Text 2: John Edgar Hoover

 

John Edgar Hoover was born in 1885. He was a native of Washington, D.C. He went to school there and then to George Washington University where he studied law. As a student he was brilliant and had a great choice after graduating from the University. But Hoover got a job in the Department of Justice. Very soon they sent him to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That was in 1924 when J.E. Hoover was forty. For many years he was the head of the FBI and made it the world’s greatest law enforcement organizations. He opened a technical and scientific laboratory, identification division, set up a lot of training schools. He was also the initiator of the National Police Academy where he taught as the chief instructor. John Hoover had a photographic mind: he called agents by their first names, he remembered all investigations and their results. He said: “The main task of the FBI is the protection of people against crime”. As to his personal life, he had no time to get married. When he was not busy with his service in the FBI, he usually went fishing or hunting. Hoover played tennis very well. He also liked good music.

Exercise 13 . Answer the questions:

1.When and where was John Edgar Hoover born?

2.Where and what did he study?

3.What a job did John Hoover get after the University?

4.What was his next job?

5.What new did he make in the FBI?

6.What was his personal life?

7.What did he like?

 

 

     

3.   / i:/

A sailor when to sea,

To see what he could see.

And all he could see,

Was sea, sea, sea.

            

4.    /I- i:/            

Mary Midling has a pig.

Not very little and not very big.

Not very pink and not very green.

Not very dirty and not very clean.

             

5.       ./ e/

We wonder whether the wether

Will weather the weather,

Or whether the weather

The wether will kill.

            

 

 6.  / Q /       

A black cat

Sat on a mat

And ate a fat rat.

         

 7. /Ã/       

Never trouble trouble

Till trouble troubles you.

It only doubles troubles,

And trouble others too.

          

8. / - Q- I-à /

 Swan swam over the sea-

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again-

Well swum swan.

        

 

 9. / Q- :/          

Humpty Dumpty

Sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty

Made a great fall.

All the king’s horses

And all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty

Together again.

            

10.  //

Upon my word of honour,

 As I went to Bonner,

I met a pig

Without a wig.

Upon my word of honour.

 

11.

The natives of New England are often very uncommunicative. A traveller engaged a certain villager, Gabriel Gates by name, in the following conversation:

“Who owns this house?”, he asked.

“Moggs”, replied Gates.

“What in the world is it built on?”

“Logs”, answered Gates.

“Any animals hereabouts?”

“Frogs”, said Gates.

“What sort of soil have you?”

“Bogs,” said Gates.

“What do you live on chiefly?”

“Hogs”, said Gates.

“Have you any friends?”

“Dogs”, said Gates.

12. /Î:/

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Just in the middle of her forehead.

When it was good,

She was very, very good.

When it was bad,

She was horrid.

 

13. / - Ã/

Solomon Grundy

Born on Monday,

Christened on Tuesday,

Married on Wednesday,

Took ill on Thursday,

Worse on Friday,

Died on Saturday,

Buried on Sunday .

That was the end of Solomon Grundy.

        

14. /aU/

 I went downtown

To meet Mrs Brown.

She gave me a nickel,

To buy me a pickle.

The pickle was sour,

She gave me a flower.

The flower was dead,

She gave me a thread.

The tread was thin,

She gave me a pin.

 

15. /aI/

I think mice are rather nice.

Their tails are long,

Their faces small,

They don’t have any chins at all.

Their teeth are white.

They run about the house at night.

They nibble things

They shouldn’t touch.

And no one seems 

To like them much.

But I think mice

Are nice.

 

16. /aI/

As I was going to St.Ives,

I met a man with several wives.

Every wife had several sacks,

Every sack had several cats,

Every cat had several kits.

Kits, cats, sacks, and wife,

How many were going to St.Ives?

 

17. / aI - eI /

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie.

Kissed the girls and made them cry;

When the girls came out to play,

Georgie Porgie ran away.

 

18. /e«- Q -i:-«V-eI -aI-aV/

Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow;

And everywhere the Mary went,

The lamb was sure to go.

 

It followed her to school one day,

That was against the rule:

It made the children laugh and play

To see a lamb at school.

 

And so the teacher turned it out,

But still it lingered near,

And waited patiently about,

Till Mary did appear.

 

-Why does the lamb love Mary so?

The eager children cry;

-Cause Mary loves the lamb, you know,

The teacher did reply.

 

 19. A PIN /aI- Ã/

 See a pin and let it lie,

Sure to want one before you die.

See a pin and pick it up,

All the day you’ll have good luck.

 

20. AN OWL /aV- «V/

 The Wise Old Owl

 Sat in a oak.

The more he heard,

The less he spoke,

The less he spoke,

The much he saw.

Why doesn’t we

As this old Owl.

 

 

21. GREETINGS /w /

 

I wish you health but not with wealth,

I wish you work and worry,

I wish you, what I wish myself,
A share in man’s sad story.

I wish you, on that next-door day

We coax the world to spin our way

A share in all its glory.

 

 

23. I went downtown,

To meet Ms Brow.

She gave me a nickel,

To buy me a pickle.

The pickle was sour,

She gave me a flower.

The flower was dead,

She gave me a thread.

The thread was thin,

She gave me a pin.

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24.Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor,

Rich man, poorman, beggar man, thief. 

 

25. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

  For want of a horse the rider was lost.

  For want of a rider the battle was lost.   

  For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

  And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.

 

26. Spades for digging, pens for writing,

Ears for hearing, teeth for biting,

  Eyes for seeing, legs for walking,

  Tongues for tasting and talking.

 

 

27. Thomas thinks of terrible things,

  And to the troubled teacher brings

Things that sing, and things that sting,

Things which swing,

and things which cling,

Things that ping, and ring, and fling, 

And of all these things thinks nothing.

 

28 .She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore;

The shells she sells are sea-shore,I’m sure.

  So if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,

  Then, I’m sure, she sells sea-shore shells.

 

29. My father, he left me, s just as he was able,

One bowl, one bottle, one table,

Two bowls, two bottles, two tables,

  Three bowls, three bottles, three tables…

 

30. A pin has a head, but no hair.

A clock has a face, but no mouth there.

Needles have eyes, but they cannot see;

A fly has a trunk, without lock or key.

 

 

31. There was and Old Man in a tree;

Who was horribly bored by a Bee.

When they said: ”Does it buzz?”

He replied,” Yes, it does!

It’s a regular brute of a Bee”.     

 

32.There was an Old Man of the Border,

Who lived in the utmost disorder.

          He danced with a cat,

          And made tea in his hat,

Which vexed all the folks on the Border.

 

 

33. There was and Old Man of Peru,

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.

  He awoke in the night

  In a terrible fright

And found it was perfectly true!

 

34.There was a Young Lady of Niger,

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;

      They returned from the ride

      With the Lady inside,

And the smile on the face of a tiger.

 

35. There was and Old Man of the East,

Who gave all his children a feast;

     But they all ate so much,

      And their conduct was such,

That it killed that Old Man of the East.

 

36.There was an Old Man of the West,

Who never could get any rest;

        So they set him to spin,

        On his nose and his chin,

Which cured that Old Man of the West.

 

37. There was An Old Man of Peru,

Who watched his wife making a stew;

    But once by mistake,

    In a stove she did bake

That unfortunate man of Peru.

 

 

38. There was an Old Man of Berlin,

Whose form was uncommonly thin;

         Till he once, by mistake,

          Was mixed up in a cake,

.So they baked him up in a cake.

 

39.There was an Old Person of Dutton,

Whose head was so small as a button;

        So to make it look big,

        He purchased a wig,

And rapidly rushed about Dutton.

 

40.There was and Old Man of Corfu,

Who never knew what he should do;

      So rushed up and down,

       Till the sun made him brown,

That bewildered Old Man of Corfu.

 

41.There was an Old Man on some rocks,

Who shut his wife up in a box.

     When she said, ”Let me out!”

     He exclaimed, ”Without doubt,

You will pass all your life in that box.”

 

42.There was a Young Lady whose eyes

Were unique as to colour and size;

    When she opened them wide,

    People all turned aside,

And started away in surprise.

 

43.There was and Old Man, who said, ”Well !

Will nobody answer this bell?

    I have pulled day and night,

Till my hair has grown white,

But nobody answered this bell!”

      

 

44.There was a Young Girl of Australia,

Whose temper was frantic and furious,

      She used to throw eggs

      At her grandmother’s legs,

A habit unpleasant but curious.

 

 

45. There was an Old Person of Dean,

Who dined on one Pea and one Bean;

For he said, ”More than that

Would make me too fat”,

That cautious Old Person of Dean.

 

46.There was an Old Man of Thermopylae,

Who never did anything properly,

  But they said, ”If you choose

  To boil eggs in your shoes,

You shall never remain in Thermopylae”.

 

47.There was an Old Man on the Border,

Who lived in the utmost disorder;

  He danced with the cat,

   And made bread in his hat.

Which vexed all the folks on the Border.  

 

 

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