2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.

Delightful, naive, asleep, confused, agitated, stubborn, sober, hilarious, imprudent, quaint, dreadful.

3.Answer the following questions.

1. What and whom did Paula and her mother visit?

2. What did Paula and Anson decide about marriage?

3. What happened to Anson before the dinner-party?

4. What was Anson’s behaviour like at the dinner-party?

5. What did Mrs. Legendre talk with Anson about?

6. What caused Paula and Anson’s separation?

4.Which sentences are true?

1. Paula and Anson’s immediate marriage was discussed.

2. Paula’s cousin had met Anson and wasn’t surprised when he mumbled his strange information.

3. Paula’s cousin was sure Anson was French and couldn’t speak English.

4. Mrs. Legendre tried to get Hempstead on the phone five times.

5. The next afternoon Anson had a long talk with Mrs. Legendre while Paula sat listening in silence.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.

1. Anson left the Yale Club at a proper time.

2. Anson was determined to save the debris of the evening.

3. Anson talked boisterously and somewhat offensively to the party at large.

4. Anson had a long talk with Mrs. Legendre.

6. Reproduce the situations in which the following sentences are used.

1. Who is funny?

2. Cousin Jo told me Anson was intoxicated.

3. I’ll take care of it, Mother.

4. He said he was brought up in France.

5. I said are you better?

7.Find evidence to prove that

1. The leave spent together with Anson made Paula inspired with the idea of being married immediately.

2. Paula’s cousin was exceptionally naive.

3. Anson was indifferent to any opinion, except Paula’s.

4. Mrs. Legendre was unable to establish any advantage over Anson.

8.Describe the following:

1. Anson’s behavior.

2. Mrs. Legendre

9.Comment on the following:

Neither Anson in his satisfaction nor Paula in her relief realized that the psychological moment had passed forever.

IV

1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.

self-indulgence incongruity imperviousness an old beau to overcome an obstacle a society reporter to be played out to make certain behavioristic demands disdainful abundance to slip into the past precarious save for

to multiply rumors to sprawl opulent to flaw by me! – Я пас! I’ll double three spades! – Я подвоюю 3 піки What was bid? – З чого почали? you could cut it with a knife to commit one’s destiny to enigma with the strain of three years to carry on

2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.

Anxiety, alternating, temporarily, vitality, departure, abundance, secure, recklessly, strain, cordial.

3.Answer the following questions.

1.What happened to Anson when he was abroad?

2.What did a society reporter wait for one evening?

3.What did Anson do in New York?

4.What did Paula write in her letters about?

5.What happened at the Everglades Club?

6.What did Paula wait for?

7.What was Anson sure of?

8.What was the reason for Anson’s depression?