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In a Small Town
Toscanini was a great musician. He lived in America. One day he came to a very little town. He was walking along the street when he saw a piece of paper in one of the windows. He read:
MRS.SMITH.MUSIC LESSONS.
TWO DOLLARS A LESSON.
Then Toscanini heard the music. Somebody was playing Tchaikovsky.
“Mrs. Smith is playing,” he thought, “she isn’t a very good musician. She doesn’t play Tchaikovsky well. I must show her how to play it.”
He went up to the door of the house and rang. The music stopped and soon a woman opened the door.
“Are you Mrs. Smith?” asked Toscanini. “My name is Toscanini and I want to show you how to play Tchaikovsky.”
Mrs. Smith was very glad to meet the great musician. She asked him to come in. Toscanini played Tchaikovsky for her and went away.
A year later Toscanini visited the same town again. When he went up to the house where he had played Tchaikovsky the year before he again saw a piece of paper. Now it read.
MRS.SMITH. (TOSCANINI’S PUPIL)
MUSIC LESSONS.
FOUR DOLLARS A LESSON.
1. Put “+” if the sentence is right and “-“if it is wrong.
1. Toscanini came to a very little town.
2. He liked how Mrs. Smith was playing.
3. He wanted to play the piano for her.
4. Tchaikovsky visited Mrs. Smith one day.
5. Mrs. Smith was a teacher of music.
2. Write the sentences in the right order.
1. Mrs. Smith was very glad to meet the great musician.
2. He lived in America.
3. The music stopped and soon a woman opened the door.
4. The music stopped and soon a woman opened the door.
5. “Mrs. Smith is playing,” he thought, “she isn’t a very good musician.
3. Answer the questions.
1. Where did Toscanini live?
2. Toscanini was a great musician, wasn’t he?
3. Did he want to show Mrs. Smith how to play?
4. What did he see in one of the window?
5. Did he think that Mrs. Smith was playing well?
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outside london, oliver, starved and exhausted, meets jack dawkins, a boy his own age. jack offers him shelter in the london house of his benefactor, fagin. it turns out that fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. after a few days of training, oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. when he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, oliver is horrified and runs off. he is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. mr. brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish oliver to his home and nurses him back to health. mr. brownlow is struck by oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. oliver thrives in mr. brownlow’s home, but two young adults in fagin’s gang, bill sikes and his lover nancy, capture oliver and return him to fagin.
fagin sends oliver to assist sikes in a burglary. oliver is shot by a servant of the house and, after sikes escapes, is taken in by the women who live there, mrs. maylie and her beautiful adopted niece rose. they grow fond of oliver, and he spends an idyllic summer with them in the countryside. but fagin and a mysterious man named monks are set on recapturing oliver. meanwhile, it is revealed that oliver’s mother left behind a gold locket when she died. monks obtains and destroys that locket. when the maylies come to london, nancy meets secretly with rose and informs her of fagin’s designs, but a member of fagin’s gang overhears the conversation. when word of nancy’s disclosure reaches sikes, he brutally murders nancy and flees london. pursued by his guilty conscience and an angry mob, he inadvertently hangs himself while trying to escape.
mr. brownlow, with whom the maylies have reunited oliver, confronts monks and wrings the truth about oliver’s parentage from him. it is revealed that monks is oliver’s half brother. their father, mr. leeford, was unhappily married to a wealthy woman and had an affair with oliver’s mother, agnes fleming. monks has been pursuing oliver all along in the hopes of ensuring that his half-brother is deprived of his share of the family inheritance. mr. brownlow forces monks to sign over oliver’s share to oliver. moreover, it is discovered that rose is agnes’s younger sister, hence oliver’s aunt. fagin is hung for his crimes. finally, mr. brownlow adopts oliver, and they and the maylies retire to a blissful existence in the countryside.