Zahiriddin muhammad bobur nomidagi andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili grammatikasi kafedrasi

Activity 3. Choose the best summary of the extract.
1 This describes what happened to Cat and her sisters when they were young.
2 This describes an important event in Cat's childhood when her mother left her and her two sisters to go and live with another man.
3 This describes the day that Cat's mother was in a hurry to leave and get in a taxi with a man who lived in St John's Wood. She was wearing Chanel No. 5 perfume and the girls were crying when she left. Cat was in shock so she didn't cry.
Practising your reading skills
Activity 4. Read the statements and tick true (T). false (F) or not enough information (NEI).

Activity 5. Sometimes when reading a novel, you have to infer (or guess based on the information given) things that the novelist might not state explicitly. Read these sentences and answer the questions that follow.
1. 'One of Cat's sisters was crying - maybe even both of them. But that wasn't the concern of Cat's mother.'
a. Why are the girls crying?
b. Do you think Cat's mother is a good mother? Why/Why not?
2. 'a rather ordinary-looking man, hardly worth all this fuss'
a. Who is the man in the taxi?
b. What's the 'fuss' that Cat is referring to?
3. 'there was a man who loved her, and who no doubt made her feel good about herself, and who surely made her feel as though there was an un-ruined life out there for her somewhere'
a. What can we infer about her mother's character from this?
b. What do you think Cat's mother's hopes are for the future?
c. What can we infer about how Cat's mother feels about her life with her daughters?
Activity 6. Rewrite the underlined sections of the following sentences using one of the idioms or phrases from the text.
not be the concern of somebody (lines 8-9)
head for something (line 14)
be frozen with shock (line 16)
in charge (line 21)
be worth the fuss (lines 24-25)
1. When I saw who was at the door, I was so surprised that I couldn't move.
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2. I know it looks beautiful, but it took me hours - I don't think it justified all the work.
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3. When their mother went out, she left her eldest daughter to supervise.
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4. He was going towards the station.
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5. The animal howled out in pain, but Harry didn't care
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