In additio n to thi s. on onegloomymorni ng the landlady
asked me to swit ch off the light intheroom where1 was
havingbreakfast, cl aimin g thatelectric ity in Englandwas
too expensive. On two other occasions, shecameinto my
room in the morning and turned the ligh t off beforeeven
saying ' Good morning'.CI
Dun ng. tI1 CEn gI' h 15 C'vI ,'\Wa r L 1 yme Re gis re main ed a sta• cunch
suppor te r 0 f Crornweu,1\ a nd was besieged by royalisrh 5 000rorces.
Heavi.\youtnumbe red t, h e menofLvmeheldbac k te,h -f
stron g for ce of Prince Rupe rt until , after two mont 5 0
skirm ishes. the royalist forcesgaveup an dNarrativ es andconnecting words • Module3ACharlie, a young New York tax consultant
on theverg e of promotion, walks outof
a dinerwit hout payingf orhis lunch. He is
challenged on the s t reet by a st rangegirl
Ina blackWIg ,reminisce nt ofthesilent
movie st ar Louise Brook s. Sheoffers him
aliftback tohisoffice,but once he is in
her car shet hrowshis port ablet elephone
out of the window, puts her footdown
and heads intot he Holl andTunnel and
t hed istan trea ches of New Jersey. He i s so
startl edhedoes noteven noticethat she
rob s aliquor store o n the irjourney.3A Narrativesandconnectingwords
1.0 Telling thestoryofatown
In mos t lines of this text,there is one unnecessaryword .It is either grammatically
incorrect ordoes notfit in w ith th e senseof the text. Find theunnec essary words
and write themin the margin. Somelines are cor rect.Indicate them with a
t ick(,f). The exercise begins with threeexamples (0).Ca mb ri dgeo Ca mbridgewa..')importantlong be fore the Universityhas existe d. In the
o first cent u ryBeanIronAgetribe builta settle me nt onwhatis nowknown
o C astl e Hill. This site wastak enoverhyth e Romans arou nd40 AD ;
1 theSaxonshadfollowed ,the n theNormansunder\ Villiamthe Conq ue ror,
2 who he raise d acast le ona stee pmound as a basefor fighting th e Saxon
3 rebels at Ely.The eart hworksofWilliam's cas tle ar e stillstand.and
4 ElyC at he dral i svisib lefromth e to p on a clea rday..5 The firstscholars didn't there arr ive until 1209 ,andanoth e r7.5years
6 passedhe for e H ugh de Balshamfoun dedPeterhnuse , thefirst college. Five
7 morecollegeswere hein gesta blished in the first halfof th e 14thce ntury,
8 the na nothe r tenduringthe 15th and 16th ce ntu rieswere.9 HenryVI tooko ff nearly aquarte ro f th e medi eval city fo rKing's
10 College;afte rllenrvVII Iunitedtwo exist ing college sto mak e T rinity
11 grande nough torivalC hrist Chu rch inO xford. But th e sewomen didn 't have
12 apropercolle gebuild inguntilGirtonwas firstfounde d in 1 869.h as
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