Henry was from the United States and he had come to London for a holiday.

One day he was not feeling well, so he went to the clerk at the desk of his hotel and said, 'I want to see a doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one?

The clerk looked in a book and then said, 'Dr. Kenneth Grey, 61010.

Henry said, "Thank you very much. Is he expensive?'

'Well,' the clerk answered, he always charges his patients two pounds for their first visit to him, and £1.50 for later visits.

Henry decided to save 50p, so when he went to see the doctor, he said, I've come again, doctor.

For a few seconds the doctor looked at his face carefully without saying anything. Then he nodded and said, 'Oh, yes.' He examined him and then said, 'Everything's going as it should do. Just continue with the medicine I gave you last time.'

A         Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)? Write Tor F.

1. Henry wanted the clerk at the hotel to send a good doctor to his room.
2. The clerk gave him the name and address of a doctor,
3. Henry wanted to know how much it cost to go to him.
4. The first visit to the doctor cost less than later visits.
5. Henry tried to make the doctor believe that he had been to him before.
6. The doctor knew that he had not seen Henry before.

B         Answer these questions:

1. Why did Henry have to ask someone else for the name of a doctor?
2. What did the clerk do?
3. What did Henry ask him then?
4. And what did the clerk answer?
5. What did Henry decide?
6. What did he do?
7. What did he say to the doctor?
8. And what was the doctor's answer?

C        Put one word in each empty place. You will find all the correct words in the story.

Dr. Brown is a kind man. He left England to work in a foreign country when he was 25. Some of his ... are quite poor, and he ... them very little. And when they need ... medicines, he sometimes even pays for them himself. One day a... who worked in a small office brought him his son. He was very ill, and he knew that only very expensive medicines could ... him from dying. Dr. Brown ... the boy carefully. 'Well, the father said, 'what have you found, doctor? Will he be all right?" The doctor ... without looking at him. He thought for a minute and then said, 'Yes, he'll be all right. I'm going to give you some medicine for him. He must ... taking it for a month. We don't want him to die, do we?