Mr. Hughes lived twenty kilometres from London, and his office was in the City. He went to work by train and bus at 8.00 in the morning and got home at 7.30 in the evening. It rains rather a lot in England, and Mr. Hughes usually took an umbrella with him to London, but he often lost umbrellas. He lost them in buses, in trains and in shops. His wife often said to him, ‘Umbrellas are expensive, David, and you buy one every week. Bring this one home this evening!’
One evening Mr. Hughes saw an umbrella in his train.
‘Today I’m not going to lose my umbrella,’ he said happily, and he took the umbrella, got out of the train at his station and brought the umbrella home. His wife saw it and began laughing. ‘But, David,’ she said, ‘you didn’t take an umbrella with you this morning.
That one isn’t yours!’
A. Answer these questions.
- What did Mr. Hughes often do with umbrellas?
- What did his wife say?
- What did he see in his train one evening?
- What did he say and do?
- What did his wife say then?
B. Which of the words in the story on number 28 mean:
- between afternoon and night
- costing a lot of money
- each
- many times
- to his house
