Exercise 9. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

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10. it was great fun

11. So we all felt awfully repaid[rɪ'peɪd] for all that we had done

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Exercise 9. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

1. How many brothers and sisters did Stephen Leacock have?

2. What brought S. Leacock world fame?

3. What holiday did the family decide to celebrate?

4. All the family decided to stay away from work and classes, didn’t they?

5. What did they decide to decorate the house with?

6. Why didn’t they buy a new hat for the mother?

7. What did the father decide to do on the very morning of the day?

8. Did the family want to let the father stay at home?

9. Why couldn’t Anne and Mary stay at home?

10. What was the weather like?

11. What was the father afraid of?

12. How did the family spend their time in the country?

13. Did they come back early or late?

14. What did the mother have to do during the meal?

15. Why didn’t the mother let anybody wash the dishes?

Exercise 10. Choose the right variant to complete the sentence.

1. We decided …

a) to have a party on Mother’s Day;

b) to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day;

c) to have a picnic in the country.

2. Father had bought …

a) new hats for the girls;

b) new ties for himself and a new hat for Mother;

c) new ties for himself and us boys.

3. When the car came to the door, we saw that …

a) it was a very big car;

b) there was room in it for us all;

c) there was no room in it for us all.

4. Mother is hardly ever able to go to the country because …

d) she is nearly always busy in the house;

e) she is busy in the garden nearly all the time;

f) she doesn’t like to go to the country.

5. Will and I fished too …

a) and caught a lot of fish;

b) and met a lot of people;

c) but were not so lucky.

6. When we all kissed Mother before we went to bed …

a) we were happy that the dinner was over;

b) we went to wash the dishes;

c) she said it had been the most wonderful day in her life.

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