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A. How much did you understand?

Scene 1 

The right order of these sentences is 2, 4, 3, 1

"Wife! I'm hungry. Where's my dinner?" 

"What's the matter with you? Why don't you answer me?"  

"It's your mother. She hates me. She quarrels with me all the time." 

"You must choose. You can live with me, or you can live with her." 

Scene 2

The right order of these sentences is 3, 2,1

“Well, husband? Have you chosen? Do you want your mother, or do you want me?” 

“I want both of you!”

“What are you saying? How can I kill my own mother?”

Scene 3 

The right order of these sentences is 2, 3, 1

All day, he thought about his wife and his mother.

"I have chosen you. Tomorrow I will take my mother up the mountain and throw her from the cliff."

"I have cooked all your favourite dishes. When your mother is dead, I will make them for you every day.” 

Scene 4

The right order of these sentences is 3, 4, 2, 1

Soon the man and his mother were standing at the top of a cliff.

"But please be careful. Throw me over the cliff, but don't fall over yourself."

"Ah, my dear. Only a mother knows love."

"How good my mother is!"

B. What were they feeling?

1. One day the man came home late from the fields.  He was feeling tired.
2. The man was hungry, but his wife didn't bring him any dinner. He was feeling angry.
3. When the man began to carry his mother up the mountain, she was feeling happy.
4. "Mother, you know what I want to do," said the man. He was feeling surprised.