Mr. Hopkinson was Mr. Fеrraro’s …
(*ответ*) confidential secretary
distant relation
childhood friend
major-domo
Mr. Thomas had mud on his shoes and he stopped to scrape them on the pavement’s edge because …
(*ответ*) he didn’t want to soil his house
he tried to gain time not to go home
he was possessed by cleanness
it was his only pair of shoes
Mr. Thomas had once been a …
(*ответ*) builder and decorator
carpenter
banker
seaman and fisherman
Mr. Thomas kept his savings in …
(*ответ*) the mattress
the cupboard
the bedside table
the desk
Mr. Thomas lived … in his crippled house:
(*ответ*) alone
with his old parents
with his wife and two sons
with his wife
Mr. Thomas spent in the loo …
(*ответ*) one night
two hours
two days
the whole day
Mr. Thomas was suffering from …
(*ответ*) rheumatics
heart attack
heart-ache
single pneumonia
Mr. Thomas … plumbing:
(*ответ*) had never learnt
was not very good at
managed to learn
was very good at
Mr. Thomas’ horoscope warned him about …
(*ответ*) danger of serions crash
danger of death
dangers of a journey
dangers of smoking
Needle came to London …
(*ответ*) to see life, for it was her ambition to write about life
to visit her parents and stay with them
to take care of her distant relation who promised to mention her in his will
to meet her old friends, because she missed them very much
Needle compared Kathleen with the poet Swinburne when Kathleen …
(*ответ*) stopped and looked into all the prams which the mothers had left outside shops or area gates
let her read her diary
showed her letters to George in which she had versed her love
read Needle her verses she had written during the war
Needle got her nickname, because …
(*ответ*) she found a needle in the haystack
her family had a needle-shop
she dreamt of being a dressmaker
she liked to sew and embroider
Needle got up speeches about … for industrial tycoons.
(*ответ*) literature, art and life
international events and formal events
hard and soft currency
international bargains
Needle met Kathleen and George in the Portobello Road … years later after her death:
(*ответ*) five
fifteen
ten
three
Needle returned to England with …
(*ответ*) Skinny’s party just before the war
Skinny and George after the war
Matilda during the war
George’s family after the war
Needle taught in … school in Kensington:
(*ответ*) private
technical
free
national