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English character
1. One of the most striking features of English life is the self-discipline and people courtesy of all classes. There is little noisy behaviour and practically no loud disputing in the street. People do not rush excitedly for seats in buses or trains but take their seats in queues [kju:z] at bus stops in a quiet and orderly manner.
2. Englishmen are naturally polite and are never tired saying “Thank you” or “Thanks”, “I’m sorry”, “ Beg your pardon”. If you follow anyone who is entering a building or a room, he’ll hold a door open for you. Many foreigners have commented on a remarkable politeness of the English people.
3. English people don’t like displaying their emotions even in dangerous and tragic situations, and ordinary people seem to remain good-tempered and cheerful under difficulties.
4. The Englishman doesn’t like any boasting or showing off in manners, dress or speech. Sometimes he conceals his knowledge: a linguist, for example, may not mention his understanding of a foreigner’s language.
5. The Englishman prefers his own house to an apartment in a block of flats because he doesn’t wish his doing to be overlooked by his neighbours and they often say “An Englishman’s house is his castle”. Many Englishmen help their wives at home in many ways: they clean the windows on Saturday afternoon and often wash up the dishes after supper in the evening.
6. Sunday is a very quiet day in London. All the shops are closed and so are the theatres and most of the cinemas. Londoners like to get out of town on Sundays. The sea is not far – only 50 or 60 miles away and people like to go down to the sea in summer or somewhere to the country for skiing in winter.




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What do Londoners like to do on Sunday?
1. Londoners like to go shopping on Sundays.
2. Londoners prefer to go to the theatres or cinemas on Sundays.
3. Londoners like to go down to the sea ot somewhere to the country on Sundays.

On Saturday nights they are allowed, within reason,
their freedom. This means alcohol. The Combe Abbey rules
about alcohol are perfectly clear: never before the sixth form
and, if every term a shcoolboy’s stomach or two has to be pumped,
there is no need to discuss it. On returning from dinner out
(never just drinking) on a Saturday night, Combe pupils
must report to their housemaster. Why the housemasters
never notice that everyone is completely drunk is a mystery.
It has happened to Marina twice already; she remembers
nothing at all of the first time, and the second she insisted
on walking in a straight line and broke a chair leg. There
are always awful stories: paralytic staggerings into the arms
of the headmaster’s wife, vomit in the Chapel. Today
is the birthday of Selina Knocker, the sweet but stupid child
of the head of the navy who is, physically at least, in Marina’s
classes. This must be why Marina is invited.
She is wearing contact lenses. Dust and drizzle and her
own fringe keep blowing into her eyes as she walks along the
dark East Combe Road, next to Selina’s cousin Gypsy. No
one brings coats, let alone their great-aunt’s umbrella from
Fenwick’s, so Marina’s teeth are chattering, which she is
trying to disguise with conversation. Because this part of
Dorset is so very flat and ringed by hillsides, she often has
a feeling of being cut off from the rest of England, as if
they are walking at the bottom of a meteor hole.
Gypsy, Jippo, is unfriendly but very beautiful, with long
brown legs and big blinky blue eyes. Apparently she has just
been skiing and seduced an instructor. Marina is struggling
to find common ground.
‘Where are we going?’ she asks, after an awkward silence
through which Jippo sails, serene. ‘I mean, I know the name,
but I haven’t . . . is it a, a smart restaurant? I mean—’
‘Just Capote’s.’
‘Oh. Thanks.’

Abbey rules

about alcohol are perfectly clear: never before the sixth form

and, if every term a shcoolboy’s stomach or two has to be pumped,

there is no need to discuss it. On returning from dinner out

(never just drinking) on a Saturday night, Combe pupils

must report to their housemaster. Why the housemasters

never notice that everyone is completely drunk is a mystery.

It has happened to Marina twice already; she remembers

nothing at all of the first time, and the second she insisted

on walking in a straight line and broke a chair leg. There

are always awful stories: paralytic staggerings into the arms

of the headmaster’s wife, vomit in the Chapel. Today

is the birthday of Selina Knocker, the sweet but stupid child

of the head of the navy who is, physically at least, in Marina’s

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In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card starting that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn’t send them $0.00 by return of post. He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they’d take care of it.

However he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.

The next month, giving in, he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.

A week later, the man’s bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail.

The bank could not process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because the check for $0.00 had caused the computer to crash.

Finally the man, who had wanted to buy his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.

The man, who had wanted to buy his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead. A week later, the man’s bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a check for $1000000.00. In April 23rd the man received another bill and threw that one away too. The bank could process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because company had bought a new computer. The following month the credit card company sent the man a very pleasant note stating they were going to pay him $1000000.00.

the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail.

The $0.00 check had caused company’s check processing software to fail.

B. 1

a) True

b) False

c) Not stated

B. 2

a) False

b) Not stated

c) True

B. 3

a) False

b) True

c) Not stated

B. 4

a) Not stated

b) False

c) True

B. 5

a) True

b) Not stated

c) False

B. 6

a) Not stated

b) True

c) False