Exercises

1. Choose the right statement:

1. Alice visited Tweedledum and Tweedledee and decided to stay with them for a day.

2. Alice didn’t know who was who, when she met Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

3. Alice forgot to say ‘How do you do?’

4. Alice didn’t like poetry.

2. Why did Alice want to find a road out of the wood as sooner as possible?

1. She didn’t like the wood.

2. She was afraid of Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

3. It was getting dark and she wanted to get the Eighth Square.

4. She didn’t want to get lost.

3. Why did Tweedledee decide to read out a poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter”?

1. It was the longest poem.

2. It was the shortest poem.

3. It was a funny poem.

4. He hoped Alice would like poetry after it.

4. Did Alice like the both characters of the poem?

1. Yes, she liked them a lot.

2. No, she liked only the Walrus.

3. No, she liked only the Carpenter.

4. No, she liked none of them.

5. Why did Tweedledum want to have a battle with Tweedledee?

1. Tweedledum didn’t love his brother Tweedledee.

2. Tweedledee broke his rattle.

3. Tweedledee didn’t want to play with him.

4. Tweedledum was very naughty.

6. Complete the table:

Chapter 5

Wool and Water

She caught the scarf, and looked around, where is the owner? In another moment, the White Queen came running through the wood. Alice went out to meet her with the scarf.

“I’m very glad I’ve met you here,” Alice said, she helped the White Queen to put her scarf on again.

Alice saw that the Queen was very untidy.

“What has happened to you hair?” asked Alice.

“The brush has got entangled in it!” the Queen said. “And I lost my comb yesterday.”

Alice did her best to get the hair into order. “You look better now!” she said. “But really you should have a maid!”

“I’ll take you with pleasure!” the Queen said. “Twopence a week, and jam every other day.”

Alice laughed, as she said, “I don’t want to be your maid … and I don’t care for jam.”

“It’s very good jam,” said the Queen.

“Well, I don’t want any today, anyway.”

“No,” the Queen said. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday … but never jam today.”

“I don’t understand you,” said Alice.

“That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly.

“Living backwards!”

“Oh, things that happened the next week,” the Queen said. “For instance, now there’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now. The trial won’t begin till next Wednesday, and of course there hasn’t been any crime yet.”

“Perhaps he will never commit the crime?” said Alice.

“That would be better, wouldn’t it?” the Queen said.

Suddenly the Queen began screaming very loudly, “Oh, oh, oh! My finger’s bleeding! Oh, oh, oh, oh!”

“What’s the matter?” Alice asked, “Have you pricked your finger?”

“I haven’t pricked it yet,” the Queen said, “but I will soon … oh, oh, oh!”

“When are you going to do it?” Alice was puzzled.

“When I touch my scarf again,” the poor Queen said, “the brooch will prick me. Oh, oh!”

“Be careful!” cried Alice. But it was too late. The Queen had pricked her finger.

“Now you understand the way things happen here,” she said to Alice with a smile.

“But why don’t you scream now?” Alice asked.

“I’ve screamed already,” said the Queen.

By this time it was getting light. “The crow has flown away, I think,” said Alice, “I’m so glad it’s gone!”

Alice looked at the Queen, then she rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn’t understand what had happened. Was she in a shop? And was that really … was it really a sheep that was sitting here? She was in a little dark shop, and there was an old Sheep, who was sitting in an arm-chair and knitting.

“What do you want to buy?” the Sheep asked.

“I don’t know yet,” Alice said, very politely. “I would like to look all round me first.”

“You can look in front of you, and on both sides,” said the Sheep: “but you can’t look all round you … you don’t have eyes at the back of your head.”

Alice looked at the shelves.

The shop was full of curious things … but something was very strange. Every time she looked at any shelf, that shelf was always empty, but the others were full.

Alice looked at the Sheep. She was now working with fourteen pairs of needles at once, and Alice was very much surprised.

“How can she knit with so many?” Alice thought to herself. “She gets more and more!”

“Can you row?” the Sheep asked and gave Alice a pair of knitting-needles.

“Yes, a little … but not on land … and not with needles …” Alice said, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she understood that they were in a little boat. So Alice had to row.

“The water is very strange too,” she thought. Every time the oars got in it they would hardly come out again.

“Oh! There are some water-lilies!” Alice cried. “They are so beautiful! Please, may we wait and pick some? If you don’t mind.”

Alice stopped rowing and tried to get the most beautiful water-lilies.

“I hope the boat won’t turn over!” she said to herself. “Oh, what a lovely water-lily! But I can’t reach it.”

But the next moment the water-lilies began to fade and lose all their beauty. Real water-lilies last very little … and these were dream-water-lilies, which faded even faster.

Suddenly one of the oars got in the water and didn’t come out again, and Alice fell down among the water-lilies.

“Now, what do you want to buy?” said the Sheep.

“To buy?” Alice repeated. The oars, and the boat, and the river had vanished. She was back again in the little dark shop.

“I should like to buy an egg, please,” she said. “How much?”

“Fivepence for one … Twopence for two,” the Sheep said.

“Then two are cheaper than one?” Alice said in a surprised tone.

“Only you must eat them both, if you buy two,” said the Sheep.

“Then I’ll have one, please,” said Alice and put the money on the counter.

The Sheep took the money and told Alice to get the egg from a shelf.

Alice started her way further into the shop. “Let me see, is this a chair? Oh, it’s got branches! There are trees! And there is a little brook! Well, this is the strangest shop I have ever seen!”

So she went on, wondering more and more at every step. Everything turned into a tree when she came up to the egg.

Exercises

1. Why didn’t Alice understand the White Queen?

1. She was living backwards.

2. The White Queen was speaking German.

3. She had a bad memory.

4. The Queen was shouting very loudly.

2. What did the White Queen turn into?

1. The Rabbit

2. The Sheep

3. The Pawn

4. The Red Queen

3. What was curious about the shop?

1. Every time she looked at one shelf it was empty, but the others were full.

2. Every time she looked at the Sheep, she turned into the White Queen.

3. Every time she looked at the shelf, she found a new thing on it.

4. Every time she looked at the Sheep, she was knitting a new sock.

4. Find the right statement:

1. The Sheep was very friendly, she helped Alice to row.

2. The Sheep was knitting all the time.

3. The Sheep didn’t want to stop the boat.

4. The Sheep was always angry with Alice.

5. Choose the right verbs:

Suddenly one of the oars ……… in the water and didn’t ……… again, and Alice ……… among the water-lilies.

1. stopped, go out, fell down

2. stuck, take out, flew down

3. got, come out, fell down

4. stopped, come out, jumped

6. Complete the sentences with these expressions:

crime, did her best, don’t mind, buy two

1. ‘Please, may we wait and pick some water-lilies?’ Alice asked. ‘If you …………….’

2. Alice ……………… to get the hair into order. ‘You look better now!’ she said.

3. He will never commit ………………

4. ‘Only you must eat them both, if you ………..’

7. Insert the right prepositions:

up to, into, for (2), in, to

1. ‘I don’t want to be your maid and I don’t care …… jam.’

2. Suddenly the needles turned …… oars …… her hands

3. They didn’t talk …… each other …… a minute or two.

4. Everything turned into a tree when she came ……… the egg.

8. Complete the table: