4. Match the words from the left column with their definitions on the right:

   to accumulate	a. to get a new skill or new knowledge by learning it
   to confront	b. to support or encourage something/ to help something to develop/to move someone to a job at a higher level
   to acquire	c. to add or include something as a part of something else
   to share	d. large in amount or degree/important
   to promote	e. to deal with a difficult situation or a problem to be solved
   to discard	f. to give someone a prize or other reward because they have achieved something
   to incorporate	g. a letter, number or symbol that is written, printed
   to award	h. to get more and more of something over a period of time
   to select	i. not able to work or exist together because of basic differences
   incompatible	j. an institution, thing or an animal that existed before a newer but similar one
   forerunner	k. to use or have something at the same time as someone else/to give part of something to someone else
   substantial	l. to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
   characters	m. to choose someone or something from a group

5. Find pairs of verbs with close meaning:

1. to consume	a. to provide
2. to modify	b. to realize/think
3. to perceive	c. to obtain/gain
4. to secure	d. to demand/claim
5. to acquire	e. to change/alter
6. to embrace	f. to absorb
7. to require	g. to decide
8. to determine	h. to accept/include smth.

6. Paraphrase each of the following word combinations with the help of one word:

1. to continue to happen

2. a piece of clothing

3. not able to work or exist together because of basic differences

4. to add or include something as a part of something else

5. to set apart by some superior character or quality

7. Derive adverbs from the following adjectives, translate them into Russian and use them in English sentences of your own:

most reflective

particular incompatible

overwhelming ideal

random equal

unselective basical

8. Insert prepositions (use the text):

a)

to cut ... a pattern

to operate ... a substantial scale

to glance ... the window

to be ... contact

to provide an illustration ...

to come ... use

to grow ... random

to come ... being

to gain culture ... the process of diffusion

to be transmitted ... America ... by way of Spain

to take ... new urgency

to derive a pattern ... the classical civilization

to tie a strip of cloth ... the neck

to pour maple syrup ... cakes

b)

... purpose of convenience

in contrast ...

a bed built ... the pattern

overshoes made ... rubber

... outside the culture

... modern standards

... time

... such a fashion as to produce smth.

... a long period of time

covers made ... cotton

the tendency ... integration

a radical break ... the past

9. Translate into Russian:

1. Once begun, however, the process of culture borrowing became so pervasive that most of the elements of most modern cultures, including our own, originated with other peoples.

2. He goes to the bathroom, whose fixtures are a mixture of European and American inventions, both of recent date.

3. As he absorbs the accounts of foreign troubles he will, if he is a good conservative citizen, thank a Hebrew deity in an Indo-European Language that he is 100 per cent American.

4. While the ideology that they espouse is anything but new, and has been promoted off and on for over 100 years in the United States, it is an ideology that has never secured widespread support.

5. The basic values of American society have been acquisitive, emphasizing the possession of power and prestige by those who have “made it”, and awarding to them a variety of material goods and services.