E. Read the text. Mark the sentences True/False/Not Stated. Text: Agatha Christie was a famous English writer of detective stories. She was born in a wealthy family in 1980. She didn’t go to school and got her education at home. She learnt to read at the age of five. Agatha began to write poems when she was eight. She played the piano and sang very well. At the age of eighteen the girl began to write short stories. During the First World War Agatha Christie served in a hospital as a nurse. After that she worked in a pharmacy and started to write detective stories. She wrote 68 novels, 17 plays, more than one hundred stories. The most famous characters of her novels are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. 1. Agatha Christie’s family was very poor. 2. Agatha learnt at home. 3. She began to read very early. 4. She couldn’t play the piano. 5. She was a soldier during the Second World War. 6. Agatha never married. 7. Agatha Christie wrote adventure stories. 8. She wrote a lot of stories.

Перевод задания: Прочитайте текст. Отметьте предложения «Верно», «Неверно» или «Не сказано».

1. False (Неверно) — сказано, что семья Агаты была состоятельной.
2. True (Верно) — она не ходила в школу и получала образование дома.
3. True (Верно) — она научилась читать в пять лет.
4. False (Неверно) — она хорошо играла на пианино.
5. Not Stated (Не сказано) — текст сообщает о её службе медсестрой во время Первой мировой войны, но не говорит о Второй мировой.
6. Not Stated (Не сказано) — о замужестве Агаты в тексте не говорится.
7. Not Stated (Не сказано) — названы детективные рассказы, но приключенческие рассказы не упоминаются.
8. True (Верно) — в тексте сказано, что она написала более ста рассказов.