Письменно ответьте на вопросы по тексту. Mr. Brown got to a hotel late in the evening after a long journey. He asked the desk clerk whether there were any vacant rooms in the hotel. At that moment another traveller came to the hotel and asked the desk clerk for a room too.

The only vacant room was a double one. “Do you mind spending the night in that room together?” the desk clerk asked. At first the travellers didn’t like the idea, but just then it began raining hard and they were too tired to go to another hotel, so they changed their minds. Their things were carried in and soon the two men went to sleep.

Suddenly a loud voice woke Mr. Brown up. It was quite dark. “What’s the matter?” Mr. Brown asked in surprise. In a weak voice the second traveller answered: “I’m sorry, but I had to wake you up. I’ve got asthma. I feel very bad. In addition I’ve got a terrible headache. If you don’t want me to die, open the window quickly.”

Mr. Brown jumped out of bed and began looking for matches, but he couldn’t find them in the dark, and the sick man went on: “Air, air, I want fresh air. I’m dying”.

Mr. Brown still couldn’t find the matches, so he tried to find the window. It took him some time, and at last he thought he had found it. But he couldn’t open it. As the voice of the traveller became weaker and weaker, Mr. Brown took a chair and broke the window with it. The sick man immediately stopped moaning and said he felt much better. Then the two of them slept peacefully until morning.

When they woke up next morning they were surprised to see that the only window in the room was closed but the large looking glass was broken to pieces.

1. What woke Mr. Brown up?

2. What happened to Mr. Brown’s neighbour?

3. What did Mr. Brown begin to look for?

4. Why did Mr. Brown break the window?

5. How did the travellers spend the rest of the night?

6. Why were they surprised in the morning?

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