IV. Choose the correct answer. 1. When did the Cleavers move into an elegant London house?
a) When Mrs. Cleaver earned her first million.
b) When Mrs. Cleaver fell ill.
c) When Mr. Cleaver got a new job.
d) When Mr. Cleaver made his first million.
2. In what way did the Cleavers set out to climb the social ladder?
a) Mr. Cleaver bought a famous English football team.
b) Mrs. Cleaver frequented a fashionable French club.
c) They were trying to discover family ties with Queen Elizabeth.
d) They hired a very expensive chef and butler.
3. What kind o f dinners did they give?
a) Their dinners were lavish but imperfect.
b) The dinners were superb and perfect.
c) The food was superb but the service was awful.
d) Their dinners were the best in London: the food was superb and the service faultless.
4. What was the reason that parties were not a success?
a) Few people came to their parties.
b) Their French chef often served frogs for dinner.
c) The guests behaved disgracefully.
d) They served a cheap and very odious Spanish red wine.
5. What did Mr. Cleaver tell Tibbs to do?
a) He asked him to find a new chef.
b) Mr. Cleaver was very angry with his butler and told him to leave the house immediately.
c) He ordered to buy the best wine in the world and fill the flipping cellar from top to
bottom.
d) Mr. Cleaver told Tibbs to go out and get as much money as it was necessary to buy the
best wine in the world.
6. It wasn't easy to buy the best wine in the world, was it?
a) No, it was.
b) Yes, it wasn't.
c) No, it wasn't
d) Yes, it was.
Text 3 As I went into the Casino with the friends at whose villa I was staying, I saw Percy again.
Actually, he was with friends him self and I didn't have the opportunity o f doing more than bid him
good evening. Indeed, my attention was quickly diverted by the young and attractive Marquise de
Beauvallon, who was making what appeared to be a scene at No. 3 Roulette table. Eventually, the
ever-tactful Francois, who runs the casino for the municipality, bore her to one side and with suave
gestures and sympathetic murmurs soothed her down.
A little later, I managed to get Francois alone and asked him what Mme de Beauvallon's
trouble was. He shrugged his shoulders: «She says she had 20,000 francs stolen from her bag - the
money she had just won when No. 18 turned up. I was surprised. This was the first time in all the
years I had been to San Carolino that an incident o f this kind had happened in the Casino.
Occasional arguments there had been, o f course, over the usual question as to whether chips had
been deposited after the croupier had called «rien ne va plus» but a theft 'in mid-Casino', so to
speak, and o f this magnitude, had never to my knowledge occurred. During the next few days,
however, incidents o f this nature were to recur - though in different ways. There was M. Reveiller,
the Paris couturier, who had an extremely valuable gold cigarette case stolen from his waistcoat
pocket; and Miss Baba Engelmann, who missed a diamond-studded bracelet when she was at the
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baccarat table - and, o f course, the Moldavian military attache, who had a wad o f currency stolen
from his overcoat - currency that he had so carefully smuggled out o f his own country.»
Now these incidents, serious though they were in themselves, were fairly effectively hushed
up by the management, and few o f the main body o f people frequenting the Casino knew that
anything was amiss. But F r a n c is realized clearly, and I realized too that an extraordinarily clever
thief was in our midst. The local police were therefore brought in to aid the resident Casino
detective, and Francois told me confidently that it was only a matter o f time before the culprit was
laid by the heels. For myself, I must say that secretly I began rather to enjoy the hunt.