The following passages are the beginnings of five famous books for children written by English and American authors. Read the passages and do TASKS 3, 4, and 5 If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane, all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross- at side, scratch his head thoughtfully, and then he will roads. He will push his helmet slightly to one point his huge white-gloved finger and say: First to your right, second to your left, sharp right again, and you're there. Good-morning And sure enough, if you follow his directions exactly, you will be there - right in the middle of Cherry-Tree Lane, where the houses run down one side and the Park runs down the other and the cherry-trees go dancing right down the middle. If you are looking for Number Seventeen - and it is more than likely that you will be, for this book is all about that particular house - you will very soon find it. To begin with, it is the smallest house in the Lane. And besides that, it is the only one that is rather dilapidated and needs a of paint. But Mr. Banks, who owns it, said to Mrs. Banks that she could have either a nice, coat clean, comfortable house or four children. But not both, for he couldn't afford it. Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious. because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, a beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a SO small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. B Alice was beginning to get very tired of siting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no it pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel inl be very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. D 1 Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build S four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a 9 litle bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar - except a small hole dug in the a ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds a arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. It was seven o`clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke O in from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. 'Augrh! said Father Wolf. 'It is time to hunt again.' He was going to spring downhill when a little to. a shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world TASK 3 Match the passages to their authors A-G. There are two extra names which you will not need. 16 Passage A 17 Passage B 18 Passage C 19 Passage D 20 Passage E Lyman Frank Baum A B Rudyard Kipling C Jack London Joanne Rowling D E John Ronald Tolkien FPamela Travers G Lewis Carroll TASK 4 In which passage from A-E .. Of 21 the interior of the main character's house is described? 22 it is implied that the characters adore their child? 23 the time when the story begins is mentioned? 24 the way to the main characters' house is explained? 25 the main character is bored? 26 it is implied that the family is well-off? 27 two siblings are mentioned? 28 the main character meets someone on his way? 2 the appearance of the characters is described? 30 a dangerous weather phenomenon is mentioned? TASK 5 Write out five words from passages A-E which mean 31 not having much muscle or fat 32 a string of flowers tied together to wear around the neck or head of a 33 old and in very bad condition 34 alarge hole in the side of a hill or cliff or under the ground 35 flat, wide area of land without many trees and covered with grass