Give the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

проскочить мимо, скучать, уединенное место, на большом расстоянии, не похоже на то, монотонный звук сирены.

Agree or disagree with these statements:

1. Coke felt comfortable in the police car. 2. Coke didn’t guess how the policeman managed to contact the police-headquarters so quickly. 3. The crash of two helicopters interrupted Coke’s thoughts. 4. The two policemen at the road block were amused because it was a busy spot between two hills and there was heavy traffic. 5. The two policemen at the road block didn’t stop the police car which Coke was driving because they wanted to help him. 6. One of the policemen didn’t want to move his car out of the way because he expected Coke to drive the police car.

Answer these questions:

1. How long did Coke drive? 2. How did he feel in the police car? 3. What did he wonder? 4. What article did he remember? 5. Did the detectives like Halls and Baxter have pocket radios, too? 6. What interrupted his thoughts? 7. What were two policemen doing? 8. What did they think when they saw a police car coming towards them? 9. Was the car going to stop? 10. What did the policemen have to do? 11. Why didn’t they stop the car? What was obvious? 12. Did the policemen hesitate and argue before they decided to move back one of the cars? 13. Did they believe that Coke was going to come through their block in a police car? 14. How wide was the gap after one of the policemen moved his car back? 15. Did Coke manage to get through the narrow gap between the cars? 16. In which direction did Coke race?

Translate into English:

А.

Пожилая дама не выглядела испуганной или удивленной. Она сказала: “Извините!” и поставила блюдо на стол. Коук с трудом мог поверить своим ушам. Пожилая дама была глухой, поэтому она не слышала стука в дверь. Коук посмотрел на свою одежду. Его тюремная одежда была такой грязной, что было невозможно сказать, какая это одежда. Коук сказал, что он механик из города. Он приехал чинить грузовик. Дороги такие скользкие, что он свалился со своего мотоцикла. Пожилая дама подала ему горячей воды и мыло, а затем и еду.

Б.

Бакстер вышел из поезда на маленькой станции. На платформе его ожидал детектив. Он пожал руку Бакстера. Затем он представился. Он сказал, что Скотланд-Ярд позвонил им и велел встретить Бакстера. Бакстер потратил мало времени на формальное знакомство. Он сказал, что Коук сбежал из тюрьмы более, чем 24 часа тому назад. Он хотел поймать его раньше, чем пройдут следующие сутки. Холлсу было любопытно, почему Скотланд-Ярд так заинтересован в Коуке. Бакстер ответил, что Коук не был обычным заключенным.

Speech Exercises:

1. Try to remember the course of Coke’s thoughts while he was driving the police car.

2. Perform the scene with two policemen at the road block

Chapter 11

SYNOPSIS: Halls and Baxter tried to catch Coke when they saw him on a road in the countryside late at night. Coke, however, got away from them and stole their car. He also got through a police road block.

‘How much farther is to the nearest village?’ Baxter asked. He and Halls were in the middle of the countryside. The night was very dark and there was no traffic on the roads. They could not see a house or even a public phone box anywhere. ‘It must be on the other side of that hill’ Halls answered. ‘I hope so! We’ve been walking for twenty minutes now! When we started, you said it was only ten minutes away!’ Baxter said angrily. He was tired and his jaw hurt. He could already imagine the Chief Inspector’s comments at their next interview. The Chief Inspector was a very sarcastic man. ‘Well, Baxter, perhaps you would explain all this to me. It seems you had a car when you saw Coke and that he had it after he saw you. Very interesting. How shall we explain all this to the papers? Shall we say something like ‘The police are always ready to help’?’

Coke turned off the main road. He wanted to get rid of the police car as soon as possible. The army often used the area for manoeuvres and Coke remembered it from the days when he was a soldier. He knew there was a village down a side road. Just before he got to it, he stopped and left the car in a field. Then he walked into the village itself. He wanted to find something and he was sure he could find it here.

In his apartment in London, a well-dressed man named Eric Masters turned on the radio and listened. The news was still bad. Coke was still free, the announcer said. Masters looked very frightened. He turned off the radio suddenly and picked up the phone.

In a village almost 200 miles away, Coke found what he wanted. ‘People in villages like this trust their neighbours. How lucky!’ he thought when he saw a motorbike. It was in a garage at the edge of the village. The garage was not even locked and there was a leather motorcycle suit on a nail. There were also a pair of gloves and a helmet. Everyone in the village was asleep. Coke worked silently. He pushed the bike down the road. When he was far enough from the village he started the engine. It roared loudly. He got on the motorbike and raced towards London.