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A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 3
Before you read
1 Complete the sentences using
the words in the box.
trembling misery
cruelty injustice
a) It was an that poor
people had to pay high taxes.
b) The marquis showed violence and
to his people.
c) The woman cried tears of
and unhappiness.
d) The small child was shaking and
with fear.
2 Read pages 16 to 18 and correct the factual mistakes in the
sentences.
a) Doctor Manette and his daughter Lucie live in a pretty suburb of Paris.
b) Doctor Manette often talks to Lucie about his time in the French prison.
c) Charles Darnay’s father was a French aristocrat who was loved by the
local people.
d) Charles Darnay moves to England to learn English in Cambridge.
e) A man called Gabelle buys the Evrémonde Castle from Charles Darnay.
f) Gabelle makes the people of Evrémonde pay high rents.
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