35. Read the text and choose the appropriate answer.
We lived in an old, fashionable part of the city in a big house, in which the servants outnumbered the family. There were four of us, but the housemen, the cook, the parlourmaid, the laundrymaid, the chauffeur and the nurse were the majority and dominated. My poor mother, who had never had a servant in her life before her marriage, didn`t know how to manage such a household. She was naturally kind and somewhat fearful and was afraid she wouldn`t come up to the standards the servants expected. She didn`t insist that the servants speak of my sister and myself as Miss Caroline and Mr. David, which was what my father wanted. I suppose they were good servant somewhere but we never found any except Netty, my nurse.
The author`s mother couldn`t handle the servants because...
A) There were too many people in the family
B) There was no real help to be had from them
C)
She thought that they the servants were afraid of her
D)
She grew up in the family which had no servants
E) -
Правильный ответ:
D
Перевод:
Мы жили в старинной, старомодной части города в большом доме, в котором число слуг превышало нашу семью. Нас было четверо, а прислуга, повар, горничная, прачка, шофёр и няня были в большинстве и доминировали. Моя бедная мама, у которой никогда не было слуг до замужества, не знала, как управлять таким хозяйством. Она была от природы добра и немного боязливой, и боялась, что она не отвечает тем стандартам, которые слуги ожидают от неё. Она не настаивала на том, чтобы слуги называли мою сестру и меня мисс Каролина и мистер Дэвид, чего хотел мой отец. Я думаю, что где-то есть хорошие слуги, но нам никогда не попадались такие кроме моей няни Нетти.
Мать автора не могла справиться со слугами, потому что...
Пояснение:
There were too many people in the family - в семье было слишком много людей
There was no real help to be had from them - от них не было реальной помощт
She thought that they the servants were afraid of her - она думала, что слуги боялись её
She grew up in the family which had no servants - она выросла в семье, где не было слуг
