Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry looked upon it with a jealous, proprietary right; he called it “my health resort” and he feared that the coconuts that covered it would tempt some enterprising trader
B) He looked at me with desire
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry seemed to be occupied with nothing but his food, his dogs and his chickens
B) If what they tell us in books were true his long communion with nature and the sea should have taught him many subtle secrets. And it just did!
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was a man of over seventy, very bald, hatchet-faced, with a grey beard, and he walked with a roll so that you could never have taken him for anything but a sea-faring man
B) German Harry sunburn made his blue eyes look very pale and they were surrounded by wrinkles as though for long years he had spent interminable hours scanning the vacant sea
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was a prince
B) He was a young prince who left his royal family and ran away
(*ответ*) А- false, В- false
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was pleased to see us
B) He accepted our gifts as a right, without thanks, and grumbled a little because something or other he needed had not been brought
(*ответ*) А- false, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was silent and morose
B) He was not interested in the news we had to give him, for the outside world was no concern of his: the only thing he cared about was his island
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry wore dungarees and a singlet, patched, but neat and clean
B) The house to which he presently led us consisted of a single room with minibar and satelite TV with the channel Kultura
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry would say no more
B) He was absolutely fixed in his determination to stay, entirely by himself, in that lonely place
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry’s history went back a long way
B) Thirty years before, German Harry had been an able seaman on a sailing vessel that was wrecked in those treacherous waters
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He would go up to the hut and there, lying on the bed, unrecognisable, he would see all that remained of what had once been a man(German Harry)
B) Perhaps then he would hunt high and low for the great mass of dollars that has haunted the fancy of so many adventurers
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I learned nothing about German Harry as we sailed across the desolate sea
B) The Torres Straits are peppered with pirates
(*ответ*) А- false, В- false
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I never lent Tom fifty roubles without feeling that I was in his debt
B) Tom Ramsay knew no-one and no-one knew Tom Ramsay
(*ответ*) А- false, В- false
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I saw the hotel, sheltered by trees, in which German Harry lived, and as we approached he sauntered down slowly to the water’s edge
B) We shouted a greeting, but he did not answer
(*ответ*) А- false, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I shall have thirty thousand pounds by the time I’m fifty
B) For twenty-five years I’ve said that Tom would end in the gutter
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I suppose every family has a black cat
B) Tom had been a sore trial to his family for twenty years, because he was a cat and he was black
(*ответ*) А- false, В- false
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I was in Thursday Island and I wanted very much to go to New Guinea.
B) Now the only way in which I could do this was by getting a pearling lugger to take me across the Arafura Sea
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true