Reading.
Two men were travelling together through a wood, when a bear suddenly met them on their way. One of them, who happened to be in front, climbed quickly up a tree and hid himself in the branches. The other, seeing no help for him and scared that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, with his face in the dust. And when the bear came up and started smelling him all over, the man held his breath as if he was dead.
The bear soon left him, for as we know, this animal will not touch a dead body. When it was quite gone, the other traveler got down from the tree, and as a joke asked his friend what the bear had whispered in his ear. «He gave me this advice», his companion said. «Never travel with a friend who leaves you alone with danger».
The moral of the story is: problems test if the friends are real.
1. Choose the correct title for the text.
А) Unlucky Hunting; Б) A Good Friend;
В) The Bear and the Two Travelers; Г) Two Real Friends and the Bear.
2. Put the sentences into the correct order.
a) The bear went away.
b) The travelers met a bear.
c) The other one pretended to be dead.
d) The first traveler asked his friend what the bear had told him.
e) One of them climbed up a tree.
А) 1 – e, 2 – b, 3 – c, 4 – a, 5 – d; Б) 1 - b, 2 – e, 3 – d, 4 – a, 5 – c;
В) 1 - b, 2 – e, 3 – c, 4 – a, 5 – d; Г) 1 - b, 2 – e, 3 – c, 4 – d, 5 – a.
3. Choose the correct variant to complete the sentence.
From the text we know … .
А) where the men were travelling to; Б) what the weather was like;
В) what animal they met; Г) that a bear is not a dangerous animal.
4.Complete the sentence.
The travelers in the story … .
А) are real friends; Б) pretended to be dead;
В) climbed quickly up a tree; Г) were both afraid of bears.
5. The bear … .
А) attacked the man; Б) examined the man all over;
В) fell flat on the ground; Г) played dead.
II. Grammar.