4.Which sentences are true?

1. Paula felt a tremendous pride in Anson. He was humorous, reckless, gentle, attractive, and understanding.

2. When Anson went abroad Paula missed him enormously.

3. Anson fell out of love with Paula.

4. Though Paula made certain behavioristic demands she definitely didn’t want to break the engagement.

5. The combination of Anson’s influential family connection, his intelligence, and his physical energy couldn’t help him to make a successful career.

6. Anson’s engagement with Paula was broken.

7. Anson liked amusements and was extremely good at entertaining.

8. Anson enjoyed arranging things, and his former classmates often turned to him for help.

9. Paula wasn’t ready to accept Anson’s proposal to marry him because he wasn’t quite a safe man.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.

1. Anson was ordered abroad.

2. Paula was seen together with Lowell Thayer.

3. Anson was sent to hospital with pneumonia.

4. Paula was engaged to Thayer and they were going to be married in Boston.

5. Anson came to New York.

6. Paula cried embracing Anson.

7. Anson, Paula and Thayer played bridge.

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

1.I feel that I want to die.

2.Anson was too acute to wonder.

3.I’ll double three spades.

4.You could cut it with a knife.

7.Find evidence to prove that

1.Paula was confused by Anson’s incongruities.

2.Anson was jealous.

3. Anson missed Paula.

4.Anson was sure that Paula still loved him.

5.Paula loved Anson.

6.Anson was depressed.

8.Describe

1.Paula’s confused feelings to Anson.

2.Anson as two alternating personalities.

3.Anson’s business life.

4.The evening at the Everglades Club.

9.Comment on the following.

1. Anson’s despair was helpless before his pride and his knowledge of himself.

2. He had one of those invaluable minds with partitions in it.

3. He needed to commit their destinies to no practical enigma.

4. Anson carried on his work without a break – rather with a fear of what would happen if he stopped.

V

1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.

to be in charge of in effect through a complication to back smb to blunder to be up to smb callous notorious facet an abandon to indulgence infatuation to inquire into smth to question smth a propensity to dissipation to precipitate

to hem smb in to grant a place in the social edifice contemptuous decoy timorous ruse atonement opaque to catch sight of smth to overwhelm imminent to wink to blur abomination solicitous

2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.

Weakness, neglect, decline, scarcely, conceal, abruptly, spaciousness, engulf, dedication, invoke, delight, torture.