2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.

Depress, increase, regularity, resolutely, reluctant, constantly, despair, cheap, significant, casual, gain, permanence.

3.Answer the questions.

1. How did Dolly’s marriage affect Anson?

2. What made a great impression on Anson?

3. Did Anson believe in marriage? Why?

4. What did Anson decide to do concerning Aunt Edna’s intrigue?

5. What did Edna and Anson speak about?

6. What did they decide to do?

7. What happened to Cary Sloane?

4.Which sentences are true?

1. Dolly’s marriage as well as Paula’s one depressed him very much.

2. Anson was glad that he was made a partner in the firm.

3. Now Anson’s responsibilities increased and he couldn’t devote his time to helping his friends.

4. Anson appreciated his freedom most of all.

5. Uncle Robert’s marriage went astray and that made him very unhappy.

6. Anson wasn’t sure he would be able to handle Edna’s affair and decided not to interfere.

7. Edna knew Anson’s hostility to her and was prepared for his direct approach to the matter.

8. Anson wanted to break up Edna’s friendship with Sloane because he cared too much for Edna’s reputation.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.

1. Edna carried on an open intrigue with Cary Sloane.

2. Anson gave them his terms.

3. Dolly married.

4. Anson was made a partner in the firm.

5. Cary Sloane’s body was found on the lower shelf of a pillar of Queensboro Bridge.

6. Anson, Edna and Sloane dined at a small French restaurant.

7. Sloane walked suddenly off down the street and Anson tapped a dozing taxi-driver on the arm.

8. Anson traced down the sources of the scandal so that there should be no possibility of mistake.

9. A life-insurance company refused to issue Anson a policy.

10. Paula got divorced.

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

1. What had been done at first through pride and superiority had become a habit and a passion.

2. He came to take a vicarious pleasure in happy marriages.

3. When Uncle Robert married her she didn’t have a penny.

4. Anson gave them his terms.

5. If that’s the case it better be explained to Uncle Robert.

6. Oh, haven’t you done enough to us one day?

7.Find evidence to prove that

1. Dolly’s marriage affected Anson in a different way.

2. Anson was always ready to give a helping hand to those who needed it.

3. Anson no longer rejoiced in his freedom.

4. Anson wanted to save Uncle Robert’s marriage.

5. Edna didn’t want any scandal.

8.Describe

1. Uncle Robert’s wife.

2. Aunt Edna’s intrigue.

3. Anson’s luncheon with Edna.

9.Comment on the following.

1. Anson had a foretaste of the sensation of a man of forty.

2. At the Yale Club Anson was a figure, a personality, and a tendency of his class.

3. Like all men who spring from a happy and successful marriage, Anson believed in it passionately.

4. Anson was learning the rarity, in a single life, of encountering true emotion.

5. … a feeling that was more than personal, a reversion toward that family solidarity on which he (Anson) had based his pride.

6. You are old enough to know better.

7. There would be appeal to his chivalry, then to his pity, finally to his superior sophistication.

8. The maid got hold of the wrong end of the thing.

9. Sloane’s father was a notorious fundamentalist.

VII

1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.

to bring about to distort to retire to a select Episcopal heaven to chaperone shortcoming to diminish obsequies to be past all counting to be drawn deep into domesticity to exorcise to make a resolution alumni to be out of order

to take to drink to cut at smb diminuative cuspidor to immure to rove to vanish to flutter poignancy immaculate cushion esoteric treachery to get through the preliminaries