Список вопросов базы знаний

?) brandy

?) vodka

?) highballs

?) red wine

?) had a beard and moustache, enormous mouth and bright sensuous lips, the large brown eyes forever brimming with pathos

?) had a wrinked freckled face, with big blue eyes and black moustache thin, and

?) looked like his father, but unlike him, there was an ugly look in his eye

?) had thin long grey beard and was handsome with long grey beаrd and moustache

?) gold watch jewelled in twelve holes

?) emerald ear-rings

?) jade ring

?) sapphire ring

?) looked young and felt fresh

?) had a blank vacant look

?) looked like a million dollars

?) had a haggard careworn wealthy look

?) tried to break

?) sold

?) smashed up

?) threw away

?) very sick

?) almost black

?) too weak

?) terribly red

?) Holy Father

?) the Prime Minister

?) the Archbishop

?) the Bishop

?) telling a lie

?) a mix-up

?) unprofessional conduct

?) being stupid

?) shame

?) fact

?) pride

?) challenge

?) Raymond suggested they should divorce

?) they bitterly repented and decided to keep their daughter

?) Lou felt remorse and said that they had done the wrong thing

?) Lou said they had done the right thing

?) Raymond’s slim figure and Lou’s youthfull appearance, and she sounded sincere

?) Raymond’s tie, hat and cigarette-case, but she had an accusing tone

?) Lou’s hat, bag, gloves and shoes but she had an accusing tone

?) Lou’s good looks, but she sounded unnatural

?) thinner and hollow-cheeked

?) more refined

?) fatter, a little coarser and tough in his manner

?) more refined in his manner but had emaciated appearance

?) his mother was ill and he had to take care of her

?) he thought he was going to be sick

?) he would go with his parents to Scotland

?) he would have to go to church

?) school reputation

?) girlfriend’s name

?) real name

?) address

?) a demolished

?) a half destroyed

?) an old

?) a new

?) an empty house in the Bayswater Road

?) a great house in Montagu Square

?) a small house near Westbourne Grove

?) a private spacious apartment in Baker Street

?) “We are friends forever”

?) “We four must stick together”

?) “We must take care of each other”

?) “We should never part”

?) the strangers’

?) our friends’

?) our family’s

?) our own

?) with her parents

?) alone

?) with an invalid mother

?) with her boyfriend

?) sad

?) too pretentious

?) fine

?) a bit gloomy

?) Wren who had built St. Paul’s

?) the same architect who had built St. Martin in the Fields

?) an unknown architect

?) his father

?) ten years younger

?) as if he were at death’s door

?) dithery and confused and old

?) as if his head were bursting

?) new mahogany furniture and pleasure car

?) new apartment in the city center

?) larger flat

?) house

?) Blackie

?) Summers

?) Mike

?) Joe

?) three

?) eight

?) five

?) four

?) Lou’s sister

?) Raymond’s sister

?) Lou’s cousin

?) Raymond’s cousin

?) well-kept

?) very clean

?) smelly and dirty

?) well painted and the floor shone with polishing

?) “serions” and “entertaining”

?) too complicated for an ordinary reader

?) “funny” and “entertaining”

?) “spiritual” and “elevated”

?) he was sick and tired of his schoolmates

?) his father’s friend offered him a good job in London

?) he wanted to follow his friend who had gone to New York

?) he hated his teachers and learning

?) headmaster

?) doctor

?) petty official

?) lawyer

?) cold

?) nephritis

?) tuberculosis

?) double pneumonia

?) simple soul

?) man of moods

?) cheery big soul

?) man of wisdom

?) the local newspaper

?) Tina Farrell

?) her neighbours

?) the parish magazine

?) the Teachers’ Guild

?) a guild of bank clerks

?) the guild of merchants

?) the Nurses’ Guild

?) forty

?) twenty-nine

?) thirty-seven

?) thirty-three

?) Thomas after her uncle

?) Oxford or Henry after one of their friends

?) George after Raymond’s father

?) James after Elizabeth’s son

?) to go to Paris for a holiday

?) to buy a new house

?) to buy the Monet and the Bonnard

?) to sell his art collection

?) indeterminate hair and eyes of a startling clear blue which gave her otherwise anonymous face a resemblance to a holy statue

?) freckled face and big blue eyes, she loоked like a teenager

?) a very beautiful face and a strong resemblance to an actress

?) long heavy curling hair and deep dark eyes, she looked like Mr. Ferraro’s wife big, eyes, she looked likeateenager

?) secret agent

?) assistant confidential secretary

?) Mr. Ferraro’s special friend

?) personal assistant

?) The Feraros’ indulgences

?) Mr. Ferraro’s indulgences

?) Miss Ferraro’s indulgences

?) everybody’s indulgences in Mr. Ferraro’s firm

?) were Protestants

?) came from different departments of life

?) voted for Tory Party

?) were workers

?) his confidential secretary

?) an old gentleman

?) a middle-aged man

?) a young man

?) ten years ago when he followed his wife’s advice

?) five years ago after his father’s death

?) three years ago after a severe attack of pneumonia

?) last year after his nervous break-down

?) six Renoirs and two Degas

?) two Cezannes and three Degas

?) a single Degas, Renoir, Cezanne

?) six Renoirs, four Degas, five Cezannes

?) Miss Saunders to open the window

?) Miss Sounders to leave home for work

?) something to happen

?) the rain to stop

?) he had been less occupied

?) his wife had been less busy

?) his wife had not been sick

?) he had been more religious

?) never tried

?) hated

?) always preferred

?) seldom tried

?) Buddhist

?) Roman Catholic

?) Moslem

?) Orthodox

?) novelist, playwright, biographer, writer of children’s books and poet

?) novelist and playwright

?) novelist and poet

?) novelist, playwright and biographer

?) Kathleen’s aunt and the maid had gone shopping to London where they were unexpectedly delayed and Kathleen decided to stay with them

?) Kathleen was ill and her aunt with the maid went to London to visit her

?) Kathleen`s aunt was at her friends’ in London, the maid had left the service and Kathleen had preferred to go to Scotland

?) Kathleen`s aunt was abroad, the maid on holiday and Kathleen was unexpectedly delayed in London on some business