IX. Use your active vocabulary in answering the following questions:

1. What can a person thrill with? 2. What is pure wool (silk, water, etc.)? 3. Why is the mountain air so wholesome? 4. What kind of temper would you call serene? 5. When do some people abandon hope? 6. What do you call a place where goods are kept? 7." What do you call a person who can give you any kind of information? 8. When do one's teeth chat­ter? 9. What do you say about a train which travels fast with a rattling noise? 10. What do you do with your test paper after finishing it? 11. What do you usually say if you are so busy that you have not got a single minute to spare? 12. Do you keep your dictionary at hand when preparing your home task? 13. What do you usually say when you couldn't sleep at night? 14. What do you call a person who is clever at deceiving? 15. What do you call the goods made of silver (of iron, of clay)? 16. What beasts do you call ferocious? 17. What can people flush with? 18. What do you do when you hear a knock at the door (your telephone ring, etc.)? 19. What do you call a thriller?

X. Give the English equivalents for:

собака, жестокая жара, свирепый взгляд, ожесточенный спор, яростная борьба

ударить ногой, лягающаяся лошадь, спустить с лестницы, выгнать вон (уволить), закатить скандал

хитрая проделка, ловкий (хитрый) фокус, коварный взгляд

глиняная посуда, скобяные изделия, изделия из серебра

пара ботинок, пара чулок, пара перчаток, пара лоша­дей, счастливая пара, ходить парами

натуральное молоко, чистая кожа, чистая шерсть, чистая наука, по чистой случайности, чистейший вздор, чистое совпадение

безоблачное небо, ясный взгляд, безмятежная улыбка, спокойный характер, безмятежная старость

бросить привычку, бросить курить, бросить жену, оставить (поте­рять) надежду, оставить друга в беде, покинуть свой пост, отказаться от усилий, покинуть тонущий корабль

трепет восторга, дрожь ужаса, страшный (волнующий) рассказ, шарить в темноте, нащупать ключ в кармане, рыться в сумочке, вертеть (мять) в руках шляпу, возиться с замком

снижать цены, снижать зарплату, уменьшить влияние, довести до крайности, довести до нищеты, довести до мини­мума, довести до абсурда, сократить военные расходы, сбавить ско­рость, понизить температуру

иметь про запас, запасать на зиму, отдавать (меха) на хранение, снабдить экспедицию продуктами, придавать чему-л. большое значе­ние, склад, запасы оружия

стучать зубами, болтунья, щебетанье птиц, мчаться с грохотом, отбарабанить урок, погремушка, гремучая змея

ручной работы, иметь под рукой, быть очень занятым, помочь, принять участие, приложить руку к, вручить, подать заявление, прийтись кстати.

XI. Fill in the missing words using the essential vocabulary:

1. __________ to extreme poverty, begging, sometimes going hungry, sometimes sleeping in the park, Hurstwood admitted to himself that the game was up. 2. By _________ consent, it is the prettiest of Scotland’s west coast villages. 3. I knew Blanche and Strickland would only laugh at me if I _________ up a row. 4. So ___________ was the wind that the trees blew down and blocked the roads and railways. 5. Cowperwood had invested nearly all he had in the street railway, he had implicit faith in its future and set great ________ by it. 6. For Lady Diana Spencer, just twenty years old, it was the most ____________ day of her life. She walked down the long red-carpeted aisle of St Paul’s Cathedral a commoner. She returned a Princess. 7. The Education Department threatened the headmaster with a __________ in the staff, which meant more work for those who remained and for himself with perhaps a ___________ salary. 8. “May, can you ________ me a hand with this,” Otley called out. I went to see what he wanted. 9. He wanted to blurt out that he’d like to kill the man who’d been in her flat the previous evening, that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure, that he had hardly ____________ a wink all night, beside himself with jealousy. 10. Aromatherapy uses essential oils extracted from various parts of aromatic plants and trees to promote health of body and ___________ of mind. 11. Hoag stretched his left hand to the wall and ______________ for the switch. 12. Night patrols were started in some rural areas, and they sometimes _____________ burglars or cattle thieves red-handed.