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The underlined word is: "I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil Hallward, strolling towards the door that led into the garden. "I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose."

The underlined word is: "I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it."

The underlined word is: "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place."

The underlined word is: "Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing….”

The underlined word is: "Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."

The underlined word is: "Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. …”

The underlined word is: "Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves…”

The underlined word is: "You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist. "Of course I am not like him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. …”

The underlined word is: As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

The underlined word is: From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey- coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

The underlined word is: In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

The underlined word is: Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.

The underlined word is: Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed. "Yes, I knew you would; but it is quite true, all the same."

The underlined word is: The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

The underlined word is: ‘ They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are--my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks--we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."

The underlined word is: “ But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all. I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me."

The underlined word is: “ How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks….”

The underlined word is: “ I feel quite sure of that. He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you are not in the least like him."

The underlined word is: “ Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you-- well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions…”

The underlined word is: “The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live--undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet….”

The underlined word is: “When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life. I suppose you think me awfully foolish about it?"

The underlined word is: “When we meet--we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces. My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do. …”

The underlined word is: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) "Heaven only knows, my own precious!" Miss Overmore reply, tenderly embracing her.

B) There was indeed no doubt that she were dear to this beautiful friend.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) "That makes her treatment of you all the greater scandal," the governess in possession promptly declared.

B) "Mrs. Farange is too well aware," said Mrs. Wix with sustained spirit, "of what becomes of her letters in this house."

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) As for Mrs. Wix, papa's companion

supply Maisie in later converse with the right word for the attitude of this personage: Mrs. Wix "stood up" to her in a manner that the child herself felt at the time to be astonishing.

B) This occurr indeed after

Miss Overmore had so far raised her interdict as to make a move to the dining-room, where, in the absence of any suggestion of sitting down, it was scarcely more than natural that even poor Mrs. Wix should stand up.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Everything that had happened

when she was really little was dormant, everything but the positive certitude, bequeathed from afar by Moddle, that the natural way for a child to have her parents was separate and successive, like her mutton and her pudding or her bath and her nap.

B) The day were at hand, and she saw it, when she should feel more delight in hurling Maisie at him than in snatching her away; so much so that her conscience winced under the acuteness of a candid friend who had remarked that the real end of all their tugging would be that each

parent would try to make the little girl a burden to the other--a sort of game in which a fond mother clearly wouldn't show to advantage. Подберите правильный ответ

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Familiar as she have grown with the

fact of the great alternative to the proper, she felt in her governess and her father a strong reason for not emulating that detachment.

B) At the same time she have heard somehow of little girls--of exalted rank, it was

true--whose education was carried on by instructors of the other sex, and she knew that if she were at school at Brighton it would be thought an advantage to her to be more or less in the hands of masters.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) He had been destined in his youth for diplomacy and momentarily attached, without

a salary, to a legation which enabled him often to say "In MY time in the East": but contemporary history had somehow had no use for him, had hurried past him and left him in perpetual Piccadilly. Every one knew what he had--only twenty-five hundred. Poor Ida, who had run through everything, had now nothing but her carriage and her paralysed uncle.

B) This old brute, as he was called, was supposed to have a lot put away.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It had seemed to her on their parting that Mrs. Wix had reached the last limits of the squeeze, but she now felt those limits to be transcended and that the duration of her visitor's hug was a direct reply to Miss Overmore's veto.

B) She understood in a flash how the visit had come to be possible--that Mrs. Wix, watching her chance, must have slipped in under protection of the fact that papa, always tormented in spite of arguments with the idea of a school, had, for a three days' excursion to Brighton, absolutely insisted on the attendance of her adversary.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It was a contradiction that if Ida had now a fancy for waiving the rights she had originally been so hot about her late husband shouldn't jump at the monopoly for which he had also in the first instance so fiercely fought; but when Maisie, with a subtlety beyond her years, sounded this

new ground her main success was in hearing her mother more freshly abused.

B) Miss Overmore had up to now rarely deviated from a decent reserve, but the day came when she expressed herself with a vividness not inferior to Beale's own on the subject of the lady who had fled to the Continent to wriggle out of her job.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It was Miss Overmore herself who explained to Maisie that she had had a hope of being allowed to accompany her to her father's, and that this hope had been dashed by the way her mother took it.

B) She says that if I ever do such a thing as enter his service I must never expect to show my face in this house again.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It were true that when Maisie explained their absence and their important motive Mrs. Wix wore an expression so peculiar that it could only have had its origin in surprise.

B) This contradiction indeed peeped out only to vanish, for at the very moment that, in the spirit of it, she throw herself afresh upon her young friend a hansom crested with neat luggage rattled up to the door and Miss Overmore bounded out.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses.

B) The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Like her husband she carried clothes, carried them as a train carries passengers: people had been known to compare their taste and dispute about the accommodation they gave these articles, though inclining on the whole to the commendation of Ida as less overcrowded, especially with jewellery and flowers.

B) Beale Farange had natural decorations, a kind of costume in his vast fair beard, burnished like a gold breastplate, and in the eternal glitter of the teeth that his long moustache had been trained not to hide and that gave him, in every possible situation, the look of the joy of life.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Maisie associated this showier presence with

her now being "big," knowing of course that nursery-governesses were only for little girls who were not, as she said, "really" little.

B) She vaguely know, further, somehow, that the future was still bigger than she, and that a part of what made it so was the number of governesses lurking in it and ready to dart out. Подберите правильный ответ

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Moddle had become at this time, after alternations of residence of which the child had no clear record, an image faintly embalmed in the remembrance of hungry disappearances from the nursery and distressful lapses in the alphabet, sad embarrassments, in particular, when invited to recognize something her nurse described as "the important letter haitch."

B) Miss Overmore, however hungry, never disappeared: this marked her somehow as

of higher rank, and the character was confirmed by a prettiness that Maisie supposed to be extraordinary.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Mrs. Farange had described her as almost too pretty, and some one had asked what that mattered so long as Beale wasn't there. "

B) Beale or no Beale," Maisie had heard her mother reply, "I take her because she's a lady and yet awfully poor.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Nothing could incommode him more than not to got the good, for the child, of a nice female appendage who had clearly taken a fancy to her.

B) One of the things Ida said to the appendage was that Beale's was a house in which no decent woman could consent to be seen.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Rather nice people, but there is seven sisters at home. What do people mean?"

B) Maisie don't know what people meant, but she knew very soon all the names of all the sisters; she could say them off better than she could say the multiplication-table. Подберите правильный ответ

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She evaded the point and only kick up all

round it the dust of Ida's heartlessness and folly, of which the supreme proof, it appeared, was the fact that she was accompanied on her journey by a gentleman whom, to be painfully plain on it, she had--well, "picked up."

B) The terms on which, unless they was married, ladies and gentlemen might, as Miss Overmore expressed it, knock about together, were the terms on which she and Mr. Farange had exposed themselves to possible misconception.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She have indeed, as has been noted, often explained this before, often said to Maisie: "I don't know what in the world, darling, your father and I should do without you, for you just make the

difference, as I've told you, of keeping us perfectly proper."

B) The child

take in the office it was so endearingly presented to her that she performed a comfort that helped her to a sense of security even in the event of her mother's giving her up.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She privately wonder moreover, though she never asked, about the awful poverty, of which her companion also never spoke.

B) Food at any rate come up by mysterious laws; Miss Overmore never, like Moddle, had on an apron, and when she ate she held her fork with her little finger curled out.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She saw more and more; she saw too much.

B) It was Miss Overmore, her first governess, who on a momentous occasion had sown the seeds of secrecy; sown them not by anything she said, but by a mere roll of those fine eyes which Maisie already admired.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She turned these things over and remarked to Miss Overmore that if she should go to her mother perhaps the gentleman might become her tutor.

B) It quite fell in with this intensity those one day, on returning from a walk with the housemaid, Maisie should have found her in the hall, seated on the stool usually occupied by the telegraph-boys who haunted Beale Farange's door and kicked their heels while, in his room, answers to their missives took form with the aid of smoke-puffs and growls.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) So I've promised not to attempt to go with you.

B) If I wait patiently till you come back here we shall certainly be together once more.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) The bright creature told her little charge frankly what had happened--that she had really been unable to hold out.

B) She had broke her vow to Mrs. Farange; she had struggled for three days and then had come straight to Maisie's papa and told him the simple truth.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) The child, who watch her at many moments, watched her particularly at that one.

B) "I think you're lovely,"

she often say to her; even mamma, who was lovely too, had not such a pretty way with the fork.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) The prospect of not showing to advantage, a distinction in which she held she had never fail, begot in Ida Farange an ill humour of which several persons felt the effect.

B) She determined that Beale at any rate should feel it; she reflected afresh that in the study of how to be odious to him she must never give way.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) The shock of her encounter with Mrs. Wix was less violent than Maisie had feared on seeing her and didn't at all interfere with the sociable tone in which, under her rival's eyes, she explained to her little charge that she had returned, for a particular reason, a day sooner than she first intended.

B) She have left papa--in such nice lodgings--at Brighton; but he would come back to his dear little home on the morrow.

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