Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdf2.10 Unit 10 “Alice had said that no one who knew … Adams said, as he got out and shook hands”.
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Ungenteel, thoroughfare, foul, to lure, perilous, guilelessness, surreptitious, to outgrow smth, to venture, calamitous, to come out all right, intrusive, to make a long study of smth, shrillness, to cut smb off, to fire smb, to make little (no) headway, to pace the floor, to take a resolution, liquid, malodorous.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Со стороны (Расселла и т. п.); пешеход; застенчивый, робкий; едва ли, с
трудом; смущенный, обескураженный; косо, набок; напряженно, натянуто; тяжелый,
утомительный; ожидать, предвидеть; связаться с кем-либо (разг.); подкупить, дать взятку, таблетки от кашля.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)1. to do something that involves risk or danger, 2. to dare to express (an opinion), 3. to go to an unknown or dangerous place, 4. to dare (to do something);
b)with a twist to one side;
c)done in secret or without permission;
d)hardly at all;
e)to dismiss from employment.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)She is very … and doesn’t talk much.
b)I … your project and came to the conclusion that it is rather promising.
c)The road sign “No …” means that the road is closed for driving.
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d)The interview got to be too … for me and I made an attempt to … the
reporter.
e)But it was rather dishonest … John not to let them know about the accident!
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Ungenteel, to dare, to suborn, stealthy, slantwise, calamitous, perilous, toilsome, to
venture, disastrous, primly, to bribe, awry, stiffly, surreptitious, rough, laborious,
dangerous.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Тебе лучше не связываться с этими людьми!
b)Мне с трудом верится, что он мог быть таким грубым с тобой.
c)Не стоит так об этом беспокоиться! С возрастом он отделается от этой дурной привычки.
d)Твое простодушие просто опасно: ты легко можешь стать жертвой чьей-
нибудь бесчестной интриги.
e)Сначала я хорошо изучу этот план и только потом приму решение.
f)Он никак не ожидал, что его могут уволить.
g)Чтобы заманить мышь в мышеловку, нужен кусочек сыра.
h)Я слышал, как он расхаживает по комнате взад и вперед.
i)Это был довольно смелый поступок со стороны Дэвида.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
But Alice had forgotten the colour she herself had used in accounting for Walter's peculiarities, and she did not understand. "What?" she said, huskily.
"Don't you remember telling me about him? How he was going to write, probably, and would go anywhere to pick up types and get them to talk?"
She kept her eyes ahead, and said sharply, "I think his literary tastes scarcely cover this case!"
"Don't be too sure. He didn't look at all disconcerted. He didn't seem to mind your seeing him."
"That's all the worse, isn't it?"
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"Why, no," her friend said, genially. "It means he didn't consider that he was engaged in anything out of the way. You can't expect to understand everything boys do at his age; they do all sorts of queer things, and outgrow them. Your brother evidently has a taste for queer people, and very likely he's been at least half sincere when he's made you believe he had a literary motive behind it. We all go through - "
"Thanks, Mr. Russell," she interrupted. "Let's don't say any more."
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)Nothing could have been more innocent than the serenity with which these wicked little places revealed themselves for what they were.
b)… but without looking at him she suddenly offered him her hand.
c)… he seems to be a very desirable young man.
d)The words were all but inaudible.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“OH, you bashful vamp!”
b)“I think his literary tastes scarcely cover this case!”
c)“That’s all HE’D think; don’t you see?”
d)“You can’t stay with Lamb and Company.”
e)“Either you do what I want, or I won’t do what you want.”
f)“But he pays US.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)All of the dingy street was ugly, but …
b)Russell thought that Alice was a good sister because …
c)Mrs. Adams thought that beside any other girl in town Alice was …
d)After dinner Mr. Adams wanted Walter to …
e)Of all Mr. Adams’s regrets the greatest was …
f)Adams was horrified by his companion’s idea of …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
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a)Describe the street where Russell and Alice were walking. What kind of place
was it?
b)What reminded Alice of Walter? Was Alice pleased to see Walter himself stepping out of the open door of the house? Who accompanied Walter? How did Russell
interpret the whole situation and Alice’s reaction to it?
c) Why did Alice begin to show a little hopefulness after the conversation with her mother? What did Mrs. Adams think about Walter? How did she explain Walter’s behaviour?
d)What did Mr. Adams and Walter talk about after dinner? Did Walter support
his father’s idea about starting a glue factory? Why was he skeptical about it? What
resolution did Walter take? How did the whole conversation end?
e)What did Mr. Adams remember about the idea of “the great man” about glue?
Who found the formula of the glue? Why had Mr. Lamb lost interest in a glue business?
f) What for did Mr. Adams go down-town on Monday? What arrangements did he make?
XII. Give a short summary of the Chapters under study (7-10 sentences).
XIII Make up a short story using as many words and expressions from vocabulary under study (ex-s. I – II) as possible.
2.11 Unit 11 “Then, telling the driver to wait … I DO wish I knew how he feels about it.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
To come over smb (about feelings and emotions), to branch out, to mill over the idea of doing smth, codger, to contrive to do smth, infringement, available, ruminatively, blotter, saucy, apparent, to go ahead, to ramble over, speculative, exorbitant, spiteful, forger.
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II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Достигать, выполнять; житель, обитатель; весьма, очень (разг.); помнить,
иметь в виду, принимать во внимание; послать по почте; непоследовательно,
уклончиво; зеница ока; обдумывать, размышлять, рассматривать; пристройка,
флигель; подавленный, меланхолический; призыв, увещевание; очень худой, кожа да кости; кладбище.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)a place where dead people are buried;
b)excessively great or high;
c)1. to think deeply about, 2. to consider as a possibility, 3. to look at thoughtfully, 4. to meditate;
d)1. readily seen or understood; obvious, 2. seeming as opposed to real;
e)a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)You should … that he may not like your idea of starting a new business. So you’d better … the necessity of having someone else in your future staff.
b)This information is … to anyone.
c)She is the most … taleteller in our town.
d)Fury … him and he tore the letter to small pieces.
e)She somehow … to find a way to see him.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Spiteful, admonition, extremely, to manage, pensively, annex, to mail, to realize, ruminatively, mighty, dreary, to post, to contrive, melancholic, malicious, exhortation, to accomplish, ell.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a) Джон решил расширить дело. Он уже отправил по почте новые рекламные проспекты для своих постоянных клиентов.
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b)- Какой забавный старикашка! Кто он?
-Тише! Он живет у нас во дворе, в небольшом флигеле. Говорят,
что он колдун!
-Ну ты и выдумщик!
c)Несмотря на мои увещевания, Джулия все-таки решила попробовать эту диету. К концу месяца от нее остались кожа да кости.
d)Тебе нужно двигаться вперед, не останавливаясь на достигнутом.
e)Когда у него находилось свободное время, он бродил по парку, вновь и вновь возвращаясь к мысли о путешествии в Австралию.
f)В этот день многие люди ездят на кладбище, чтобы почтить память умерших родственников.
g)Он берег эту фамильную реликвию как зеницу ока.
h)Энн задумчиво смотрела в окно, размышляя о чем-то своем.
i)Мне кажется, что он и не собирается выполнять это обещание.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“She was silent again, and he said nothing, but looked at her, seeming to be content with looking. Her attitude was one only a graceful person should assume, but she was graceful; and, in the wan light, which made a prettily shaped mist of her, she had beauty. Perhaps it was beauty of the hour, and of the love scene almost made into form by what they had both just said, but she had it; and though beauty of the hour passes, he who sees it will long remember it and the hour when it came.
"What are you thinking of?" he asked.
She leaned back in her chair and did not answer at once. Then she said:
"I don't know; I doubt if I was thinking of anything. It seems to me I wasn't. I think I was just being sort of sadly happy just then."
"Were you? Was it 'sadly,' too?"
"Don't you know?" she said. "It seems to me that only little children can be just happily happy. I think when we get older our happiest moments are like the one I had just then: it's as if we heard strains of minor music running through them - oh, so sweet, but oh, so sad!"
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VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… if he thought he owed you a cent he’d sell his right hand for a pork-chop to
pay it.
b)He smiled as he picked up his pen to begin a new draft of the painful letter.
c)I wish I could understand better why you were sadly happy.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Why on earth don’t you just go down and there and tell him?”
b)“No. Mr. Russell called.”
c)“Did he look so badly?”
d)“We don’t need to be already thinking of the cemetery, do we?”
e)“I DO wish I knew how he feels about it.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Mr. Adams said to Charley Lohr that he was going to turn …
b)In Charley Lohr’s opinion, if Mr. Lamb “got the idea anybody was trying to get the better of him,” he’d …
c)Mr. Adams couldn’t tell Mr. Lamb about his plans himself because …
d)Mr. Adams found that he had no plans to make because …
e)By the end of the week of preparations and hard work Mr. Adams felt …
f)Looking at Alice in the wan light Mr. Russell seemed to be content with
looking because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Was Charley Lohr surprised to hear about Mr. Adams’s plan about a new
business? What did he think about it?
b) What made Mr. Adams become “pitiably embarrassed”? Why was Mr. Lamb’s attitude towards his “new step” so important for him? Prove your point of view using the quotations from the text.
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c)Was it difficult for Mr. Adams to plan his starting a new business? Why? What steps did he take while starting a glue factory?
d)What was Mr. Lamb’s reaction to Mr. Adams’s letter?
e)Why did Alice think that her summer evenings with Russell couldn’t last very
long? What made her think so?
XII. Give a short summary of the Chapters under study (7-10 sentences).
XIII Make up a short story using as many words and expressions from vocabulary under study (ex-s. I – II) as possible.
2.12 Unit 12“That was a thought almost continuously in his mind … I don’t know what to do with him”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
To worry one’s head off about smth / smb, morbid, vat, morosely, injury, to make up excuses, assumption, overpowering, endearment, plaintively, superstition, to harp on smth, acknowledgment, to croon to oneself, to worship smb, alarm, poverty-stricken, valedictory.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Работать, не покладая рук; допекать, надоедать; сделать вывод, подвести итог,
заключить; убеждать, советовать; волнение, тревога, беспокойство; вычислять,
понимать, разгадывать; навязчивая идея; встреча; намеренный, предумышленный;
возмещение, компенсация, награда; сердечно, радушно; тяжелая работа, тяжкий труд; заслуживать, быть достойным.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
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a)1. to show profound religious devotion to (one's god), for example by praying,
2.to have intense love and admiration for (a person);
b)1. something that preoccupies a person to the exclusion of other things, 2. (Psychiatry) a persistent idea or impulse, often associated with anxiety and mental illness;
c)to sing, hum, or speak in a soft low tone;
d)to annoy or nag continually;
e)1. carefully thought out in advance; intentional, 2. careful and unhurried.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a) Oh, please, don’t tell me about black cats again! You can … these stupid … all day long.
b)But I couldn’t help trusting him: he spoke so … .
c)Her … beauty always attracted much attention.
d)Can’t you … what he is planning against you and your sister?
f)In that car crash he got a serious … to the head.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Moil, crossly, harm, encounter, alarm, lamentably, morosely, drudgery, anxiety, genially, plaintively, avowal, injury, cordially, meeting, acknowledgement.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Его идея о крупном выигрыше в лотерею становится навязчивой. Он постоянно талдычит об этом!
b)Он родился в бедной семье и работал, не покладая рук, чтобы достичь чего-то в жизни.
c)Тебе не нужно выдумывать отговорки, чтобы не принимать предложения Майкла. Этой встречи в кафе вполне достаточно, чтобы кое-что понять об этом человеке.
d)Этот тяжкий труд заслуживает соответствующей награды.
e)Она чувствовала непреодолимое желание пойти домой и хорошенько
выспаться.
f)Его прощальная речь произвела на меня неизгладимое впечатление.
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g)Кэт боготворила своего мужа: ее голова постоянно была забита его проблемами.
h)Строгий отец не допускал излишних проявлений нежности по отношению к сыну.
i)«Я живу в постоянной тревоге!» – заключила она жалобно.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“Ever since Mrs. Adams had found that she was to have her way, the depths of her eyes had been troubled by a continuous uneasiness; and, although she knew it was there, and sometimes veiled it by keeping the revealing eyes averted from her husband and children, she could not always cover it under that assumption of absent-mindedness. The uneasy look became vivid, and her voice was slightly tremulous now, as she said, "But what if he SHOULD be against you - although I don't believe he is, of course - you told me he couldn't DO anything to you, Virgil."
"No," he said, slowly. "I can't see how he could do anything. It was just a secret, not a patent; the thing ain't patentable. I've tried to think what he could do - supposing he was to want to - but I can't figure out anything at all that would be any harm to me. There isn't any way in the world it could be made a question of law. Only thing he could do'd be to TELL people his side of it, and set 'em against me. I been kind of waiting for that to happen, all along."
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… it isn’t like him to forget things.
b)As soon as he sees that you’re going to succeed with the glue-works he’ll
want to be with you.
c)… what he felt was this unremittent curiosity about his old employer’s
thoughts.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“It’ll wear off, Virgil.”
b)“But hasn’t he a right to choose for himself?”
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