Задание Nº 1:

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

Complete the text with the words below. anyone / nobody / everybody / everything / somebody / sometime / everything / somebody / somebody / nobody

Pip lives with his sister and her husband. When he is a young boy, he meets

an escaped criminal and helps him to hide from

. Pip is

poor and

thinks he is special, but a rich

old woman in his

village, Miss Havisham, invites him to her house.

Miss Havisham lives with a

girl called Estella, and Pip falls in love with her because he has never met

as beautiful. Sadly, Estella doesn't love

him and Pip grows up poor and

miserable. When he is older, Pip gets some very good news:

has given him lots

of money and now he is rich. He moves to London and starts a new life and

is

very good for him. Pip thinks the money has come from Miss Havisham, but he is wrong, it has come from

else. The criminal he

helped as a boy has given him the money and now needs Pip's help again. To make matters worse, Estella has married

else. Pip

goes to visit Miss Havisham, but there is a terrible fire and

can save her and she

dies. A very unhappy Pip tries to help the criminal leave England, but the police find him and he is sent to prison

• seems to be

going wrong for Pip, but he moves to Europe and starts a business. Many years later he returns home and meets Estella again. At the end of the novel they are friends again and there is the hope that,

in the future, they will

get married.