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СТР. 38 УПРАЖНЕНИЕ №4 И 5

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Рабочую одежду из брезента делали еще в 18 веке. Похже стали оипользовать деним. Ткань окрашивали индиго - краской темно- синего цвета .Заклепки появились в 1873 году, а фирменная нашивка "Левайс" - в 1886

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little white kid gloves while she was talking. 'How CAN I have __4___ that?' she thought. 'I must be ____5____ small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself __6__ it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet __7____, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found __8__ that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it ___9____, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

'That WAS a ___10____ escape!' saidAlice, a good ___11__ frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in ____12____; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, __13___! the little door was shut again, and the little __14____ key was lying on the glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ___15__,' thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'

As she said these ___16___ her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in __17___ water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by ____18______,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with spades ____19______, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of __20___ which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

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a means of getting to the pantomime, Zoological Gardens and Madame Tussauds. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their father and mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bathroom with not and cold water, electric bells, French windows, a good deal of white paint, and every modern convenience, as the estate agents say. There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, mothers never have favourites, but if their mother had had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well.

Mother did not spend all her time paying dull calls to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay calls to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home lessons. Besides this, she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions, such as the refurnishing of the doll's house, or the time when they were getting over the mumps.

These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, a lovely nursery with heaps of toys and a Mother Goose wallpaper. They had a kind and merry nursemaid, and a dog who was called James, and who was their very own. They also had a father who was just perfect - never cross, never unjust, and always ready for a game - at least, if at any time he was not ready, he always had an excellent reason for it, and explained the reason to the children so interestingly and funnily that they felt sure he had to do it.

You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know how happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed.

The dreadful change came quite suddenly.

Peter had a birthday - his tenth. Among his presents was a model engine more perfect than you could ever have dreamed of. The other presents were full of charm, but the engine was fuller of charm than any of the others were.

Its charm lasted in its full perfection for exactly three days. Then, owing either to Peter's inexperience or Phyllis's good intention, or to some other cause, the engine suddenly went off with a bang. James was so fightened that he went out and did not come back all day. All the Noah's Ark people who were in the tender were broken to bits, but nothing else was hurt except the poor little engine and the feelings of Peter. The others said he cried over it- but of course boys of ten do not cry, however terrible the tragedies may be which darken their lot. He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold. This turned out to be true, though Peter did not know it was when he said it, the next day he had to go to bed and stay there.

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