Angielski czytanie ćwiczenie 3 matura czerwiec 2020 – trzecie zadanie na rozumienie tekstu czytanego. Reading 3 – „nowa” matura.
Zadanie 6 – czytanie ćwiczenie 3.
Przeczytaj tekst. Z podanych odpowiedzi wybierz właściwą, zgodną z treścią tekstu. Zakreśl jedną z liter: A, B, C albo D.
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One stormy evening, an elderly couple who were looking for a room for the night arrived at the Belle Vue Hotel in Philadelphia. It was raining heavily so they hurried in.
“Could you give us a room?” the elderly man asked.
The clerk, a friendly young man, explained that there were three international conferences in town and not a single hotel had rooms available.
“All the guest rooms are taken,” the clerk said. “But I can’t send you out into the rain. Would you like to sleep in my room? It’s not very big but you’ll be comfortable there.”
“Where are you going to sleep?” the elderly man asked.
“Don’t worry. I can sleep in the reception area. You have no option but to stay here. You might not even get a taxi to the station in this kind of weather,” the clerk told them, and the couple agreed to his kind offer.
The next morning the elderly man offered some money for the room but the clerk refused to take it. “I didn’t do it for money. I just wanted to help you,” the clerk said.
“You are the person who should be the manager of the best hotel in the world. If I built a great hotel, would you come and join me?” the elderly man asked.
The clerk did not take the offer seriously and just laughed. “If you build one, I certainly will, Sir. And now, your taxi is waiting,” he replied.
Two years passed. The clerk had been promoted and had forgotten about the incident. But one day he received a letter from the elderly man, inviting him to visit New York. Inside the envelope there was also a train ticket.
The clerk was curious and decided to go. The elderly man met him at the station, and led him to the comer of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He then pointed to a huge new building there, with towers reaching up into the sky.“That,” said the elderly man, “is the hotel I have just built for you to manage.”
“You must be joking,” the young man said.
“I am not. I hired the best architects to design it and I need the best manager to run it,” he replied.
The elderly man’s name was William Waldorf, one of the richest men in New York, and that magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, at the time one of the best hotels in the world. The young clerk was George C. Boldt. He ran the hotel for the next 23 years.adapted from http://academictips.org
6.1. The elderly couple who came to the Belle Vue Hotel (!wanted to wait in the reception for the rain to stop.) (had no reservation for the night.) (!tried to change their booking.) (!asked the clerk to check the weather forecast.)
6.2. In the morning, the elderly man (!refused to pay for the accommodation.) (!complained about the room he had got.) (!wanted to see the manager of the hotel.) (suggested the clerk should work somewhere else.)
6.3. In his letter, the elderly man (asked the clerk to pay him a visit.) (!informed the clerk he would visit the hotel again.) (!promised to send the clerk some money.) (!congratulated the clerk on his promotion.)
6.4. When the clerk arrived in New York, he (!met an architect who had designed a famous hotel.) (!was shown the oldest hotel in the city.) (was offered a job in a luxurious hotel.) (!visited the best hotels on Fifth Avenue.)
6.5. Which would be the best title for the text? (!BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR) (!DISHONEST HOTEL GUESTS) (!AN UNLUCKY HOTEL CLERK) (IT PAYS TO BE HELPFUL.)
