Приключения Шерлока Холмса / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (сборник) - стр. 14

2. What does the look of the house and the rooms tell you about the people who lived in Stoke Moran?

2. Find the following words and phrases in the text and reproduce situations from the text with them. Give Russian equivalents.

1. an excuse to do smth

2. to throw light on / upon smth

3. crime

to commit a crime

3. Paraphrase the underlined parts of the sentences so as to use the phrases above and from the previous parts.

1. The French window led to a verandah.

2. Dr. Roylott started repairs to explain why his stepdaughter should move to another room.

3. The death certificate said that it was a heart attack that caused the death but the family didn’t believe it and asked the detective to look into it.

4. His mother’s illness was only something he mentioned to leave the party early. It was clear from the beginning he didn’t like it there.

5. A detective has sometimes to become the friend of people to get information he needs.

6. When Bob was on the way to the birthday party, he had a sudden idea that he didn’t have a birthday present.

7. Many years ago, when he was a young man, Dan’s uncle broke the law, but his family can’t forgive him even now.

4. Complete the sentences with the words and phrases above and from the previous parts in the correct form.

1. A few strange deaths… in the town before the police started investigation.

2. Sherlock Holmes was able… even the darkest and tragic cases.

3. Alice’s mother always used the girl’s poor health as… not to let the girl go out with her friends.

4. Tom didn’t want… his cousin to a discotheque because he didn’t… dancing. He could even say he hated dancing.

5. Has it ever… to you that your mum needs your help in housework?

6. Most people think it is not polite… other people without a telephone call before it.

7. The book… unknown facts of the great scientist’s life.

8. If you are interested in… books, go over to those shelves. We have all kinds of books – classical detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, hard-boiled detective novels by Raymond Chandler and others, modern police novels.

“It is very important, Miss Stoner,” said he, as we have already left the house and were standing in the park, “that you should absolutely follow my advice in every detail.”

“I shall certainly do so. I am in your hands.”

“In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in your room.”

Both Miss Stoner and I looked at him in surprise.

“Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that there is a hotel in the village over there?”