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The boy who lived

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.

Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with big moustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde. She spent all her time in a garden.

The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley whom they considered to be the finest boy ever. But they also had a secret. Mrs. Dursley had a sister, Mrs. Potter, but they hadn’t met for several years in fact. Mrs. Dursley pretended that she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. Mrs. Dursley knew that her sister had a small son too, but they have never seen him. This boy was a good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a child like that.  

When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Thursday, our story starts. Nobody noticed a large owl flutter past the window. Mr. Dursley got into his car and backed out of number four’s drive. It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar – a cat reading a map. For a second, Mr. Dursley didn’t realise what he had seen. Then he jerked his head around to look again. There was a tabby cat standing on a corner but there wasn’t a map in sight. It must have been a trick of the light. As Mr. Dursley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror. It was now reading the street sign!, no, looking at the sign; cats could not read the maps or signs. Mr. Dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind. (by J.Rawling)



Вопросы

  1. Why did Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were proud to say that they were perfectly normal?

  2. The Dursleys considered his son Dudley to be the  ________.

  3. Mrs. Dursley had a sister, ______but they hadn’t met for several years in fact.

  4. Nobody noticed a large ___flutter past the window.

  5. Mr. Dursley saw a cat __________.

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