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Помогите пожалуйста составить краткий пересказ текста Room for one more /by Alvin SchwartzA man named Joseph Blackwell came to Philadelphia on a business trip. He stayed with friends in the big house they owned outside the city. That night they had a good time visiting. But when Blackwell went to bed, he tossed and turned and couldn’t sleep. Sometime during the night he heard a car turn into the driveway. He went to the window to see who was arriving at such a late hour. In the moonlight, he saw a long black hearse filled with people.The driver of the hearse looked up at him. When Blackwell saw his weird, hideous face, he shuddered. The driver called to him, «There is room for one more.» Then he waited for a minute or two, and then he drove off.In the morning Blackwell told his friends what had happened. «You were dreaming,» they said.«I must have been,» he said,» but it didn’t seem like a dream.»After breakfast, he went into Philadelphia. He spent the day high above the city in one of the new office buildings there.Late in the afternoon he was waiting for an elevator to take him back down to the street. But when it arrived, it was very crowded. One of the passengers looked out and called to him. «There is room for one more,» he said. It was the driver of the hearse.«No thanks,» Blackwell said. «I’ll get the next one.»The doors closed, and the elevator started down. There was a shrieking and screaming, then the sound of a crash. The elevator had fallen to the bottom of the shaft. Everyone aboard was killed

Answer 1

A man named Joseph Blackwell was in Philadelphia on a business trip. He lived with friends in a big house. Sometime during the night, Joseph Blackwell heard a car pull into the driveway. In the moonlight he saw the hearse. The driver shouted at him, " there's room for one more."But then he left."

In the morning, Blackwell told his friends what had happened. "You dreamed," they said.

After Breakfast he went to Philadelphia. After work, he called the Elevator. But when it arrived, it was crowded. One of the passengers said there was room For one more. It was the driver of the hearse.

"No, thank you," Blackwell said.

The doors closed and the Elevator began to descend. The Elevator fell to the bottom of the shaft. All on Board were killed

Answer 2

Joseph Blackwell, a man on a business trip, stayed with friends in a large house outside Philadelphia. Unable to sleep, he heard a car arriving late at night and looked out the window to see a hearse filled with people. The driver, with a weird and hideous face, called out to him, saying there was room for one more. Blackwell dismissed it as a dream but shared the incident with his friends the next morning.

Later, Blackwell went into Philadelphia and spent the day in an office building. In the afternoon, while waiting for an elevator to descend, he encountered the same hearse driver among the crowded passengers. The driver called out to him again, offering room for one more. Sensing something amiss, Blackwell declined and opted to wait for the next elevator. As the doors closed, he heard screams and a crash—the elevator plummeted to the bottom, resulting in the death of everyone inside, including the hearse driver.