Задание
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Jane Eyre
The manor-house of Ferndean was a simple building of considerable age, medium size, and buried deep in a wood. I had heard of it before. Mr Rochester often spoke it, and sometimes went there. His father had purchased the estate for use as a hunting ground. He would have let the house, bit couldn’t find no tenant because of its poor and inconvenient site. Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of Mr Rochester when he went there in the season to shoot.
To this house I came one dark evening marked by the characteristics of sad sky, cold gate, and continued rain. The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double payment I had promised. Even when within a very short distance of the manor-house, you could see nothing of it, so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it.
Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees. There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between wild shrubs and under branched arches. I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it wound far and farther: no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.
I thought I had taken a wrong direction and lost my way. The darkness of dusk gathered over me. I looked round in search of another road. There was none: all was a tangle of trees, overshadowing leaves and dense summer vegetation- no opening anywhere.
I proceeded: at last my way opened, the trees thinned a little; presently I beheld a railing, then the house – scarce, by this dim light, distinguishable from the trees; so damp and green were its decaying walls. Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood within a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle. There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk bordering a stretch of grass, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest. The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. The whole looked, as the host of the Rochester Arms had said, “quite a desolate spot”. It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound.
“Can there be life here?” I asked.
Yes, life of some kind there was; for I heard a movement … that narrow front door was unclosing, and some shape was about to issue from a house.
It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hands as if to feel whether it rained. Dusk as it was, I had recognized him – it was the master of the house, my employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester, and no other.
adapted from Jane Eyre by Brontë
12. The author creates a sense of a building that is
1) well loved.
2) secluded.
3) grand.
4) old-fashioned.
13. The Ferndean estate was originally bought
1) as a present.
2) to raise an income.
3) for access to wild animals.
4) to house members of staff.
14. The expression ‘in the season’ in ‘for the accommodation of Mr Rochester when he went there in the season to shoot’ means
1) when the weather was fine.
2) when Mr Rochester’s mood was right.
3) at a time of celebration.
4) when people traditionally did such a thing.
15. When a narrator believed she was lost, her reaction was to
1) turn back the way she had come.
2) take a different path through the trees.
3) stop and wait for help.
4) look closer at what was ahead.
16. When the narrator arrived at the building
1) the trees surrounding it were almost bare.
2) she admired its garden.
3) she noticed it was in a poor state of repair.
4) complete darkness had fallen.
17. A church is mentioned at the end of the fourth paragraph to
1) describe the emptiness of the scene.
2) describe the style of the architecture.
3) reveal the narrator’s respect for religion.
4) reveal how apprehensive the narrator was.
18. At the building the narrator saw someone who
1) greeted her with a handshake.
2) tried to stay hidden.
3) had difficulty opening the door.
4) had a professional relationship with her.