Прочитайте текст. **The Pencil** In every pupil's pencil case there is a pencil, a writing tool. Pencils can be coloured and graphite, wooden and plastic, and many others. It's interesting that the first pencils were brushes of camel hair. Can you

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The Pencil

In every pupil's pencil case there is a pencil, a writing tool. Pencils can be coloured and graphite, wooden and plastic, and many others. It's interesting that the first pencils were brushes of camel hair. Can you imagine writing your homework with the hair of the camel?!

One boy Tommy couldn't read. His teacher Ms Lilly wanted to help him and gave him a pencil. She said that was a

magical pencil and that pencil could teach him to read. Tommy didn't believe Ms Lilly, but then he started writing

first letters A, B, C. The letters suddenly smiled, started dancing and telling Tommy funny stories about themselves. Tommy laughed at them, listened carefully to the stories of the letters and easily remembered them. Soon he started to read better and better. When he read his first book, Tommy came to Ms Lilly and thanked for the magical pencil. Ms Lilly smiled at him and said that the pencil wasn't magical, The magic was in Tommy.

A. Choose the TRUE sentence.

1) Pencils can be of different colours.

2) People made first pencils from their hairs.

3) Every pencil case has got pens.

B. The problem with Tommy was that

1) couldn't write letters.

2) didn't have pencils.

3) couldn't read books.

C. Ms Lily was Tommy's

1) classmate.

2) teacher.

3) relative.

D. Tommy could remember the letters of the alphabet be-cause of their

1) dances.

2) funny stories.

3) smiles.

E. At the end of the story Tommy

1) believed in magic.

2) gave the pencil back.

3) read a book himself.

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