Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the
best answer to each question among A, B or C, marking the answer on your answer
sheet.
The Story of St. Valentine
The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars in foreign lands, so he
needed a big and strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers. Claudius thought
that this was so because the men wanted to stay at home and be with their wives and children
instead of fight in wars.
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Claudius thought of an awful solution to his problem. He decided to cancel all
marriages! No one in all of Rome could get married. Claudius thought that if the men couldn’t
get married, they would ignore the women, forget about family and children and want to be
soldiers.
Valentine, who was a priest in a small church in Rome, believed that God wanted
people to live together and have children. He also thought that it would be a sin if people lived
together without being married. So he disobeyed the Emperor’s orders and secretly and
illegally continued to marry couples! He performed the weddings in secret places, so that the
Roman soldiers would not find out.
But after some time they did find out. Valentine was arrested and brought before the
Emperor. The Emperor thought that Valentine was a well spoken and wise young man, and
encouraged him to stop being a Christian and become a loyal Roman. However, Valentine did
not agree to give up his religious faith and his beliefs. So he was sent to prison until he could
be executed. While he was in prison, he sent out letters to his friends and asked them to pray
for him. He didn’t want his cause to die with him, so he encoded the message by writing
‘Remember your Valentine’ at the end of each letter.
Valentine was killed on the 14th or the 24th of February in the year 269 or 270. Today
we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day on February 14th in honor of that brave priest.
Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the
best answer to each question among A, B or C, marking the answer on your answer
sheet.
The Story of St. Valentine
The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars in foreign lands, so he
needed a big and strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers. Claudius thought
that this was so because the men wanted to stay at home and be with their wives and children
instead of fight in wars.
Вариант 1 2
Claudius thought of an awful solution to his problem. He decided to cancel all
marriages! No one in all of Rome could get married. Claudius thought that if the men couldn’t
get married, they would ignore the women, forget about family and children and want to be
soldiers.
Valentine, who was a priest in a small church in Rome, believed that God wanted
people to live together and have children. He also thought that it would be a sin if people lived
together without being married. So he disobeyed the Emperor’s orders and secretly and
illegally continued to marry couples! He performed the weddings in secret places, so that the
Roman soldiers would not find out.
But after some time they did find out. Valentine was arrested and brought before the
Emperor. The Emperor thought that Valentine was a well spoken and wise young man, and
encouraged him to stop being a Christian and become a loyal Roman. However, Valentine did
not agree to give up his religious faith and his beliefs. So he was sent to prison until he could
be executed. While he was in prison, he sent out letters to his friends and asked them to pray
for him. He didn’t want his cause to die with him, so he encoded the message by writing
‘Remember your Valentine’ at the end of each letter.
Valentine was killed on the 14th or the 24th of February in the year 269 or 270. Today
we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day on February 14th in honor of that brave priest.
Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the
best answer to each question, marking the answer on your answer sheet.
The Story of St. Valentine
The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars in foreign lands, so he needed a big and strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers. Claudius thought that this was so because the men wanted to stay at home and be with their wives and children instead of fight in wars.
Claudius thought of an awful solution to his problem. He decided to cancel all marriages! No one in all of Rome could get married. Claudius thought that if the men couldn’t get married, they would ignore the women, forget about family and children and want to be soldiers.
Valentine, who was a priest in a small church in Rome, believed that God wanted people to live together and have children. He also thought that it would be a sin if people lived together without being married. So he disobeyed the Emperor’s orders and secretly and illegally continued to marry couples! He performed the weddings in secret places, so that the Roman soldiers would not find out.
But after some time they did find out. Valentine was arrested and brought before the Emperor. The Emperor thought that Valentine was a well spoken and wise young man, and encouraged him to stop being a Christian and become a loyal Roman. However, Valentine did not agree to give up his religious faith and his beliefs. So he was sent to prison until he could be executed. While he was in prison, he sent out letters to his friends and asked them to pray for him. He didn’t want his cause to die with him, so he encoded the message by writing ‘Remember your Valentine’ at the end of each letter.
Valentine was killed on the 14th or the 24th of February in the year 269 or 270. Today we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day on February 14th in honor of that brave priest.
Claudius II thought that most men didn’t want to become soldiers because they were
afraid of getting killed in the fights.
Valentine didn’t do what the Emperor ordered because it was against his religious
beliefs.
Valentine didn’t do what the Emperor ordered because it was against his religious
beliefs.
