Вопрос: Read the text and answer the questions. 
1 What kind of conflict was it (a conflict between adults, a conflict between children. 
a conflict between a child and the parents ? 
2 Who started the conflict? 
3 What was the subject of the conflict? 
Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. 
"Out to the hoghouse," replied Mrs Arable. "Some pigs were born last night." 
"I don't see why he needs an ax." continued Fern, who was only eight. 
"Well," said her mother, "one of the pigs is a runt. It's very small and weak, and it will never amount to anything. So your father has decided to do away with it." 
"Do away with it?" shouted Fern. "You mean kill it? Just because it's smaller than the others?" 
"Don't yell. Fern!" Mrs Arable said. "Your father is right. The pig would probably die anyway'' 
Fern pushed a chair out of the way and ran outdoors. TTie grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were 
sopping by the time she caught up with her father. "Please don't kill it!" she sobbed. "It's unfair." Mr Arable stopped walking. 
"Fern," he said gently,"you will have to learn to control yourself." 
"Control myself?" yelled Fern. "This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself." Tears ran down her cheeks and she took hold of the ax and tried to pull it out of her father's hand. 
"Fern,"said Mr Arable,"I know more about raising pigs than you do. A weakling makes trouble. Now run along!" 
"But it's unfair." cried Fern."The pig couldn't help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?" 
Mr Arable smiled. "Certainly not," he said, looking down at his daughter with love. "But this is different. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another." 
"I see no difference," replied Fern, still hanging on to the ax. "This is the most terrible case of injustice I ever heard of." 
A queer look came over John Arable's face. He seemed almost ready to cry himself. 
'All right" he said."You go back to the house and I will bring the runt when I come in. I'll let you start it on a bottle, like a baby Then you'll see what trouble a pig can be." 
When Mr Arable returned to the house half an hour later, he carried a carton under his arm. Fern was upstairs changing her sneakers. The kitchen table was set for breakfast, and the room smelled of coffee, bacon, damp plaster, and wood smoke from the stove. 
"Put it on her chair!" said Mrs Arable. Mr Arable set the carton down at Fern's place. Then he walked to the sink and washed his hands and dried them on the roller towel. 
Fern came slowly down the stairs. Her eyes were red from crying. As she approached her chair, the carton wobbled, and there was a scratching noise. Fern looked at her father. Then she lifted the lid of the carton. There, inside, looking up at her, was the newborn pig. It was a white one. The morning light shone through its ears, turning them pink. 
"He's yours," said Mr Arable. "Saved from an untimely death. And may the good Lord forgive me for this foolishness."
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Ответы:
1. I think the conflict described in this text was a conflict between the child and the parents (Я думаю, что конфликт, описанный в этом тексте, был конфликтом между ребенком и родителями).
2. It seems to me that the daughter. Fern started the conflict with her father, because she was very angry with him (Мне кажется, что дочка. Ферн начала конфликт с отцом, потому что она была очень зла на него).
3. Fern was very angry, because her father wanted to kill one of the newborn pigs as it was very small and weak. Fern's parents thought that the small pig would die anyway, but Fern was strongly against killing the pig. She was shouting, crying and trying to persuade her father not to do that. At first he just said that he knew more than she did and didn't agree, but finally Fern proved her father that she was right and it was greatly unjust to kill the pig only because he was smaller than the others. Fern's father agreed with Fern and brought the small pig to the house and let Fern take care of it and even feed it from the bottle (Ферн была очень зла, потому что ее отец хотел убить одного из новорожденных поросят, так как он был очень маленьким и слабым. Родители Ферн думали, что маленькая свинья умрет в любом случае, но Ферн была категорически против убийства свиньи. Она кричала, плакала и пыталась убедить отца не делать этого. Сначала он просто сказал, что он знал больше, чем она и не согласен, но в конце концов Ферн доказал отцу, что она была права, и это было в значительной степени несправедливо, чтобы убить свинью только потому, что он был меньше, чем другие. Отец Ферн согласился с Ферн и принес небольшую свинью домой, и дал Ферн позаботиться о нем и даже кормить его из бутылки.).