Getting to Know Hemingway.
Put the following paragraphs in the correct order.
After reading
Say how the following items are connected with the life of E. Hemingway:
1) a suburb of Chicago;
2) to be keen on sport;
3) an ambulance driver;
4) striving to become a writer
5) war as a murderous butchery;
6) to spend time travelling;
7) to be awarded;
8) to commit suicide.
Comment on and preserve the literary translation of the epitaph inscribed on Hemingway’s memorial.
Best of all he loved the fall,
the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods,
Leaves floating on the trout streams.
And above the hills
The high blue windless skies.
Now he will be a part of them forever.
For questions 1-12 choose the correct answer( a, b, c or d)
This text is an extract from “The Snow of Kilimanjaro” (1936) that tells us about an American writer, Harry, whose intentions did not come true.
He remembered long ago____(1) Williamson, the bombing officer, had been___(2) by a stick bomb some one in a German patrol had ___(3) as he was coming in through the wire that night and, screaming, had ___(4) every one to kill him. He was a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, ___(5) addicted to fantastic shows. But that night he was ___(6) in the wire, with a flare lighting him up and his bowels spilled ___(7) into the wire, so when they brought him in, ___(8), they had to cut him loose. Shoot me, Harry. For Christ ___(9) shoot me.. They had had an argument one time about our lord never ___(10) you anything you could not ___(11) and so one’s theory had been that meant that at a ___(12) time the pain passé you out automatically. But he had always remembered Williamson, that night. Nothing passed Williamson until he gave him all his morphine tablets that he had always saved to use himself and then they did not work right away.
1) A) as B) while c) when d) then
2) A) hit b) struck c)knocked d)beat
3) A) tossed b) pitched c) projected d) thrown
4) A) begged b) asked c) proposed d) inquired
5) A) then b) although c) furthermore d) moreover
6) A) grasped b) seized c) caught d) overtaken
7) A) of b) out c) up d) in
8) A) lively b) active c) alive d) brisk
9) A) a favour b) proposition 3) sake d) bet
10) A) transmitting b) delegating c) dispatching d) sending
11) A) carry b) bear c) support d) suffer
12) A) certain b) sure c) reliable d) indisputable