Miss Martha Meacham kept a little bakery.Miss Martha was forty, and had two thousand dollars in a bank,two false teeth and a kind heart.Many people have married who had less possibilities to do so than Miss Martha. Two or three times a week a man came into her shop to buy bread and very soon she began to show interest in him.He was a man of middle age with spectacles and a short brown beard.His clothes were poor,but he looked clean and had very good manners. Once Miss Martha saw red and brown stains on his fingers.She was sure then that he was an artist and very poor one.Of course he lived in a little room , where he painted pictures and ate stale bread , and thought of good things in Miss Martha's bakery.Often when Miss Martha sat down to eat her good dinner, she thought about the poor artist and wanted him to share her meal instead of eating his stale bread. Miss Martha, as you have been told, had a very kind hearюTo be an artist-and to live on stale bread!But a genius often has to struggle before it is recognized. How good would it be for art if a genius was helped by two thousand dollars in the bank, a bakery, and a kind heart too – but these were only dreams. Often now when he came, he talked for some time with Miss Martha.And he continued buying stale bread, never anything else. She thought he was looking thin.She wanted to add something good to eat to his bread, but she had no courage to do it.She knew about artists' pride. Miss Martha began to wear her best blue silk blouse almost every the room behind the shop she cooked some mixture for her face.
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5вопросов к тексту или какому-нибудь из предложений 1) how would you like to live three hundred and sixty kilometers above the earth, flying at almost thirty thousand kilometres an hour through dark, airless space? well, that's exactly how the astronauts working on the giant international space station (iss) live. 'cool! ' you might say. maybe. let's take a look at what it's really like to live in space. 2) living in zero gravity means doing lots of things differently. first of all, you can forget about having a nice hot shower in the morning, as the water droplets would simply float away. astronauts have to use a vacuum hose to wash with. also, when muscles don't have to work against gravity as they do here on earth, they go soft. so the residents of the iss actually spend 2 hours a day working out on exercise bikes and rowing machines. 3) there's no escape from household chores on the iss. as dangerous bacteria grow quickly in zero gravity, the astronauts clean the whole station every day, which is about the size of a football pitch! also the lack of gravity makes the simplest things in life seem quite weird! take eating for example, to stop their meals floating away, astronauts have to 'post' food packages into a special tray and then strap the tray to their legs. at least there's no washing up to do, though. the astronauts simply put their dirty dishes and rubbish into plastic bags and send them back to earth. 4) when it comes to sleeping, there's no need for a bedroom! the astronauts could sleep anywhere, but they can't risk bumping into any computer controls so they strap themselves into a sleeping bag on the wall. it's a truly relaxing experience, as nothing presses against the skin. it's important to cover your eyes, however, to block out the light of the sun as the sun rises and sets every 45 minutes when you are orbiting the earth. 5) so, when astronauts aren't doing experiments or chores or repairing equipment, do they get any free time? well, a little! they often send emails back home, read books or watch movies, but most of all they like to stare out of the window and take pictures of their real home, earth!
2) Can you forget about having a nice hot shower in the morning?
3) Is there escape from household chores on the ISS?
4) Is there any need for a bedroom?
5) Do astronauts get any free time?