Vocabulary and Grammar Tasks

Match up the words and word combinations in the left column with their Russian equivalents in the right

column.

663. 65. keen

     66. to verify

     67. familiar

     68. to supply with

     69. to suspect

     70. a fee

     71. to guard

     72. secure

     73. traffic

     74. a traffic jam

     75. this is out of question

     12) to stand smth

     подозревать

664. подтверждать

665. острый

666. уличное движение

667. об этом не может быть

и речи

668. выдержать что-нибудь

669. знакомый

h) уличная пробка

i) обеспечивать, снабжать

the

j) гонорар

к) защищать, охранять

1) безопасный

Find in the text the synonyms for the following words:

odour, to ruin, safe, to pull, to shut, to fall (about the heart), astonished, sharp, to excuse oneself, not

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long ago, dead, to confirm, to treat (лечить), to pro­vide, strange.

Translate the following sentences. (Revision of Gram­mar)

670. Я надеюсь, что к Новому году мы сдадим все зачеты (oral tests).

671. Пусть дети идут спать. Они уже два часа смо­трят телевизор.

672. Я уверена, что в их разводе виновата Анна (конструкция it is... who).

673. Стороны не смогли прийти к соглашению, и им придется встретиться снова.

674. К концу октября подводная лодка (a submarine) была поднята.

675. Допрашиваемый сейчас человек подозревается в убийстве,

676. Моя сестра худеет и не ест ни хлеба, ни кар­тошки.

677. Мы хотим, чтобы преступники были пойманы и наказаны.

678. Видели, что он выстрелил первым.

679. Жаль, что я не знаю английского. Я бы пони­мала слова песен.

Checking Comprehension

Answer the questions.

680. What was Daphne thinking about when she looked at the garden out of the window?

681. Why did she decide to pack her suit-case? Did she want to stay in London for a few days?

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682. Where was Favell to meet Maxim, Daphne and Colonel Julian?

683. Where did Dr. Baker live?

684. Did they easily find his house?

685. What did Dr. Baker look like?

686. Did Dr. Baker recollect Rebecca's visit to him right away?

687. Under what name did Rebecca visit Dr. Baker?

688. What kind of disease did she suffer from?

689. Why did Colonel Julian want it to be known that Dr. Baker supplied them with a motive?

\$? Discussion Tasks

Act out the scene from the text beginning with the words "Forgive me for keeping you waiting..." up to the end of the chapter. The cast: Dr. Baker, Maxim, Favell, Colonel Julian.

^{Chapter 24}

We took Colonel Julian to his sister and left him there. Now that we were alone again and the strain was over, the sensation was one of almost unbelievable relief. Maxim's hand covered mine.

"I believe," he said, "that Rebecca lied to me on pur­pose. She wanted me to kill her. She foresaw everything. That's why she laughed. That's why she stood there laughing when she died."

I did not say anything. It was all over. It did not matter any more.

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"It was her last practical joke¹," said Maxim, "the best of them all. And I'm not sure if she hasn't won, even now."

"What do you mean? How can she have won?"

"I don't know," he said. "I don't know. I'm go­ing to ring up Frank." He stopped the car near a lit­tle restaurant. I waited. In ten minutes Maxim came back.

"Something rather odd happened," he said slowly, a line between his brows. "About ten minutes before I rang up, Frith telephoned to Frank and said there had been a long-distance call for Mrs. Danvers. This must have been about ten past six. At a quarter to seven he knocked on the door and found her room empty. They looked for her but could not find her. They think she's gone."

"Isn't it a good thing?" I said. "It saves us a lot of trouble. I believe she guessed."

"I don't like it," said Maxim. "I don't like it."

"She can't do anything," I argued. "If she's gone, so much the better. It was Favell who telephoned of course. He must have told her about Baker. They can't black­mail us. It's too dangerous."

"I'm not thinking of blackmail," said Maxim.

"What else can they do? We must forget it. It's all over, darling, it's finished. We ought to go down on our knees and thank God that's finished."

Maxim did not answer. He was staring in front of him at nothing.

It was going to be very different in the future, I thought. I was not going to be shy with the serv­ants any more. I would learn to control the house. They

a practical joke — розыгрыш

would like me, respect me. People would come and stay at Manderley, and I wouldn't mind. And we would have children. Surely we would have children.

It was getting dark and I was very tired. "Can't we stop at a hotel for the night?" I asked.

Maxim shook his head. "No," he said, "we must hur­ry. I want to get home. Something's wrong. I know it is. I want to get home."

I shut my eyes. A hundred images came to me — things seen, things known, and things forgotten. I dreamed I was writing letters in the morning-room. I wrote them with a thick black pen. But when I looked down to see what I had written it was not my small square handwriting at all, it was long, and slanting, with curious pointed strokes. I got up and went to the looking-glass. A face that stared back at me was not my own. It was very pale, very lovely, framed in a cloud of dark hair. The face in the glass stared at me and laughed. And I saw then that she was sitting on a chair before the dressing-table in her bedroom, and Maxim was brushing her hair. He held her hair in his hands, and as he brushed it he wound it slowly into a thick rope. It twisted like a snake, and he took hold of it with both hands and smiled at Rebecca and put it round his neck."

"No!" I screamed. "No, no!" I felt Maxim's hand up­on my face.

"Sh," he said. "Wake up. We'll be back by three."

I climbed over and sat beside him, staring in front of me through the wind-screen. My teeth were chatter­ing. The hills rose in front of us, fell and rose again. It was quite dark. With no stars.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"Twenty past two."

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" It's funny," I said. "It looks as though the dawn is breaking over there, beyond these hills. It can't be, it's too early."

He did not answer and went on watching the sky. It seemed to get lighter and lighter.

"It's in winter you see the northern lights, isn't it?" I said. "Not in summer."

"That's not the northern lights," said Maxim. "That's Manderley. It is burning."

I glanced at him and saw his face. I saw his eyes. The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was hot with crim­son, like a splash of blood.¹ And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

THE END

Activities

Pre-reading Task

Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

unbelievable, cover, brows, above, salt, wind-screen, to wind, dawn, eyes, in front.

['лпЬі'ІтЬІ] ['клуз] [brauz] [э'Ьлу] [so:lt] ['wmdskri:n] [wamd] [do:n] [aiz] ['in'fnmt]

¹ It was hot with crimson, like a splash of blood. — Оно бы­ло багряным, словно забрызгано кровью.

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Ш Vocabulary and Grammar Tasks

1 Fill in the gaps with the words from the box putting them in the right form.

a long-distance call

on purpose

to argue

to foresee

to wind (wound, wound)

to save

a strain

to guess

to cover

to blow (blew, blown)

690. A strong wind out the candle and it be­came quite dark.

691. It's impossible all the consequences of

antiterrorist operations.

3) It's no use with him. He won't admit

that he is wrong.

4) " what present I have prepared for you,"

the boy said to his mother.

692. When I came to the office, I was told that there had been for me.

693. You should have a good rest. This trial was such for you.

694. Our cat a ball of wool around a chair.

695. The man his face with his hands to

conceal his tears.

9) I am sure Nelly didn't do it . She meant

well.

10) a) Most of the passengers of the sunk ship .

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696. This new method will us a lot of time.

697. He money for a new car.

Find in the text the examples of conversion (about 25 words), polysemy (about 10 words) and "false friends of a translator" (2 words).

Translate the sentences. (Revision of Grammar)

698. Когда мы приехали в порт, корабль только отходил от берега.

699. Где будет похоронен этот актер?

700. Возможно, он заходил ко мне вчера, но меня не было дома.

701. Должно быть, он сейчас дает показания.

702. Просмотрев полученную утром корреспонден­цию, директор вызвал секретаря.

703. Он любит, когда его приглашают на презентации.

704. Мы ожидаем, что договор будет подписан на следующей неделе.

705. Никто из нас не пойдет на это собрание.

706. Необходимо, чтобы вы заставили вашего сына посещать школу.

707. Если бы я не попал в «пробку», я бы приехал вовремя.

Checking Comprehension

Complete the sentences.

1) Maxim thought that Rebecca had lied to him

708. Daphne decided to learn .

709. Maxim was sure that something .

710. Daphne dreamt that .

711. The face that stared at her in the looking-glass

712. Daphne dreamt that Maxim wound Rebecca's hair into a thick -

713. That was not the northern lights. That was

10) The ashes

Discussion Tasks

Describe:

714. Daphne's dream.

715. their way back home.

716. Frank said that there had been

717. Favell told Mrs. Danvers

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Questions and Tasks for the Final Discussion