I Drove All Night

Book I Chapter 1 Ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening

The Arabian Nights Lang, Andrew Published: 1898 Categorie(s): Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Mythology, Juvenile Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Lang: Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk – July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at St Andrews University are named for him

on He is ... person! A) so a strange B) a such strange C) such a strange D) a so strange Excuse me, can you help me? I need ... . A) an advice B) some advice C) some advices D) one advice 9. She is wearing the same dress ... you. A) that B) as C) like D) than 2. 10. This job is ... I thought A) not so easy than B) not as easy as C) more difficult that D) more hard that 11. I am ... staying with a friend. A) currently B) until now C) actually D) sometimes 12. The government ... to reduce unemployment

habits. Furthermore, making decisions involve collectivism and solidarity in Japanese business whereas individualism takes precedence over the group in France. In Japan, negotiations always happen in team. Culture in society In society, we are all unique too because we have our own culture. For example, through the language French and German have not the same beliefs. Indeed in France, we say a sun and it is a masculine noun whereas women are associated with the moon which is a feminine noun

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” 5. Tragic events of his later life Mark Twain’s works • The Gilded Age: His first novel • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (his masterpiece: “all modern American literature comes”) • Life on the Mississippi • Famous for his localism, colloquial style, humor and bitter satires Local Colorism • The social and intellectual climate of the country provided a stimulating milieu

Chapitre VII : PRÉPOSITIONS ET PARTICULES ADVERBIALES I. LES PRÉPOSITIONS I.1. DÉFINITION ET STRUCTURES Une préposition introduit un complément, que l'on appelle complément prépositionnel du verbe. Le verbe régissant l'emploi d'une préposition peut ou non être un verbe prépositionnel. On appelle verbe prépositionnel tout verbe qui ne peut se construire sans préposition dès qu'il est suivi d'un complément d'objet. La préposition est alors inhérente au verbe. He hopes for a better future. Le verbe

feverish doze with her cheeks wet with tears. For the last week when they came out of the Veau à Deux Têtes, where they ate, he had sent her off to bed with the children and had not appeared until late into the night and always with a story that he had been looking for work. This very night, while she was watching for his return, she fancied she saw him enter the ballroom of the Grand-Balcon, whose ten windows blazing with lights illuminated, as with a sheet of fire, the black lines of the outer boulevards

between the training of these writers and their art, between the lives they led and the work they did, between their surroundings and their message, remains untraced and obscure despite every effort of loving or malicious research. Thus, above all others, it is with Shakespeare ; and thus it would remain if every fact of his daily existence were known to us. Thus, in differing degrees and for various reasons, it is with Cervantes and Swift, with Keats and with Heine. Others, on the con-

too much exhausted to speak. "Not long ago," said he at length, "and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened before to mortal man --or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of --and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul. You suppose me a very old man --but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty

Dracula warns Harker that it is unsafe to wander the castle, and especially to fall asleep in any part of the castle other than his room. Harker ignores Dracula's advice and goes exploring. On two occasions, he sees Dracula scaling the castle wall at night, like a lizard. Harker is almost bitten by three women but is saved by Dracula, who warns them to keep their hands off Harker, saying that the solicitor belongs to him. Dracula gives them a baby to eat instead. Harker watches several days later as