Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
Surname: …...... Name: …......
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Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 1. The Virgin and the Gipsy
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. The young people drove up to Bonsall Head. Suddenly, they saw a horse pulling a small green cart.
Because the road was narrow, ______
2. Yvette, Lucile, Lottie and Ella wanted ______
______( gipsy / fortunes)
3. Aunt Cissie asked Lucile and Ivette to collect money for the Window Fund too.
Aunt Cissie and Ivette’s father were angry with Ivette because ______
4. Yvette's father lent her some money so she ______
______(money)
5. The rectory was ______
6. Yvette always looked out of this window, hoping to see someone on the road.
When the gipsy saw Yvette standing at the window, ______
______
7. She danced with Leo Wetherell at the party.
Yvette ______Leo Wetherell so she didn't accept to get engaged with him.
8. Yvette told her family that she was going for a ride on her bicycle but ______
______(gipsies' camp)
9. Mrs Fawcett said to Yvette that they could tie her bicycle onto the back of the car so __
______(home)
10. The gipsy told Ivette about the old gipsy's dream 'Listen for the voice of water'
Although the old gipsy dreamt about 'the voice of water', Yvette ______
______
11. At the end of the story the rector and his daughters went to the quarry because ______
______
but the gipsies ______
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
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Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2. The lovely Lady
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some words in brackets you can use. Answer the last two sentences with your own explanation. (Total 10 puntos)
1. Pauline's niece, Ciss, had no money or home of her own.
She needed a place to live so ______
______(Aunt Pauline)
2. Pauline always had a rest in the afternoons.
When the sun shone, she liked to lie outside and ______
______(sun)
3. When Ciss heard that strange voice, she ______
______(flat roof )
4. Although Pauline Attenborough had a secret, Ciss ______
______
5. Pauline Attenborough knew Henry was dead but ______
______(voice)
6. Robert thought Ciss was his cousin so ______
______
7. Pauline Attenborough confessed her son that ______
______(father)
8. Pauline got her revenge on her son and her niece by ______
______
9. The second chapter is called The Lovely lady but ______
______
10. When Pauline Attenborough died, Robert and Ciss ______
______
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
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Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 3. The Rocking Horse Winner
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. Although Paul’s mother didn’t believe he was lucky, ______
______
2. Oscar Cresswell, Paul’s uncle, was surprised when Paul told him the horse which won the big race at Ascot because ______
______
3. Oscar Cresswell decided to be Paul and Basset’s partner when ______
______(fifteen hundred pounds)
4. Paul wanted to be lucky and ______
______(whispers)
5. Although Hester received one thousand pounds in her birthday, ______
______(lawyer)
6. Paul lost some money at the Grand National because ______
______
7. Paul didn’t want to leave the house because ______
______
8. Paul shouted: ‘Basset! Basset, I know! It’s Malabar’ because ______
______(racehorse / Derby)
9. When Basset bet on Malabar, Paul ______
______(eighty thousand pounds)
10. Although Hester had eighty thousand pounds, ______
______
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
Surname: …...... Name: …......
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Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 4. Love among the Haystacks
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. The Wookeys’ family piled up the hay into huge haystacks because ______
______(farm animals)
2. When there was a storm, ______
______(a canvas stack-cloth)
3. Maurice slipped and fell over the edge of the high stack onto the hard ground but Paula ______
______
4. When the tramp asked for work, ______
______
5. The harvest was not finished. Maurice was going to stay and meet Paula.
Maurice did not know what to do until Paula came so ______
______
6. When Geoffrey came to help Maurice put the cloth on the second stack, ______
______
7. The tramp’s wife was looking for her husband so ______
______(Geoffrey)
8. When Geoffrey planned to leave the country with Lydia, she ______
______(her sister)
9. Geoffrey lifted the ladder and put it against the side of the second stack.
Although Maurice tried to convince Paula that the ladder was not there the night before, Paula ____
______
10. At the end of the story everything changed for both brothers: Maurice ______
______and Geoffrey ______