4. The old shepherd said it was dangerous for the boys to lie beneath those cypress-trees.
5. All English people were lords according to the curious peasant idea.
6. The old shepherd knew that it was dangerous for the boys to lie beneath those cypress-trees but
he didn't know why.
II. Put the sentences in the correct order in accordance with the context of the text.
1. And you must never, for any reason, sleep beneath a cypress.
2. The person I liked best was the old shepherd Yani, a tall, slouching man with a great hooked nose
like an eagle, and incredible moustaches.
3. «Good afternoon,» he greeted me gruffly; «you are the foreigner ... the little English lord?»
4. «Why? Why? Because if you did, you would be changed when you woke.»
5.1 glanced up at the cypresses, but they seemed safe enough to me and so I asked why he thought
they were dangerous.
6. I first met him one hot afternoon when Roger and I had spent an exhausting hour trying to dig a
large green lizard out o f its hole in a stone wall.
III. Complete the following sentences in accordance with the text.
1. The person the story-teller liked best w a s ___.
a) his friend Roger
b) the old shepherd Yani
c) the old magician Yani
d) his friend Yani
2. He first met him one hot afternoon when Roger and the story-teller___ to dig a large green lizard
out o f its hole in a stone wall.
a) had spent an exhausting hour trying
b) had no desire
c) had spent an exciting hour trying
d) asked the old shepherd
3. At length, unsuccessful, sweaty, and tired, we had flung ourselves down b en eath ___ that cast a
neat square o f shadow on the sun-bleached grass.
a) five huge cypress-trees
b) a tent
c) five little cypress-trees
d) the nearest porch
4. The soft sound o f the bells, and o f their mouths ripping and tearing at the undergrowth, had __
on me, and by the time they had drifted slowly past and the shepherd appeared I __
a) a harmful effect, felt ill
b) a soothing effect, was nearly asleep
c) a devastating effect, got even more exhausted
d) a restorative effect, was full o f energy
5 . __the curious peasant idea that all English people were lords.
a) The story-teller couldn't share
b) He rejected
c) He wanted to develop
d) By then the story-teller was used to
6. «While you sleep, their roots grow into your brains and steal them, and when you wake up you
a r e ___ .»
a) mad, head as empty as a whistle
b) as wise as an owl
c) as poor as a rat
d) as cool as a cucumber
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