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Cars burn petrol, factories burn coal and emit toxic fumes. The pollution is gathered in clouds that the winds carry far away. When it rains pollution lands on everything that surrounds us. This is called acid rain. Acid rain also gets into lakes, rivers, seas, and soil and pollutes everything causing serious damage. Fortunately, the governments have been trying to reduce the air pollution using new technologies. But we have to do more! but we need to do more. We can help reduce the amount of acid rain by using ours cars less or by using solar power to heat our homes.
Автомобили сжигают топливо, заводы - уголь и выбрасывают токсичный дым. Загрязнение собрано в облаках, которые несет ветер далеко. Когда идет дождь, загрязнение садится на все, что окружает нас. Это называется кислотным дождем. Кислотный дождь также попадает в озера, реки и моря, почву и загрязняет все вокруг, нанося серьезный вред. К счастью, правительство пытается уменьшить загрязнение воздуха, используя новые технологии. Но мы должны сделать больше. Мы можем меньше использовать автомобили и можем использовать солнечную энергию для обогрева домов.
I moved through the big rooms and wide halls of my house. I was looking for a book of poems I had put somewhere. I opened the door of the dining-room and went in. It was dark and I turned on the lights and cried out.
A man stood in front of me. In his hand was a gun.
I was very muсh surprised and asked what he wanted.
He answered ironically that he was a robber and he hadn`t expected to find me in. He asked me to show him the way out.
I said that I would cry for help.
He answered slowly that he would kill me then.
I asked him to stay a few minutes and talk.
The robber told me that he had done his best, but there was no work for him. He used to be an honest man before he had started looking for a job.
I took my seat at the table and placed him on the other side of it.
I saw him look about the room, then he put the gun on the corner of the table between us. But he was in a strange house and did not know that under the table, near my foot, was an electric bell.
The robber explained that he wasn`t a robber and he hadn`t come there to steal. He had had a little mine once, and old Setliffe had taken it away from him. So, he had had nothing left. And as his friend needed money badly he had just come to take something back from my father. He was really taking what was his.
He added that what is right is not always legal. That's why he had to go.
I suddenly took up the gun. At the same time I pushed the bell with my foot. My servant Thomas came in and I asked him to call the police.
But the robber hadn`t even turned his head.
The servant left the room. And I already saw the newspapers with the story of the beautiful young Mrs Setliffe who had caught a dangerous robber in her own house.
I said that I hadn't believed a single word of his story.
He didn`t answer.
But soon he said that he was going to walk out of the door. He was sure that I was not going to shoot. It isn't easy to kill a man and he was sure I couldn't do it.
He stood up slowly. And I began to pull the trigger.
At the door the man turned round. He spoke to me in a low voice as he had called me a bad name.
Ваша концовка :
Suddenly, I heard the sound of the police cars … But I couldn`t even move. I didn`t pull the trigger.
The man opened the front door and closed it slowly behind him.
(Я услышала звук полицейских машин … Но не смогла даже сдвинуться с места. Я не нажала на курок. А мужчина открыл входную дверь и медленно закрыл ее за собой.)
Cars burn petrol, factories burn coal and emit toxic fumes. The pollution is gathered in clouds that the winds carry far away. When it rains pollution lands on everything that surrounds us. This is called acid rain. Acid rain also gets into lakes, rivers, seas, and soil and pollutes everything causing serious damage. Fortunately, the governments have been trying to reduce the air pollution using new technologies. But we have to do more! but we need to do more. We can help reduce the amount of acid rain by using ours cars less or by using solar power to heat our homes.
Автомобили сжигают топливо, заводы - уголь и выбрасывают токсичный дым. Загрязнение собрано в облаках, которые несет ветер далеко. Когда идет дождь, загрязнение садится на все, что окружает нас. Это называется кислотным дождем. Кислотный дождь также попадает в озера, реки и моря, почву и загрязняет все вокруг, нанося серьезный вред. К счастью, правительство пытается уменьшить загрязнение воздуха, используя новые технологии. Но мы должны сделать больше. Мы можем меньше использовать автомобили и можем использовать солнечную энергию для обогрева домов.
I moved through the big rooms and wide halls of my house. I was looking for a book of poems I had put somewhere. I opened the door of the dining-room and went in. It was dark and I turned on the lights and cried out.
A man stood in front of me. In his hand was a gun.
I was very muсh surprised and asked what he wanted.
He answered ironically that he was a robber and he hadn`t expected to find me in. He asked me to show him the way out.
I said that I would cry for help.
He answered slowly that he would kill me then.
I asked him to stay a few minutes and talk.
The robber told me that he had done his best, but there was no work for him. He used to be an honest man before he had started looking for a job.
I took my seat at the table and placed him on the other side of it.
I saw him look about the room, then he put the gun on the corner of the table between us. But he was in a strange house and did not know that under the table, near my foot, was an electric bell.
The robber explained that he wasn`t a robber and he hadn`t come there to steal. He had had a little mine once, and old Setliffe had taken it away from him. So, he had had nothing left. And as his friend needed money badly he had just come to take something back from my father. He was really taking what was his.
He added that what is right is not always legal. That's why he had to go.
I suddenly took up the gun. At the same time I pushed the bell with my foot. My servant Thomas came in and I asked him to call the police.
But the robber hadn`t even turned his head.
The servant left the room. And I already saw the newspapers with the story of the beautiful young Mrs Setliffe who had caught a dangerous robber in her own house.
I said that I hadn't believed a single word of his story.
He didn`t answer.
But soon he said that he was going to walk out of the door. He was sure that I was not going to shoot. It isn't easy to kill a man and he was sure I couldn't do it.
He stood up slowly. And I began to pull the trigger.
At the door the man turned round. He spoke to me in a low voice as he had called me a bad name.
Ваша концовка :
Suddenly, I heard the sound of the police cars … But I couldn`t even move. I didn`t pull the trigger.
The man opened the front door and closed it slowly behind him.
(Я услышала звук полицейских машин … Но не смогла даже сдвинуться с места. Я не нажала на курок. А мужчина открыл входную дверь и медленно закрыл ее за собой.)