Экзаменационный (типовой) материал ОГЭ / Английский / 13-19 задание / 57

Baboon Named Jack This story happened in the late 1880s in the Republic of South Africa, and even though it is hard to believe, there are photographs and documents that prove it is true.
This story is about a monkey – a baboon called Jack who worked at a railway station in the town of Uitenhage, not far from Cape Town. James Edwin 'Jumper' Wide was a signalman who worked for the South African railways. He got his nickname 'Jumper' for his dangerous habit of jumping from one train to another while doing his job. Once he missed and fell under a moving train. He lost his legs and his job. But he didn't want to give up. He made himself wooden legs and got his job back, which was much more difficult for him
to do with wooden legs.
One day he saw a trained baboon at the market. The monkey was pushing a trolley full of fruit. Jumper Wide had an idea. He bought the baboon from its owner and called him Jack. Now, instead of walking half a mile from his home to the train station, Jumper Wide rode in a trolley that Jack was pushing.
One of the things Jumper Wide had to do at the station was to give a key to the train drivers. When a locomotive came to the station, its driver sounded four whistles, and Wide went to the train to deliver the key. Jack had watched it happen a few times, and one day, when he heard the four whistles, the baboon took the key, ran over and handed it to the surprised driver. From that time on, it became his job.
Next Wide decided to teach Jack how to change the railway signals that showed the trains which way to go. One had to listen to how many whistles the train engineers blew, and depending on the number, change the signals. Jack learnt how to do it surprisingly quickly and was soon doing it for Jumper Wide all the time, without making any mistakes.
Once, a rich lady passenger was looking out of the train window when she saw a horrible picture: a monkey was changing signals on the railway tracks! She realized how dangerous it was and wrote an angry letter to the railway authorities, who at first didn't believe her, but then learnt the truth. Jumper Wide lost the job again. Later the railway authorities sent an inspector who examined Jack's knowledge and skills and was extremely impressed with the brilliant monkey! Jumper Wide and Jack both got their jobs now. From that time on Jack had the official title of a Signalman and received 20 cents a day as a salary.
Jack worked at the railway for nine years until his death. He and Jumper were best friends.

13. There is no way to make sure that this story really happened.