosvenor Square. I believe my house is somewhere about here, but I don't feel at all certain about it. I am sorry you are going away, as I have not seen you for ages. But I suppose you will be back soon?"

Выберите правильный вариант: All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.

Выберите правильный вариант: Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.

Выберите правильный вариант: For a moment I thought they might have got wet and been burned in the drying.

Выберите правильный вариант: In the latter, as may be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time -- a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.

Выберите правильный вариант: One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.

Выберите правильный вариант: Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate.

Выберите правильный вариант: Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.

Выберите правильный вариант: The soles which you are at this moment presenting to me are slightly scorched.

Выберите правильный вариант: The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records

Выберите правильный вариант: There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been, and probably never will be, entirely cleared up.

Выберите правильный вариант: You could not have had them more than a few weeks.

Выберите правильный вариант: Of course, they are charitable.

Выберите правильный вариант: After a few moments, in her black silk dress, with old-fashioned thread mittens on her wrinkled hands, Mrs. Leaf bustled into the library. He asked her for the key of the schoolroom.

Выберите правильный вариант: As the door closed, Dorian put the key in his pocket and looked round the room. His eye fell on a large, purple satin coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna.

Выберите правильный вариант: At the corner of Grosvenor Square and South Audley Street, a man passed him in the mist, walking very fast and with the collar of his grey ulster turned up. He had a bag in his hand. Dorian recognized him. It was Basil Hallward. A strange sense of fear, for which he could not account, came over him. He made no sign of recognition and went on quickly in the direction of his own house.

Выберите правильный вариант: But Hallward had seen him. Dorian heard him first stopping on the pavement and then hurrying after him. In a few moments, his hand was on his arm.

Выберите правильный вариант: Dorian! What an extraordinary piece of luck! I have been waiting for you in your library ever since nine o'clock.

Выберите правильный вариант: Finally I took pity on your tired servant and told him to go to bed, as he let me out. I am off to Paris by the midnight train, and I particularly wanted to see you before I left. I thought it was you, or rather your fur coat, as you passed me. But I wasn't quite sure. Didn't you recognize me?"

Выберите правильный вариант: For the wonderful beauty that had so fascinated Basil Hallward, and many others besides him, seemed never to leave him.

Выберите правильный вариант: He felt that if he brooded on what he had gone through he would sicken or grow mad. There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Выберите правильный вариант: In both cases “structuralism” is opposed to “atomism” in the European literature.

Выберите правильный вариант: In one point he was more fortunate than the novel's fantastic hero. He never knew--never, indeed, had any cause to know--that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors, and polished metal surfaces, and still water which came upon the young Parisian so early in his life, and was occasioned by the sudden decay of a beau that had once, apparently, been so remarkable.

Выберите правильный вариант: In the early 1970s the majority of the known grammatical treatises had not yet been made available in full to modern scholarship, so that not even their true extent could be classified with confidence.

Выберите правильный вариант: It involves aesthetic and psychological responses to colour and influences art, fashion, commerce, and even physical and emotional sensations.

Выберите правильный вариант: It is possible that developments in grammar during the Middle Ages constitute one of the most misunderstood areas of the field of linguistics.

Выберите правильный вариант: It is difficult to relate this period coherently to other periods and to modern concerns because surprisingly little is accessible and certain, let alone analyzed with sophistication.

Выберите правильный вариант: It seemed to him that as the man left the room his eyes wandered in the direction of the screen. Or was that merely his own fancy?

Выберите правильный вариант: Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

Выберите правильный вариант: On and on plodded the hansom, going slower, it seemed to him, at each step. He thrust up the trap and called to the man to drive faster. The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him.

Выберите правильный вариант: One example of the link between colour and emotion is the common perception that red, orange, yellow, and brown hues are “warm,” while the blues, greens, and grays are “cold.”

Выберите правильный вариант: People are afraid of themselves, nowadays.

Выберите правильный вариант: Students of grammar have tended to see as high points in their field the achievements of the Greeks, the Renaissance growth and “rediscovery” of learning (which led directly to modern school traditions), the contemporary flowering of theoretical study (men usually find their own age important and fascinating), and, in recent decades, the astonishing monument of Pāṇini.

Выберите правильный вариант: The dead man was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now. How horrible that was! Such hideous things were for the darkness, not for the day.

Выберите правильный вариант: The differences were and are largely matters of attitude, emphasis, and purpose.

Выберите правильный вариант: The field of linguistics has almost completely neglected the achievements of this period.

Выберите правильный вариант: The most important aspect of colour in daily life is probably the one that is least defined and most variable.

Выберите правильный вариант: The painter stared in amazement.

Выберите правильный вариант: The philologist is concerned primarily with the historical development of languages as it is manifest in written texts and in the context of the associated literature and culture.