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There was a knock on the door. I opened it and found a small dark man in a blue overcoat and a woolen cap. 2. He said he was an employee of a gas company and had come to read a meter ( счетчик). 3. But I had a suspicion that he wasn’t telling the truth because meter readers usually wear peaked caps (фуражки). 4. However, I took him to the meter, which is in the dark corner under stairs meters are usually in dark corners under stairs). 5. I asked if he had a torch; he said he disliked torches and always read meters by the light of the match. 6. I remarked that if there was a leak in a gas pipe there might be an explosion while he was reading the meter. 7. He said, «As a matter of a fact, there was the explosion in the last house I visited; and Mr. Smith, the owner of the house, was burnt in a face.»8. «Mr. Smith was holding a lighted match at the time of the explosion.» 9. To prevent a possible repetition of this accident, I lent him a torch. 10. He switched on the torch, read the meter and wrote a reading down on the back of an envelope. 11. I said in surprise that meter readers usually put readings down in a book. 12. He said that he had had a book but that it had been burnt in a fire in Mr. Smith’s house. 13. By this time I had come to conclusion that he wasn’t a genuine meter reader; and the moment he left a house I rang police. 14. Are John and Mary cousins? — No, they aren’t cousins; they are a brother and a sister. 15. The fog was so thick that we couldn’t see a side of the road. We followed a car in front of us and hoped that we were going the right way. 16. I can’t remember an exact date of the storm, but I know it was Sunday because everybody was at a church. On Monday a post didn’t come because roads were blocked by fallen trees. 17. Peter thinks that this is quite a cheap restaurant. 18. There’s been a murder here. — Where’s a body? — There isn’t a body. — Then how do you know there’s been the murder? 19. Number a hundred and two, a house next door to us, is for sale. It’s quite a nice house with big rooms. Back windows look out on a park. 20. I don’t know what a price thr owners are asking. But Dry and Rot are agents. You could give them … ring and make them … offer. 21. … postman’s little boy says that he’d rather be … dentist than a doctor, because dentists don’t get called out at night. 22. Just as an air hostess (there was only one on the plane) was handing me a cup of coffee a plane gave a lurch and the coffee went all over a person on the other side of … isle. 23. There was a collision between a car and a cyclist at crossroads near my house early in the morning. The cyclist was taken to hospital with a concussion. The driver of a car was treated for a shock. A witnesses say that the car was going at seventy miles an hour. 24. Professor Jones, thr man who discovered a new drug that everyone is talking about, refused to give a press conference. 25. Peter Piper, a student in a professor’s college, asked him why he refused to talk to a press. 26. We’re going to tea with the Smiths today, aren’t we? Shall we take the car? — We can go by car if you wash the car first. We can’t go to Mrs Smith’s in the car all covered with mud. 27. He got a job in the South and spent next two years doing the work he really enjoyed.28. It is a pleasure to do business with such an efficient organization. 29. A day after a day passed without news, and we began to lose hope. 30. Would you like to hear a story about an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman? — No. I’ve heard stories about the Englishmen, the Irishmen and the Scotsmen before and they are all the same. 31. But mine is not a typical story. In my story the Scotsman is generous, the Irishman is logical and the Englishman is romantic. —Oh, if it’s a fantastic story. I’ll listen to it with pleasure. 32. My aunt lived on the ground floor of the house on the River Thames. She was very much afraid of burglars and always locked up a house very carefully before she went to bed. She also took precaution of looking under the bed to see if a burglar was hiding there.