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Pearson Central Europę Sp. z o. o. 2011

Longman Repetytorium Maturalne • poziom rozszerzony • Książka nauczyciela

Zadanie 8. (4 pkt.)

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It was still early when we got settled, and George said that it would be a splendid opportunity to try a good, slap-up supper. He suggested that we should make an Irish stew.

It seemed a fascinating idea. George gathered wood and madę a tire, and Harris and I started to peel the potatoes. I should ncver have thought that peełing potatoes was such an undertaking. We began cheerfully but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished. The morę we peeled, the morę peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left-at least nonę worth speaking of. George came and had a look at it—it was about the size of a peanut. He said:

‘Oh, that won’t do! You’re wasting them. You must scrape them.’

So we scraped them, and that was harder work than peeling. We worked steadily for twenty-flve minutes, and did four morę potatoes. George said it was absurd to have so few potatoes in an Irish stew, so we washed six morę, and put them in without peeling. We also put in a cabbage and about half a packet of peas. George stirred it all up, and then he said that there seemed to be a lot of room to spare, so we added whatever else we could find to the stew. There were haif a pork pie and a bit of cold boiled bacon left, and we put them in. Then George found half a tin of salmon, and he emptied that into the pot.

He said that was the advantage of Irish stew: you got rid of such a lot of things. I fished out a couple of eggs that had got cracked, and put those in. George said they would thicken the gravy.

1 forget the other ingredients, but I know nothing was wasted. Montmorency appeared with a dead water-rat in his mouth, which he evidently wished to present as his contribution to the dinner. We had a discussion as to whether the rat should go in or not. Harris said that he thought it would be all right, mixed up with the other things, and that every little helped; but George said he had never heard of water-rats in Irish stew, and he would rather be on the safe side, and not try experiments.

It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoycd a meal morę. Here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth. And it was nourishing, too.

The peas and potatoes might have been a bit softer, but we all had good teeth, so that did not matter much: and as for the gravy, it was a poem-a little too rich, perhaps, for a weak stornach, but nutritious.

8.1.    Harris and the writer

A.    had been unhappy at being asked to peel potatoes.

B.    ąuickly changed their minds about peeling potatoes.

C.    peeled several potatoes before they gave up the cooking.

D.    were unable to peel the whole potato.

8.2.    The total number of potatoes in the stew in the end was

A.    four.

B.    six.

C.    eleven.

D.    impossible to say.

8.3.    George wanted morę ingredients in the stew because he

A.    didn’t think there were enough vcgetables in it.

B.    wanted it to have morę flavour.

C.    wanted it to be thicker.

D.    wanted to use up all their old food.

8.4.    From what the writer says, we know that the stew consisted of

A.    only the foods listed.

B.    the foods listed plus a water rat.

C.    other ingredients as well as the food listed.

D.    the food listed, some other unnamed ingredients and a water rat.

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