Reading test :

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1)Match the sentences:

1_ After de hanging, Sir Mathew felt _of the full moon
2_ It was the night _ uncomfortable and guilty
3_ When he heard the news , _ dead and completely black
4_ Sir Mathew’s body lay on the bed _ the vicar rushed to Castringham

2) Fil in the gaps using the words

WINDOW SCREAMS LAKE STRANGE PICTURE HOLE
DUSTY FINGERNAILS EYES TREE
Giant black spiders living in a ……… The terrible ghost that waits outside a
…….. Empty clothes that walk. The ……..thin woman who moves through a
man’s………... The boy with the long, dirty …………. - and a ……. in his chest.
The woman who …….. from the bottom of a ……... And the dry ……. old man
who reads - but has no ……….!

3) Divided the following words into three categories:

Wished _ night _began_wrong_poison_explanation_table_offer_beautiful_

dangerous_tired _legs.

4) Translate the following paragraph

Things ... things in the night, things in the house, screaming,

running, staring ... In these stories there are things that are worse
than your worst dreams.
Giant black spiders living in a tree. The terrible ghost that waits
outside a window. Empty clothes that walk. The strange thin
woman who moves through a man’s picture. The boy with the
long, dirty fingernails - and a hole in his chest. The woman who
screams from the bottom of a lake. And the dry dusty old man
who reads - but has no eyes!
Here are nine stories like no others you have read.
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 in a village in Kent, in
the south of England, where his father was a vicar. From an early
age. he loved old books and studied history, the Bible, languages
and the books of past centuries at Cambridge University. He
studied, lived and worked at the University from 1882 to 1918.
He began to write ghost and horror stories after reading the stories
of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu. From the early 1890s, he read
one of his own stories to friends at Christmas every year. His
great knowledge of history gave his stories an unusual amount of
detail and his ghosts seem more real, and are more frightening,
than those of almost any other write

5) Find in the text Verbs , nouns and adjectives.