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Alice in Wonderland (8 Form)
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1. The rabbit-hole was like a tunnel in the beginning and then became very narrow and went suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice did not have a moment to think about stopping herself before she started falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she was falling very slowly because she had a lot of time of time as she went down, to look around her and to wonder what was going to happen next.
2. First, she tried to look down to see what everything looked like, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well. She saw that they had a lot of opened lockers and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures on the walls of the well. She took a cup from one of lockers as she passed; it was written `ORANGE JAM', but it was empty. She did not want to throw the cup, as she was afraid of killing somebody, so she looked for an open space and she put it back in another locker as she went down past it.
3. Then she got bored as there was nothing else to do, so Alice started thinking of her cat, her sister, her life, her house… “ I wonder how many kilometres are between me and my sister now” she was thinking. Alice was a very good student and she knew a lot of things from her lessons in the classroom. For the rest of the way she thought only of her sister and her family, how worried they should be now!
4. She felt that she was very sleepy, and she started to dream that she was walking hand in hand with her sister and her cat, when suddenly, thump! thump! She woke up: she was sitting on sand and dry leaves, and the fall was finished.
A.Read the text and number the paragraph headings in the correct order:
a) Thinking of her cat and sister ()
b) Looking around with curiosity ()
c) The beginning of the fall ()
d) The end of the fall ()
B. Write (T) if the statement is true and (F) if the statement is false.
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a) Alice was falling down a well. ()
b) Alice did not put the cup back into the locker. ()
c) Alice was a bad student. ()
d) Her sister and cat were always in her thoughts. ()
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C. Write short answers to the following questions.
a) Where was Alice? ___________________________________________
b) How was she falling? __________________________________________
c) What did Alice see on the walls of the well? ________________________
d) How was the cup she took from the locker? ________________________
e) Where did Alice learn a lot of things? _____________________________
f) Did Alice fall asleep at the end of this story? _______________________
D) How do you think we should treat naughty children and why?
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Text 1 Jump to History of Popcorn:
Popcorn, also known as popping corn, is a special variety of corn (Zea mays everta). Each kernel contains a tiny drop of water. When it is heated, the water expands causing the kernel to explode and flip inside out. Most US popcorn is grown in Nebraska and Indiana, and increasingly in Texas.
Native Americans first discovered popcorn thousands of years ago in Guatemala or Mexico. It was popped in China during the Song Dynasty (960-279) as well as in Sumatra and India long before Columbus reached the Americas. In 1948 and 1950, anthropologist Herbert Dick and botanist Earle Smith discovered ears of popcorn in the Bat Cave of west central New Mexico. The ears measured from smaller than a penny to about 2 inches. They were carbon dated to be about 5, 600 years old.
In 1519 when he invaded Mexico, Hernando Cortes first saw popcorn when he met the Aztecs. Popcorn was important to the Aztecs as food, as decoration for ceremonial headdresses and necklaces, and as ornaments on statues of their gods. Around 1612, French explorers around the Great Lakes met Iroquois who used heated sand in a pottery vessel to make popcorn.
There is an unproven theory that an Indian named Quadequina brought a deerskin bag of popped corn for first Thanksgiving feast on October 15, 1621.
Colonial housewives served popcorn with sugar and cream for breakfast. Some colonists used a cylinder of thin sheet-iron that revolved on an axle in front of the fireplace to make popped corn.
In 1885, Charles Cretors of Chicago, Illinois, invented the first popcorn machine. Street vendors were soon pushing steam or gas-powered poppers through fairs, parks, and expositions. Today much of the popcorn you buy at movies and fairs is popped in machines manufactured by the Cretors family. In 1914, in Sioux City, Iowa, Cloid H. Smith created America's first branded popcorn (Jolly Time), and for the first time, popcorn was available in grocery stores.
Americans eat more than 17 billion quarts of popcorn a year, an average of 60 quarts per person per year. As the result of an elementary school project, popcorn became the official state snack food of Illinois. January 19 is National Popcorn Day, and October is National Popcorn Month.