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SUCCESSLC PDFBOOKSYOUNEED VOCABULARY LIST FROM THE TEXT WORD TRANSLATION INTO UZBEK ASLANOVS_LESSONS SUCCESSLC PDFBOOKSYOUNEED WAY TO IELTS SUCCESS – READING SOLUTION 1 DAY 8 VOCABULARY PART ‘Tom Sawyer’ by Mark Twain “Hello, have you got to work?” Tom turned around suddenly and said: “Oh, Ben, it’s you! I didn’t notice you.” “I’m going swimming,” Ben said. “Don’t you wish you could come too? But of course you'd rather work, wouldn’t you? Course you would!” Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: “What do you call work?” “Well, isn’t THAT work?” Ben answered. Tom continued with his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: “Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.” “Oh come, now,” Ben said. “You don’t mean that you LIKE it?” The brush continued to move. “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?” That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush back and forth, stepped back to admire the effect, added a touch here and there, criticised the effect again, Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Eventually, he said: “Hey, Tom, let ME whitewash a little.” Tom considered and was about to agree, but then he changed his mind: “No, no, I don’t think so, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly’s extremely particular about this fence, right here on the street, you know, but if it was the back fence I wouldn’t mind and SHE wouldn’t. Yes, she’s very particular about this fence. I don’t think there’s one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it’s got to be done.” “No … is that so?” Ben replied. “Oh come now, let me just try. Only just a little. I’d let YOU, if you were me, Tom.” “Ben, I’d like to, really, but Aunt Polly, well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn’t let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn’t let Sid. Now don’t you see my problem? If you tackled this fence and anything happened to it …” “Oh, I’ll be just as careful,” Ben said. “Now let me try. I’ll give you the core of my apple …” “Well, no, Ben, now don’t. I’m afraid …” “I'll give you ALL of it!” Ben insisted. Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but eagerness in his heart. And while the late steam boat Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, Tom sat on a barrel in the shade close by, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys came along every once in a while; they came to make fun of Tom, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite – in good condition – and when he got tired, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with – and so on, and so on, hour after hour. When the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was rolling in wealth. Besides the things already mentioned, he had twelve marbles, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a key that wouldn’t unlock anything, a piece of chalk, a tin soldier, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog-collar but no dog, the handle of a knife and four pieces of orange peel. He had had a nice, lazy time all the while – plenty of company and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn’t run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village. Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it; namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. |
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