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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – LEV TOLSTOY- SHORT STORY 2

LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY-2 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY A LOST OPPORTUNITY Then came Peter to Him and said Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him till seven times . . . . So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. --ST. MATTHEW xviii. 21-35. In a certain village there lived a peasant by the name of Ivan Scherbakoff. He was prosperous strong and vigorous and was considered the hardest worker in the whole village. He had three sons who supported themselves by their own labor. The eldest was married the second about to be married and the youngest took care of the horses and occasionally attended to the plowing. The peasant s wife Ivanovna was intelligent and industrious while her daughter-in-law was a simple quiet soul but a hard worker. There was only one idle person in the household and that was Ivan s father a very old man who for seven years had suffered from asthma and who spent the greater part of his time lying on the brick oven. Ivan had plenty of everything--three horses with one colt a cow with calf and fifteen sheep. The women made the men s clothes and in addition to performing all the necessary household labor also worked in the field while the men s industry was confined altogether to the farm. What was left of the previous year s supply of provisions was ample for their needs and they sold a quantity of oats sufficient to pay their taxes and other expenses. Thus life went smoothly for Ivan. The peasant s next-door neighbor was a son of Gordey Ivanoff called Gavryl the Lame. It once happened that Ivan had a quarrel with him but while old man Gordey was yet alive and Ivan s father was the head of the household the two peasants lived as good neighbors should. If the women of one house required the use of a sieve or pail they borrowed it from the inmates of the other house. The same condition of affairs existed between the men. They lived more like one family the one dividing his