... A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens ElecBook Classics
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angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken
man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all
the ... We have
never had any quarrel to which I have been a party. But I have
made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas
humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncl...
... that Christmas
was a humbug.
a) would say b) had said c) has said d) said
6. ‘He has always been a funny man,’ said Scrooge’s niece.
Scrooge’s niece said that he funny man.
a) always was b) always ... familiar about you.’
a) appears b) must c) is d) would
3. The ghost because of his past.
a) is trapped b) was being trapped
c) traps d) was trapping
4. Marley always a good man of...
... of Christmas was being
told and re-told: every man either sang
a Christmas carol, or had a Christmas
thought, or spoke quietly to his companion
of some past Christmas day.
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At last ...
that it could easily have been just a dream.
At least he hoped it had been a dream.
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‘Ding, dong!’ rang the bell.
A quarter past,’ said Scrooge, counting.
‘Ding, dong!’
‘Half-pa...
...
galloped far ahead, wherefore they are to be chronicled.
Madison Lane, a young cattleman from the Nueces country, won the race.
He and Rosita were married one Christmas day. Armed, hilarious, ... sheepman has not always lacked condonement, it was a
decided mis- demeanour in this instance. Carson was innocent; he was no
accomplice at the matrimonial proceedings; nor had any one he...
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... teams such as Trinity and Van-
derbilt and Sewanee held their own with Georgia and
Alabama and Tennessee, when Duke went to the Rose
Bowl after hiring away Alabama’s famous coach, Wallace
Wade. ... football
school—and Dean Smith a math teacher back in Kansas.
From what I have written you might think that my fa-
ther was also an athlete and a sports fan. In fact, he wasn’t
much of either,...
... not dare leave her room again. She sat there
watching an hour, and a pale radiance began to appear in the east,
which her room faced. It was like dawn in another world, everything
had so changed ... had only just begun to doze, when she awoke with a
great start. Her father had opened her door, and stood calling her.
“Maria,” he said, in an agitated voice.
Maria sat up in bed. “Oh, f...