1)
1.Can you swim? Yes, I can.
2.I'm sorry, I can't help you today, I'm really busy.
3.Please can you buy some milk on your way home? I can't leave the house because I'm looking after the baby.
2)
1.I have a bike. And I can ride a bike but I can't drive a car.
2.Look!It's right there! Can you see it? It's so obvious!
3.Hello, can I help you'? 'Actually, no, you can't.This restaurant is awful and we've been waiting here for half an hour. We're leaving'.
3)
1. I have a special talent, I can touch my nose with my tongue, can you?
2.Can I go to the bathroom please'? 'Yes, of course you can.
3.. I just can't manage to wake up on time, I'm always late.
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War and Peace
I first fell in love with Tolstoy's War and Peace when I was sixteen. I actually won a copy as a prize for being top student at school for English. I proudly took my new prize on a family holiday to Wales and so A 3. it was on a remote and rugged costal path, I made my first acquaintance with Lev Tolstoy.
It wasn't love at first sight. The character names and families are challenging to
an English reader; but before long I was captivated. I still remember B 5. that first time reading the novel and the sense of loss when the story was over. However, some years were to pass before I revisited that vast literary landscape although it remained fixed in my memory; like a vivid dream. I was then in my thirties. By that time I'd read all Tolstoy's works and had C 7. no particular interest in re-reading any. But at that time I happened to see the old 1956 movie of War and Peace starring Audrey Hepburn. I had mixed feelings about the film and the result was that D 1. I ended up reading the novel a second time. What a glorious experience that was, as nineteenth-century Russia once more became real in my imagination.
Another twenty years were to pass E 6. until this year when I heard the BBC were making a new TV adaptation with Lily James as Natasha Rostova and Paul Dano as Pierre Bezukhof. This prompted me to read the great novel for the third time in my life. I expected watching the new BBC series to be a disappointment after the
novel - but F 4. it turned out I was completely wrong. It was absolutely wonderful.
Having been so much exposed to War and Peace over the years I have
wondered if I have regardless missed out its true greatness -- because I don't
read in Russian. It is probably too late for me to learn and find out but perhaps
one day I'll learn.
1. I ended up
2. it could be on
3. it was on
4. it turned out
5. that first time
6. until this year
7. no particular interest
