 116  3. Squatting used to be allowed in Britain. 4. The author suggests that the local councils should let homeless young people live in the houses that have been empty for more than 6 months already. II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы. 1. Where did the author live when he came to London last year? 2. Why are the numbers of homeless people growing? 3. Why is the situation with homeless people like a vicious circle? 4. Why are there many empty houses in London? III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста. 1. Anyone who has ever visited the suburbs of London cannot help noticing the number of people living and sleeping in the streets. 2. The author came to London to study the problem of squatting. №12 Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания. Good memories are the most precious of our treasures. They remain with us all our lives, like favourite books to be plucked down and enjoyed. But sometimes an otherwise marvellous memory brings guilt and uncertainty. This happened to me. The experience goes back 36 years to my childhood in rural Virginia. In those soft days so long ago, my closest friends were Lou Coles and her ten children. They lived in a log cabin Within hollering distance of our house. I especially liked Louis Coles and two of his brothers. Every day we would holler back and forth urgently discussing our plans. Lou Coles was a stout woman who usually kept her head wrapped in a kerchief. The Coles cabin had two small rooms downstairs and one upstairs. It sat on a hill among large shade trees, surrounded by acres of cow pasture. I suppose I loved the Coleses as dearly as I did my own little sister. To me, their lives seemed idyllic, even though the bigger children spent long days labouring in the tobacco fields. Their water came from a hand-dug well and their light from kerosene lamps. But there was a warmth about their lives that I longed to share — and did. 116 |
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