Learn these words and word-combinations

take aim		прицелиться
demand		требовать
press the trigger		нажать курок
superior		начальник; старший по званию
informer		информатор
pour		лить
throat		горло
come to		придти в себя
crash		столкновение; авария
get drunk		напиться
lose control		потерять управление
file		папка
swear (swore, sworn)		клясться; ругаться
apparently		по-видимому
deposit		депозит
bank account		банковский счёт

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

узнать, по приказу Мастерса, уединенное место, схватить, ударить по голове, врезаться в дерево, казаться, подпись, брать деньги из банка, отрицать

Agree or disagree with these statements:

1. Kate didn’t believe that Masters was going to shoot. 2. Coke had thrown Masters over his back. 3. Kate managed to knock Masters down because she went in for track and field athletics in her childhood. 4. Masters agreed to answer Coke’s questions immediately. 5. Masters was afraid that Coke would shoot him in cold blood.

Answer these questions:

1. Did Masters tell the truth immediately? 2. What means did Coke have to use to make Masters speak? 3. Did Masters believe that Coke would use his pistol? What did he shout when Coke started counting? 4. Did Masters deny or admit that he knew something about the dramatic episode that had happened to Coke before he went to prison? 5. What broke down Masters’ resistance? 6. What did Coke and Masters do five years ago? 7. Who was superior? 8. What unpleasant incident had occurred in their unit five years before? 9. What had they tried to do? 10. Where had Coke gone on Masters’ orders one evening? 11. Why had Masters told Coke to go to Epping Forest? 12. What had happened to Coke while he was waiting there? 13. Where did Coke find himself when he came to? 14. Why had the police arrive? 15. What did it appear? 16. What had the police found in his car? 17. What did Coke swear? 18. How much had Coke apparently deposited in his bank account a few weeks before? 19. Had Coke known anything of the money? 20. What did the bank say? How had the cheques arrived? Which bank had the cheques drawn on? Whose countersignature was on the cheques? 21. Did anybody believe Coke’s story? What did they all think had occurred the night Coke had crashed? 22. What did Masters state? 23. What did Coke want to ask Masters about?

Translate into English:

1. Мастерс кричал, что Коуку не удастся запугать его. 2. Мастерс наблюдал, как палец Коука нажимал на курок. 3. Мысли Коука вернулись к тому времени, когда они вместе с Мастерсом служили в одном подразделении Армейской разведки. Мастерс был тогда начальником Коука. Они пытались выяснить, кто взял важные секретные документы. 4. По приказу Мастерса Коук отправился в уединенное место. Мастерс велел ему встретиться там с информатором. 5. Когда Коук пришел в себя, он был в своей машине. Машина врезалась в дерево. 6. Полиция обнаружила, что Коук внес $2,000 на свой банковский счет. 7. Казалось, что он продал какие-то военные секреты за деньги и собирался сделать это снова.

Speech Exercises:

• Retell the events described in the episode as if you were Coke.

• State the facts represented by a probable prosecutor at Coke’s trial.

Retell the episode using the following words and phrases:

protest; raise the pistol; frighten; take aim; demand; press the trigger; put down; one’s mind; Army Intelligence unit; superior; disappear; find out; lonely place; informer; grab; pour; hit; come to; crash into; arrive; it appeared; get drunk; loose control of; file; swear; deposit; by post; to be drawn on a Swiss bank; sell secrets; deny.

Questions

1. Why did Masters agree to answer Coke’s questions? 2. What did Coke remember? 3. Why did nobody believe Coke’s story?

CHAPTER 22

SYNOPSIS: Masters has agreed to tell Coke everything.

For a moment Coke wanted to pull the trigger. He had never killed anyone in cold blood, but he found it difficult not to hate Masters. Because of him, he had lost four years of his freedom. Because of him everybody thought he was a spy.

Somehow, Coke got a grip of himself. Perhaps it was because he knew Masters was his only chance to prove he was innocent, and he knew if he killed him, he would lose that chance. ‘Let’s start at the beginning…when you sent me to Epping Forest that night,’ Coke said in a flat, cold voice. ‘That was Hugo’s idea. I had nothing to do with it.’ ‘And who is Hugo?’ Coke demanded. ‘He sells government secrets to any foreign country that’s interested. He made me give him information. I didn’t want to!’ ‘Made you? How did he make you?’ Coke asked. Masters stared down at the floor for several seconds before he answered. ‘He knew things about me. He said he would tell the police about them if I didn’t help him.’ ‘What sort of things?’ Again Masters hesitated before answering. ‘What does it matter? The sort of things that would ruin any man if the police or anyone else found out about them.’ There were only a few more things Coke wanted to know now. ‘Why did you involve me in all this?’ ‘The police suspected someone. We wanted to make them think you were the spy. We knew they would if they found your dead body in a car after a crash with all sorts of secrets in it.’ ‘My dead body?’ ‘Hugo thought the crash would kill you,’ Masters said. ‘A pity it didn’t. You’d still be safe if I were dead!’ Masters swallowed and stared at the floor. ‘And why aren’t you still in the army? You’d be a lot more useful to Hugo if you were,’ Coke went on. ‘It became too dangerous. Anyway he still uses me.’ ‘How?’ Coke asked. ‘We hide microfilms of secret documents in antique weapons I send abroad. The people we send them to pose as foreign collectors.’ Coke had one last question. It was most important. ‘Where’s Hugo now? Take me to him!’