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04.01.2021 22:56 •  Английский язык

нужно через 10 минут
Read the paragraphs A -G which are adapted from a famous novel set in 1920s England.
Put the pararaphs in the correct order.There is one example.
1 E 2 3 4 5 6 7
The Village School
A
Over the months, this tiny Infants’ Room with its friendships, fights and warm atmosphere was a second home for Laurie. He would play, break things, laugh, cry, fall asleep and make cheeky jokes about the teacher. He gradually learned how to get along with other people, people who were not from his family.
B
Laurie soon started to feel more comfortable at school. The Infant Room was full of toys he had never seen: dolls, soldiers, animals, coloured wooden shapes, model men to paint. He grew as tough as the other children. When another child stole the food his mother had given him for lunch, he would not hesitate to steal someone else’s apple.

C
This happy period of play and fun did not last forever. The first big change was when it was decided his brother Jack, who was with Laurie in Infants, was too clever to stay there anymore. Jack was so bright that he would make the rest of the children uncomfortable by studying quietly and asking the teacher to bring him another book.

D
Laurie was a natural infant, happy to do nothing, to sit doing nothing but dream, to cut out men from paper or draw pictures in a book. But his time, too, was coming to an end. Suddenly he found he was able to count to a hundred, he could write his name in large and small letters and he could take one number away from another. Then the call came for him. Infant no longer, Laurie was moved up. He was ready for the Big Room.
E
The village to which the family had come was a collection of twenty or thirty houses on the side of a hill. The rural school where Laurie would in time go to study, was a small, narrow, stone building that was divided into two classrooms by a thin, wooden wall. Small children would enter through the door marked ‘Infants’ . Gradually they would move through the school and emerge a few years later with all the education most of them would need.

F
Laurie spent the rest of the day, sitting at a desk, making holes in paper. When he got home, his mother asked him about his first day. He replied angrily, “They never gave me my present.” Laurie’s mother replied that she was surprised that someone had promised him a present. " Y es, they did” Laurie continued. "They said, ‘S it here for the present,’ but no one gave me one.” He felt humiliated when his and sisters laughed at his confusion between two meanings of ‘present’ .

G
The morning came one day when Laurie’s sisters said it was the day for him to start school. He told them he wasn’t going but they ignored his protests and they carried him kicking and screaming to the playground. He arrived at school and everyone immediately crowded round this new victim. The other kids pushed him around and pulled at him and everyone was laughing and shouting. Laurie was rescued by the sixteen-year-old teacher’s helper who took him into the classroom and dried his eyes.