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ing to take the match-box out of my hand. I shivered and shouted loudly. They stepped back but immediately approached me again. I was terribly frightened. I struck a match and quickly moved back along the tunnel. At last I reached the opening into the well. When at last I got out of the well, I fell on my face and did not move for a long time.
2. Answer the questions.
1. What did Time Traveller do early in the morning?
2. What did he see in the tunnel?
3. Whom did he meet there?
4. What did Time Traveller do when he got out of the well?
5. What did the little beings try to do?
3. Retell the extract.
Task 11
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1. Read the extract from "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells, paH VIII.
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THE TIME MACHINE Part VIII
Now I was afraid. I feared the dark nights when there was no moon in the sky. It was not so difficult now to understand that I had been wrong when I supposed that the Upperworld people were the aristocracy and the Morlocks their servants. Maybe it had been so a long time ago, but now all had changed. Suddenly I remembered the meat which I had seen in the Underworld. At last the real state of things became clear to me. These Eloi were simply cattle of the Morlocks. They took care of them, like our farmers take care of their cattle, and supplied them with food and clothes. And in the dark nights they came out
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