5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

A.

at (3 ), for (3 ), on (3) to ( 2), with (1 ), up ( 2)

1) Two of her front teeth were missing but notwithstanding Julia’s offer, repeated for years, to provide her … new ones she would not have them replaced. (Ch.10)

2) But when she was made …… her satisfaction, and Evie had put … her stockings and her shoes, having a few minutes still to spare she sat down … her desk and in her straggling bold hand wrote to Thomas Fennell. (Ch.10)

3) …the bottom of her heart she had a profound contempt …the great ladies and noble lords she met there. (Ch.11)

4) Even Michael, fondly thinking she got her clothes … nothing did not know how much she really spent … them. (Ch.11)

5) She was inclined, especially among the great, to insist … the fact that her father was a vet. (Ch.11)

6) She persuaded him that she had a duty … Michael, and then there was the baby. (Ch.11)

7) Every sleeper was engaged. The only chance was that someone should not turn … at the last moment. (Ch.12)

8) If only I knew beforehand that they were going to take liberties … me I’d … least ask … their cards. (Ch.12)

B.

1) The boss … least insisted … being present at all the interviews.

2) Richard turned … on Christmas Eve with Tony.

3) The government was not in a position to provide them … food.

4) Businessmen spend enormous amounts … advertisements of their products.

5) Small wonder that many voters have contempt … their politicians.

6) You had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing, without taking liberties … the truth.

7) She never could seem to do anything right or … his satisfaction.

at, for, on , to, with, up

6. Match the synonyms:

clear up in a flash in the flesh have the cheek get on laugh at be taken aback

be shocked get older mock at in person be rude tidy suddenly

7. Guess the word or word combination by its definition.

   a) as blue as the devil b) blackmail c) common sense d) humiliate e) elope f) in for a penny in for a pound g) a lump in the throat h) put-up job

   1.say or do smth which makes others feel ashamed or stupid 2. intend to finish doing smth. that has been started 3. to go away secretly to get married 4. an event or situation that has been secretly planned in order to trick smb. 5. feeling very sad, in a bad mood 6. to make someone give money or obey you by threatening to tell people embarrassing information about them 7. the feeling when the person is going to cry 8.the ability to use judgment and make sensible decisions

8. Translate into Russian:

1. On the contrary, they all looked rather taken-aback at being addressed as though they were five years old.

2. Whoever wrote the screenplay for the film took great liberties with the original text of the novel.

3. That's really phony; a put-up job if I ever saw one. No put-up job is clever enough to fool me.

4. This not only defies the logic of what we are taught about spirits in Church, it defies common sense.

5. What does it mean to say that some diseases are ' genetically inherited ‘?

6. Strange how that name sent a thrill through him, stirred his blood!

7. Can there be any more defeated, disgraced and utterly humiliated political position in recent history than support for the invasion of Iraq?

8. Yet, visiting Strasbourg yesterday to address the European Parliament for the first time, he became somewhat tongue-tied.

9. In the calendar of criminal offences blackmail was one of the ugliest and most vicious because it involved what one found so often, attempted murder of the soul.

10. Unfortunately, the Faculty cannot help unless the difficulties are produced by an unforeseen emergency or change of circumstances.