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A Day Off Work
Last Wednesday morning Bill rang Mr. Thomson, his boss,
at the office and said that he was not well. "All right,” said his
boss. "You may stay in bed today if you are not well.” Mr.
Thomson liked Bill very much. At lunch time he bought some
fruit and took it to Bill. Bill thanked him and said he would be
able to come the next day.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Thomson locked his
office door and switched on his portable TV set. He wanted to
watch an important international football match. It was
England against Brazil. Both teams* were playing well. It was
very exciting. At 3.20 England scored a goal** Mr. Thomson
jumped out of his chair. He was very excited. He was smiling
happily. When suddenly the cameraman focused on the crowd,
Mr. Thomson stopped smiling and looked very angry. Bill's
face was there on the screen. He didn't look ill at all.
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1. Hurry up! We have very little time.

2. Don’t make so much noise. The child is sleeping.

3. There are a few tape-recorders in this lab, but very few TV-sets.

4. Is there much or little snow in England in winter?

5. Are there many mistakes in my dictation? – No, your dictation is very good.

6. – Are there many or few pictures in this book? – Only a few.

7. There is still little sugar in my tea. May I ask you for some more sugar?

8. Can you describe the situation in a few words?

9. We have not got many pear-trees in our garden, but there are a lot of apple-trees there.

10. – How much water is there in the tea-pot? – Very little .

The spectacular St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was built by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century to commemorate a military victory. It is the most famous sight on Red Square

St. Basil's was built to commemorate the capture of the Tatar stronghold of Kazan in 1552, which occurred on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. The cathedral was thus officially named Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat. But the cathedral was popularly known as St. Basil's Cathedral, after St. Basil the Blessed, almost from the beginning. Basil impressed Ivan in 1547 when he foretold a fire that swept through Moscow that year. Upon his death, Basil was buried in the Trinity Cathedral that stood on this site at the time. St. Basil's Cathedral was constructed from 1555 to 1560. Legend says that after it was completed, Ivan had the architect blinded in order to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else. (In fact, he went on to build another cathedral in Vladimir.)In 1588, Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich added a ninth chapel added on the eastern side to house the grave of St. Basil. In modern times, St. Basil's came very close to falling victim to Stalin, who resented that it prevented his soldiers from leaving Red Square en masse. But the architect Baranovsky stood on the cathedral's steps and threatened to cut his own throat if the masterpiece was destroyed and Stalin relented (but punished Baranovsky with five years in prison). More recently, St. Basil's Cathedral has suffered significant damage from weather and neglect. It was not until the Millennium that funds were allocated to restore its foundations and flaking surfaces.

In a garden at the front of the cathedral stands a bronze statue commemorating Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who rallied Russia's volunteer army against the Polish invaders during the Time of Troubles in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The statue was originally constructed in the centre of Red Square, but the Soviet government felt it obstructed parades and moved the statue in front of the cathedral in 1936.