Kitabı oku: «Алиса в стране чудес: адаптированный текст + задания. Уровень А1»

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Chapter 1
Down the Rabbit Hole

Alice was tired of sitting near her sister on the bank of the river. She didn’t know what to do:once or twice she looked into the book that her sister was reading. But the book had no pictures or conversations in it. “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

She was thinking about making adaisy-chainbut the day was hot and she felt very sleepy and lazy. Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran past her.

The Rabbit said to itself “Oh dear! Oh dear, I shall be late!” Then it took a watch out of his pocket, and looked at it, andhurried on. Alice stood up and burning with curiosityran across the field after it. So she was just in time to see that the Rabbit jumped down a large rabbit hole under the hedge.

Alice went down after it. The rabbit hole was like a tunnel and then it suddenly went down. It was sosudden that Alice didn’t have time to think. And the next moment she was falling down the well. The well was so deep or she was falling so slowly that she had time to look around. She saw cupboards and bookshelves, there were maps and pictures there too. But she was falling down and down. “I must be near the centre of the earth,” Alice said aloud. “I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it will be to see people that walk with their heads down!