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Chapter 1 Country Beginnings

I.Read, translate and transcribe the following words, give explanation of their meaning. Say in what situations these words and combinations are used.

Good nature

Fair good looks

The birth of younger brothers caused her no jealousy

Practical and sensible upbringing

The simple virtues of truthfulness and neighbourliness

To value greatly

All one’s past is an open book

Straight-backed

Long-legged

A mop of curly hair

Average academic abilities

Patient and cheerful disposition

Boisterous health

To take up teaching

To do work with zest and efficiency

To do something useful in the world

To be brought up in the tradition of useful service

To daunt smb.

To depress smb.

To lift one’s spirits

To seem doubly dear

II.Replace the following words with their synonyms from the given list.

To raise one’s mood, to work with great effort and good results, all your deeds are known by people, a pleasant appearance, to choose a career of a teacher, a very strong health, to upset somebody.

III.Give the three forms of the following verbs, translate and transcribe them.

To hurl, to adjust, to lie, to lay, to hang, to twitch, to sit, to seat, to bargain, to accompany, to blow, to spread, to toss, to murmur, to envy, to outbreak, to run, to bake, to mend, to cycle, to endure, to bring up, to daunt, to think, to smell.

IV.Translate, transcribe and pronounce the following words, use them in the sentences of your own.

Perpetual, mauve, dimension, fascinated, spacious, gesture, cretonne, anxious, grudgingly, conciliatory, privet, rural, horizon, burly, giant, cheerfulness, hefty, good-tempered, courtship, jealousy, virtues, wholeheartedly, wisdom, clack-clacking, acre, queue, immaculate, philosophically, honeysuckle, throng.

V.Explain the use of tenses in the following phrases.

  1. She had travelled across London and had felt the oppression of spirits which row upon row of streets always produced on her.

  2. ]Margaret Lacey, … was now approaching fifty…

  3. Her father had been a miller and had lived and worked all his life in a tall lovely building which stood by the … river Low.

  4. … in her dinner hours she would go into the library…

  5. … the girl realized … that by the time it had turned golden she would be teaching, and would not be there to see all the days of harvest.

VI.State the function of the infinitive in the following sentences.

  1. She twitched the curtain aside to show a rail containing three… hangers.

  2. She pressed her back against the wall to allow Mrs. Flynn to pass…

  3. … you will have to face a bus journey every day.

  4. There will be books to mark and handwork to prepare.

  5. … I must have somewhere to bring friends…

  6. …they seemed to be fluttering in welcome.

  7. …she would not be there to see all the days of harvest.

  8. …Where modern poets could be found…

VII.State the form and the function of the gerund in the following sentences.

  1. I hadn’t bargained for letting two rooms.

  2. …wryly watched her meals being whittled away…

  3. It began whirring before striking ten o’clock…

  4. … in work which she was capable of doing with zest…

  5. Working with children will stand you in good stead…