her time ... work and sports. 11. The old people had lived side ... side ... thirty years, sharing every joy and sorrow (пе чаль). 12. When’s the train due ... Manchester?
VI. FiU In the blanks with articles or possessive pronouns if necessary
and retell the text.
In ... book devoted to ... great Russian poet Pushkin Tinyanov describes ... following incident which took place when ... future poet was quite ... little boy. ... Pushkins lived in St. Petersburg then. ... nurse Arina often took little Alexander out for ... walk along ... central streets of... city.
One cold winter day after dressing ... young master in ... warm clothes, Arina went out with him. She walked along, holding... boy by ... hand, and singing ... song about all ... things they passed on ... way. Arina was particularly clever at inventing ... most interesting songs about all ... ordinary things she came across.
‘‘Look at ... soldier,” she sang, "and the way he’s marc hing! What... fine cap he’s got on! When you grow up, you'll wear ... cap like that, too."
Some special preparations were evidently under way, for there were ... lot of soldiers in ... streets. Some of them spoke to Arina, trying to attract her attention, but she took no notice of them. ... nurse and ... child had reached ... main street, when Arina caught sight of something really interest ing, something worth singing about. So she started again. “Look, there’s ... general riding (to ride, rode, ridden ез дить верхом) ... whitehorse— general is small, his uniform is blue, his trousers are white. See how cross ... general looks!” Arina could not find ... proper ending to ... song ... general turned his horse and nearly rode over ... nurse and ... child. He looked at ... nurse with ... angry gray eyes.
“The cap,” he said in ... strange whisper and raised ... small hand. At that moment some other generals rode up to them.
“You fool, fall on your knees (колени)!" they cried impatiently: “Cap off, you fool!”
Only then did ... woman fall on her knees and pull ... fur cap off ... boy’s head. ... little general looked at ... child’s curly hair, burst out laughing and rode off.
At home little Alexander proudly declared that he had seen ... important general in ... street, and from ... more exact description given by ... nurse to ... group of ... eager listeners in ... kitchen, everybody guessed it was ... Emperor 1'етрэгэ] himself. ... news spread quickly in ... house, and
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