В ариант заданий №2

I. Выявите параметры, по которым различаются данные синонимы:

a) happen, occur, chance, come about, befall, betide

b) injure, harm, hurt, damage, impair

c) climb, ascend, mount

d) decline, refuse, reject

e) leave, abandon, forsake, desert

f) pursue, chase, follow

II. Переведите предложения, обратив внимание на

передачу оттенков значения единиц, которые

относятся к тому или иному синонимическому ряду.

1. Mrs. Davidson gave him a quick look through her pince-nez but did not answer his question (Maugham)¹

2. He spoke to a crowd with eloquence and replied to an individual with humour… (Chesterton)

3. This subtle world appealed to him. It answered to his temperament.

(Dreiser)

4. ” You’re wet through’” said Edna. “Am I indeed!” Frederick retorted, ominously sardonic — forgetting the audience. (H.Bates)

5. When immersed in a book, she was, as her husband had put it, its slave. “You‘re a perfect slave to that trash,” he had once sneered at her when she had failed to respond to his question. (Cronin)

6. These regrets only lasted in their pure form for a few hours. (Foster)

7. He stopped for a moment and then continued more slowly. (Voynich)

8. She glanced in the window. The music continued.

9. Hours must have passed. I looked at my watch and found that this state of meaningless terror had lasted perhaps ten minutes. (D.Lessing)

10. “Gentlemen, let us be frank. I know what you are and you know What I am. (F.Forsyth)²

11. Luke’s face flushed, his tone was quiet and sincere. (C.P.Snow)

12. The child had so little to confess. A few puny errors which must excite a smile on the lips of the gentle priest, and her candid spirit was like snow. (Maugham)

13. A chill went down my spine as it strangely does when I am confronted with deep and genuine human emotion. (Maugham)

14. First of all, you should not go out gathering wild flowers and grasses when they are wet after rain or dew has fallen. (Morning Star)

15. Some minutes later the bell sounded in the corridor and the boys put down their pencils. A monitor came round to collect the papers. (Noughton)

16. Octavian was finding it necessary to take a deliberate grip on himself, to respire slowly and assemble his senses and tell himself who he was. (Murdoch)

17. She received some peculiar letters backstage and telegrams asking her if she wanted to go out to supper and twice there were roses. (I.Shaw)

18. He must have seen my aunt in Paris, for how else could he have obtained my address? (Green)

19. Someone gained admission to your room and searched it. (Christie).

III. Запомните американо-британские лексические эквиваленты и подготовьтесь к письменному тесту.

Британский вариант 1. waistcoat — жилет 2. vest — нижняя сорочка 3. pants (trunks and slips) — нижнее бельё 4. trousers 5. to telegram 6. handbag 7. to change (currency) 8. sweets 9. tin 10. chemist 11. Chemist’s 12. holiday 13. interval 14. “Lost Property” 15. PCL — Private Limited Company 16. a form (at school)

Американский вариант vest undershirt underwear pants to wire purse to exchange (currency) candies, chocolates can druggist drugstore, pharmacy vacation intermission “Lost and Found” INC — Incorporated Company a grade