Zadanie 6. (0–5)
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When I was a child I always thought a summer visit to Wyther Grange was a great treat. It was a big, old-fashioned house where my grandma and my aunt lived. I had many beloved places at the Grange, but I liked the attic best. It was a spacious place, filled with unwanted furniture, old trunks and boxes. I was never tired of playing there, dressing up in the old-fashioned dresses and hats, and practising old-time dance steps in front of the high, cracked mirror.
There was one old chest which I could not explore and, like all forbidden things, it possessed a great attraction for me. From what I overheard once, I was sure it had a history. When I grew tired of playing I liked to sit on it, dreaming that one day I would solve the riddle and open the chest to find it full of gold and jewels with which I might bring back my grandmother’s fortune.
I was sitting there one day when my aunt and grandma came up the narrow dark staircase. When they came to the old chest, grandmother knocked the top with her keys.
"I wonder what is in this old chest," she said. "I believe it really should be opened. Maybe the moths got into it through that crack in the lid."
"Why don’t you open it?" my aunt said. "I am sure that one of the keys would fit the lock."
"No. I will not open that chest without Eliza’s permission. I promised that it should never be opened until she came for it. But I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I will write to Eliza and ask her if I may open the chest to see if the moths have got into it."
Later on a letter came to my grandmother; she passed it over the table to my aunt.
"That is from Eliza," she said. " Read the letter; I can’t find my glasses. You don’t need to read it aloud. Just let me know what she says about the chest."
My aunt opened and read the letter and laid it down with a brief sigh.
"This is all she says about the chest: ‘If there wasn’t one very special thing in it, I would ask you to open the chest and burn all its contents. I can’t stand the idea of anyone seeing or touching this thing. So please leave the chest as it is, dear Aunt. It is no matter if the moths do get in.’ That is all," continued my aunt, "and I must confess that I am disappointed. I have always had an almost childish curiosity about that old chest, but my curiosity will not be satisfied, not yet. That ‘one thing’ must be her wedding dress. I have always thought that she locked it away there."
adapted from The Old Chest at Wyther Grange by L.M. Montgomery
6.2. Who imagined that the chest may contain treasure?
A. the author’s grandmother
B. the author’s aunt
C. the author
D. Eliza
''dreaming that one day I would solve the riddle and open the chest to find it full of gold and jewels with which I might bring back my grandmother’s fortune''