### Итоговый ответ
#### 1. Background Information & Biography
* **What do you know about Charlotte Brontë?**
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was a famous English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became English literature classics.
* **Name some of her novels:**
* *Jane Eyre* (1847)
* *Shirley* (1849)
* *Villette* (1853)
* *The Professor* (1857)
* **What is Jane Eyre about?**
It is a story about an orphaned girl who grows up in an abusive home and attends a harsh school, but perseveres through life's hardships to eventually find independence, love, and happiness.
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#### 2. Reading & Comprehension
**a) Who is narrating the story?**
The story is narrated in the first person by the main character, **Jane Eyre** herself as a young girl.
**b) True (T), False (F), or Doesn't Say (DS):**
1. **F** (*"...bullied and punished me... not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually..."*)
2. **T** (*"...Mrs Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me..."*)
3. **T** (*"...more frequently, however, behind her back."*)
4. **F** (*"You have no right to take our books. You are a dependant..."* — He was angry because she had taken a book belonging to the family, not because he wanted to read it.)
5. **DS** (*"...the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door..."* — It doesn't specify where the book hit her; she hit her head on the door.)
6. **T** (*"‘You are like the Roman emperors!’ I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero..."*)
7. **F** (*"...Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs Reed, who was upstairs: she now came upon the scene..."* — She came because the girls fetched her, not from hearing shouts.)
8. **T** (*"‘How disgraceful to fly at Master John!’ ... ‘Take her away to the Red-room, and lock her in there.’"*)
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#### 3. Vocabulary
**a) Matching underlined words/phrases:**
* **feelings of love/fondness** — *affection*
* **confused** — *bewildered*
* **supporting me** — *taking my side*
* **feeling anxious/unhappy about sth that will/may happen** — *dreading*
* **soon** — *shortly*
* **doing sth without being seen or heard** — *sneaking*
* **used to** — *accustomed to*
* **search for sth in a careless/hurried way** — *rummage*
* **shouted in a deep, angry voice** — *bellowed*
* **flow slowly** — *trickle*
**b) Explanation of words in bold:**
* **inflictions** — acts of causing pain, suffering, or punishment (страдания, причиняемый вред).
* **impudence** — rude or disrespectful behavior (дерзость, наглость).
* **hurl** — to throw something with great force (швырнуть с силой).
* **grasp** — to quickly take firm hold of someone or something (схватить).
* **predominated** — became the strongest or most noticeable feeling (преобладали).
* **fly at** — to attack someone suddenly and violently (наброситься на кого-либо).
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#### 4. Sentence Completion
1. He **hurled** the ball high into the air.
2. The baby was nervous and **grasped** his mother's hand for security.
3. The water just **trickled** out of the tap.
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### Объяснение и комментарии
1. **Задание 2b:**
* В **утверждении 1** слово *occasionally* (изредка) противоречит тексту, где сказано *continually* (постоянно).
* В **утверждении 5** в тексте сказано, что книга попала в Джейн (*it hit me*), после чего девочка упала и ударилась головой о дверь (*striking my head against the door*). Куда именно попала книга — не уточняется, поэтому правильный ответ — **DS** (*Doesn't Say*).
* В **утверждении 7** миссис Рид спустилась не из-за криков, а потому что её позвали сёстры Элиза и Джорджиана.
2. **Задание 4 (Грамматические формы глаголов):**
* Все предложения описывают действия в прошлом, поэтому используются формы **Past Simple**:
* *hurl* $\rightarrow$ **hurled** (швырнул);
* *grasp* $\rightarrow$ **grasped** (схватился);
* *trickle* $\rightarrow$ **trickled** (текла тонкой струйкой / капала).