Read the following statements and see whether they are true or false. Correct the wrong statements.

1. One bright summer morning a well-dressed young man who looked like a gentleman, called to see a well-known dentist in Bond Street in London.

2. The young man was told that he would have to wait for half an hour.

3. The door of the dentistry was shut and the dentist couldn’t see what was going on in another room.

4. The young man was sitting quietly in the waiting-room.

5. The dentist saw the young man removing various silver ornaments and putting them into his pockets.

6. The doctor requested the young man to come into the dentistry and began to examine his teeth.

7. The young man said that he would come to the dentist the next time and left the house.

8. The young man was glad the doctor would extract his teeth without causing pain.

9. The young man was unconscious as he was given a powerful anesthetic.

10. The doctor searched his pockets and found the ornaments in them.

 

Text 3

Doctor Jones and His Patient

The telephone rang and doctor Jones took up the recei­ver. His patient’s servant asked him to come to their place. “I can do nothing with the old man,” he said and the doc­tor agreed to come at once.

He had thought much about his patient since his last visit and knew what the matter was. His patient, a rich old man, liked to buy things at high prices. In a short period of time he had spent very much money. His friends were afraid that he would soon be penniless, that’s why they wanted the doctor to do something to stop him.

The doctor was thinking about it when he entered his patient’s house that day.

“Good morning!” he greeted the old man. “How are you today? I want to tell you something.”

The old man who was sitting in an armchair turned to him.

“What is it? More medicine or some other idea?” he asked.

“Would you like to study art?” asked the doctor. “It will do your health much good.”

“Why should I? I don’t understand it,” the old man answered.

“It doesn’t matter. You must study it. I can get a stu­dent from an art school, who will come here once a week and give you lessons,” the doctor said.

His patient who wanted to be sound agreed.

A few days later the doctor found an art student who was glad to accept his offer. Five dollars a lesson was not bad at all. The next morning the lessons began.

The old man studied hard and often visited art exhibi­tions. He even stopped buying things at high prices. He decided to exhibit one of his own pictures. It was a very bad picture and the doctor could not understand why the exhibition had accepted it.

Some days passed. One morning the old man received a letter. “Read it to me,” he asked the doctor, “I am tired.”

“Your picture has received the first prize,” the doctor said. “Now, I believe, you like art more than anything else.”

“Oh, no! Art is nothing,” said the old man. “I’ve bought the exhibition.”

 

Answer the questions based on the text “Doctor Jones and His Patient”.

1. Why was Dr Jones asked to come to his patient’s place?

2. What was the old man’s problem?

3. Why were the old man’s friends afraid that he would soon be penniless?

4. What remedy did the doctor think of to prevent the old man from buying things at high prices?

5. Was the old man glad when the doctor advised him to study art?

6. Who was going to teach the old man to paint?

7. Why did the old man agree to take lessons?

8. Why was the student glad to teach the old man?

9. What was the old man’s attitude to the lessons?

10. Did he visit art exhibitions?

11. Did he stop buying things at high prices?

12. What couldn’t the doctor understand?

13. What did the old man receive one morning?

14. Why did the old man ask the doctor to read the letter to him?

15. What did the doctor read in the letter?

16. Why did the old man’s picture win the first prize?

Text 4

The Secret of a Long Life

I'm John Doe. I'm a journalist with an important magazine. The other day I saw a white-haired man sitting on the porch in front of his house. I could see the wrinkles on his face and neck, and his wrinkled hands. Articles on the secrets of living to an advanced age are always popular with our readers, so I decided to pursue this story and discover the secret of this man's long life. As I approached him, I said:

John: Sir, would it bother you if I talked with you for just a moment?

Man: Not at all. On the contrary, it would delight me. I get very bored sitting here, even for a short time. Until a little while ago I lived a full and active life without a moment's rest.

J: Well, they say that a lot of activity helps one to live a long time.

M: That's true, very true. I still feel very well, although my step slowed down a little.

The conversation continued in that vein for a while. Although I try to be very considerate about obtaining information from older people, it seemed to me that it would now be all right to begin to ask some discrete questions.

J: Would it bother you if I smoked a cigarette?

M: Not at all.

J: I'd offer you one, but I suppose you probably don't smoke, or drink, or...

M: On the contrary! I've always smoked my head off. And until a little while ago I went dancing every night. And as for alcoholic drinks...

J: Do you mean to say that you've done these things all your life?

M: Of course. Why does that surprise you so much?

J: I've always been told that doing those things is bad for the health.

M: Ridiculous!

J: I suppose that you have another secret... a lot of fruit... vegetables... a lot of exercise in the fresh air...

M: Don't be silly! I hate exercise in the fresh air, and I don't like any kind of vegetables.

J: This is incredible!

M: What do you mean, incredible? What are you talking about?

J: It's just that I can't understand how you've been able to live like that and to have lasted so long. Tell me, how old are you?

M: Me? I'm twenty-seven. Why?