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1.Eppie will decide to live with Silas because to her he is the best and also the only father.
2.No. he won’t.
3.She’ll be happier with Silas than with her real father because it’s Silas whom she knows and loves.
4.No,she won’t.
5.Yes,she will.She will live happily with Aeron, Silas and Dolly forever.
III.After reading.
Exercise 1.
1.They are talking about the woman that Silas found near his cottage on the New Year’s Eve.
2.They are telling about Godfrey after Dunstan was found with Silas’s money.
3.They are telling about the Casses on Eppie’s wedding.
4.They are telling about Dolly after her trying to persuade Silas to go to the church.
5.They are telling about Silas after he came into the rainbow to tell her about the robbery.
6.They are telling about Godfrey and Nancy Cass ( Nancy has just her child).
Exercise 2.
 _Is there anything related to my ring?.
 _My mother?.Did you know her?.Tell me!.Where is she now?.
 _On my God !.How could it happen to her?.
 _So, how could you get me ? 
 _ Are you my father ,dad?.
 _Do you know who my real father is ?.
 _ Not at all,dad.Because I had the best father already.
Exercise 3.
Nancy ‘s diary.
1.Difficult	2.happened	3.has
4.15 5.was	
Exercise 4.
Robbery at Raveloe.
 Two bags of gold has just been stolen from the floorboards of a small cottage in Raveloe. That belongs to a weaver named Silas Marner.The thief is still unknown.The most suspicious one is considerd to be the pedlar who has just visited our village recently.
Woman dead in snow.
On the New Year ‘s Eve, a woman was found dead in snow in Raveloe. Her name is unknown.She’s got a wedding ring on but noone know her husband.The two-year-old child , fortunately, is now safe and well. The local weaver who found the child has planned to adopt her.
Body found in quarry.
Yesterday when some working men were draining the Squire’s fields in Raveloe they found the body of a young man in the old quarry.They recognized it was Dunstan Cass , the disappeared brother of Squire Cass due to the watch in rings found on the body . They also found two bags of gold stolen from the weaver ‘s cottage sixteen years old.It’s clear that Dunstan Cass who disappeared for all these years was the thief.
Wedding at Raveloe.
Last week, Eppie, the weaver’s daughter was married to Aaron Winthdrop at church. Nancy Cas bought Eppie the wedding dress and the Squire paid for the wedding lunch at the rainbow.The young couple went to live with their father at their cottage.
My own opinion.
1.I don’t agree with her idea. So many people think that having money is happiness , but others don’t think that. It belongs to each person ‘s attitude and opinion. Money is the means of life .You can’t let our means poor . Moreover , in market economy , poverty is society’s burden. “ A cottage with two gold hearts ” is a fairy tale of last century. We are poor that is guilty to our country. 
2.I don’t totally agree with her. Sometimes we can’t do what our parents want because maybe they mistake and don’t really understand what we think .But all that they do and talk to us are from their love. Always remember that they love us and hope best things for us.
3.People can put right mistakes they have made.
Summary.
The story of Silas Marner took place at the beginning of the 19th century in an farming community in England. As the story opened , Silas was wrongly accused by his best friend of stealing money from the church. He lost all his faith in people. He sat in his cottage weaving all day and counting his money by night. The other villagers were very suspicious of him. He hardly spoke and never came to church or the village bar. However, Silas made good cloth and earned plenty of money. After some years he had two bags with full of gold which he hid under his floor. One night when he were
out, a worthless drunk, broke into Silas’s cottage and stole the gold. Silas’s life was even emptier than before.A few months later, a woman and her child are making their way to Raveloe on foot in the winter snow. The woman collapsed under a tree and dies. Her child, a girl of two, wandered into Silas’s cottage and fell asleep in front of the fire. The child, named Eppie, brought Silas back to life. Eppie is in fact the child of the Squire’s older son, Godfrey, brought Eppie to his the second wife, named Nancy. Godfrey and Nancy had no children of their own and adopted Eppie. But Eppie didn’t want riches . Silas’s love was beyond value for her.
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
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I.Before reading.
Exercise 1.
 1.F	4.F
 2.F	5.F	
 3.T	6.T
Exercise 2.
 1.Y	11.N
 2.Y	12.N
 3.N	13.N
 4.Y	14.P
 5.Y	15.N
 6.Y	16.N
 7.Y	17.N
 8.Y	18.Y	
 9.P	19.P
 10.P	20.N
Exercise 3.
clothes, toothbrushes, whisky, eggs, a map, a radio, knife, mineral water.
Exercise 4.
Good things : Being relaxed, close to nature, close to friends.
 Bad things : Dangerous.
II.While reading.
Read chapters 1 to 3.
 1.T
 2.F
Harris wanted to go to the sea.
 3.F
Montmorency didn’t like.
 4.T
 5.T
 6.F
The friends decided to sleep in hotels when it rained.
 7.T
 8.F
George said that a tent was more difficult than a cover over the boat.
Chapters 4 to 6.
 1.J	5.Mrs Poppets	
 2.Harris	6.George
 3.George	7.Harris
 4.Montmorency	8.Harris
Chapters 7 to 8.
 1.Harris and J didn’t visit the church at Hamton.
 2.Harris thought that George was lazy.
 3.Harris thought that water made people ill.
 4.Harris fell into the basket.
 5.Harris ‘s cap fell into the river.
 6.They met George at Weybridge lock.
 7.The lock-keeper seemed annoyed noone had fallen in.
 8.George pulled the boat to Penton Hook.
Chapters 9 to 10.
 4 - 10 - 5 – 2 – 7 – 11 – 1 – 9 – 6 – 3 – 8 
Chapters 11 to 12.
 1.Because there was no roses round the door.
 2.Because they had lost the tin opener.
 3.Because the friends had knocked them from their seats.
 4.Because he feared the cat.
 5.Because he had been sitting in the adge of the hole.
Chapters 13 to 15.
 1.What did George and J decide to do often supper?.
 2.How many islands were there in the river?.
 3.Why did George want to find a policeman and hit him.
 4.How many swans did Harris fight?.
 5.What did Harris do with the whisky?.
 6.What happened to their clothes when they washed them?.
 7.Why people said that they had caught the fish in the glass case ?.
 8.Why did George start to brush his trousers in the lock?.
Before reading chapter 16.
 1.a.It starts to rain.
 2.b.The friends leave the boat and go home by train.
III.After reading.
Exercise 1.
– 2.And – 14 – 4.Because – 8 – 10.Because – 1 – 3.But – 6 – 12.That – 15– 5.But – 9 – 16.That – 13 – 11.And
Exercise 2.
 1.for	2.do	3.need
4.against	5.thought	6.eat
7.of	8.on	9.towed
10.had	11.saw	12.thought	
13.by	14.in	15.at
16.frightened	17.after	18.at	
19.on	20.on	21.harm
22.keep	23.had	24.with	
25.try	26.to	27.had
Exercise 3.
1.Harris – his stories – don’t – know how to get out of it – they began to follow him – wished they had never met him – at cooking – he failed – he had failed – he had fighted against 32 swans.
2.George – late – being waked – all the bits of food they had left over – but he fell down and they found that it was not a real fish.
3.J – at packing – he forgot to put the boot in and whether he had packed his toothbrush or not, so he had to pack many times – splash some water over himself – the branch broke and he fell in the river – George laughed a lot – it was George ‘s shirt.
Exercise 4.
 Page 1 – A visit to the library.
 Page 5 – The dangers of a sea trip. 
 Page 7 – Sleeping in a tent.
 Page 12 – Uncle Pidger and the picture.
 Page 22 – lost in the maze.
 Page 30 – Aunt Mary is lost.
 Page 31 – How girls tow a boat.
 Page 38 – Two men in one bed.
 Page 40 – When George got up early.
 Page 48 – No room in Dachet.
 Page 74 – The photograph.
 Page 78 – Hiring a boat.
 Exercise 5.
 Scene 1 : 5 – 16 – 13 – 1 – 7 – 9 – 11 – 13.
 Scene 2 : 10 – 2 – 4 – 15 – 6 – 12 – 14 – 8.
Exercise 6.
 Ex: “I knew that it was my heart because I had all the symtoms of a bad heart.The main symtom was that I didn’t want to work”.
=> The truth : J is lazy and he wants to make up a reason for his laziness.
 Ex: “I think that I am very good at packing. It is one of the things I do best, so I told the others that I would organize it”.
=>The truth : J didn’t want to pack and also didn’t know how to pack indeed. He just wanted to tell Harris and George what to do and then sit and watch them do it.
 Ex: “He said he was very good at doing eggs. People who had eaten his eggs never wanted any other food afterwards”.
=>The truth: He couldn’t cook well. He burnt himself, dropped everything waved his hands and shouted.
 Ex: “They told me he was in the river. I said I’d catch him and I did. You don;t see many fish as big as that one now”.
=>The truth: He told lies, it was not a real fish. 
Summary.
George, Harris, Jerome( J’ ) and Montmorency were spending an evening in J's room, smoking and discussing various illnesses they fancied they were suffering from and really needed a holiday. Three men eventually decided on a boating trip up the Thames.The next Saturday, they embarked George had to go into work that morning (George went to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they woke him up and put him outside at two) so J. and Harris make their way to Kingston by train. Unable to find the correct train at Waterloo Station, they resorted to bribing a train driver to take his train to Kingston where they collected their hired boat and started upon their journey. They met George later in the day at Weybridge.The remainder of the story relates their leisurely journey up the river and the incidents that occured . The book's original purpose was apparent as the describes the many landmarks and villages they travelled to such as Hampton Court Palace, Monkey Island, Magna Carta Island and Marlow.