Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfc)“Smell what, papa?”
d)“Yes, sir; a pretty big job – a pretty big job.”
e)“He’d just worship you.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Even when Mr. Adams was hardest at work he continuously thought …
b)Mr. Adams had persuaded himself of …
c)Mrs. Adams looked somewhat relieved when she heard that …
d)The air didn’t seem lovely to Mr. Adams because …
e)Mrs. Adams thought it was time to invite …
f)Mr. Adams seemed not to believe Walter’s words when …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Why did Mrs. Adams felt uneasy when looking at her husband? How did she
comfort him? How did she explain Walter’ decision not to stick to his father’s new
business?
b)What were Mr. Adams’s obsessions? What did he feel after meeting Mr.
Lamb down-town?
c)Was Mr. Adams satisfied with his new business? How was he getting on with
it?
d)What was Alice afraid of? What was her mother’s idea about Russell? Was Alice enthusiastic about it?
e)What made Mr. Adams vehement? What did Walter tell his father about Mr. Lamb? Did Mr. Adams give money to his son?
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.
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2.13 Unit 13 “Mrs. Adams brightened a little … things that came out about Alice
Adams.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in
the sentences of your own.
To come around, reminiscent, to obtain smth, mussy, to skimp, to emerge, undercurrent, to libel, nook, to put into words (some ideas or feelings), marvel, mellow, reciprocal, with a sinking heart, to set straight, pushing, to detest doing smth, atrocious.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Не говоря о, не считая; ежегодный, годовой; хвастовство; перекрывать,
совпадать; беспорядок, путаница; деревянные части строения; уединенный,
укромный; разгонять, рассеивать; законопослушный; приходить к заключению,
сделать вывод; насмехаться, говорить колкости; оранжерея.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)obeying the laws;
b)1. a corner or recess, 2. a secluded or sheltered place;
c)to poke fun at (someone);
d)1. (of two things) to share part of the same space as or lie partly over (each other), 2. to coincide partly in time or subject;
e)1. done or felt by each of two people or groups to or about the other, 2. given or done in return.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)She isn't even pretty, … beautiful.
b)They … a flat in a new many-storeyed block of flats.
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c)There was a real … of crazy thoughts in her head. They … each other and she couldn’t come to any decision.
d)He mispronounced Jill’s name and she had to … him … . So, there was something between them. Some strange feeling that she was not able to … .
e)“What a … you are!” – he exclaimed with admiration.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Show-off, enterprising, rumpled, atrocious, reciprocal, to dispel, mussy, to dissipate,
to skimp, mutual, to scrimp, bragging, pushing, secluded, solitary, secluded, abominable.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Мне кажется, он скоро изменит свое мнение и согласится предоставить тебе оранжерею.
b)Музей находится в удовлетворительном состоянии: нужно заменить деревянные части строения и отремонтировать крышу.
c)У Фрэн есть свой укромный уголок, где она может помечтать или почитать книгу.
d)Из озера появилась рука, держащая волшебный меч. Это было настоящее чудо.
e)Законопослушные люди ненавидят нарушать правила и законы,
принятые в обществе.
f)Он не мог совершить такого низкого поступка. Я думаю, его оклеветали.
g)Эта мелодия напоминает мне о днях моей юности.
h)- Чем он тебе не нравится? Веселый и пробивной парень!
- Слишком пробивной! Не говоря уж о его постоянном хвастовстве.
i)Мягкий сумеречный свет наполнил комнату.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“Since then, his summer evenings with her had been as secluded as if, for three hours after the falling of dusk, they two had drawn apart from the world to some dear bower of their own. The little veranda was that glamorous nook, with a faint golden light falling through the glass of the closed door upon Alice, and darkness elsewhere, except for the one round globe of the street lamp at the corner. The people who passed along the
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sidewalk, now and then, were only shadows with voices, moving vaguely under the maple trees that loomed in obscure contours against the stars. So, as the two sat together, the back of the world was the wall and closed door behind them; and Russell, when he was away from Alice, always thought of her as sitting there before the closed door. A glamour was about her thus, and a spell upon him; but he had a formless anxiety never put into words: all the pictures of her in his mind stopped at the closed door.
He had another anxiety; and, for the greater part, this was of her own creating. She had too often asked him (no matter how gaily) what he heard about her, too often begged him not to hear anything.”
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… and the only marvel is that the stroke was not prophesied.
b)You seem to understand my character – and your father’s quite as well!
c)Mildred looked up, as if in a little alarm, but did not speak.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Oh, but Alice has probably asked him by this time.”
b)“Wake up, Walter!”
c)“When a man’s preoccupied there must be a lady then?”
d)“He’s a kind-hearted creature, that old man.”
e)“I’m afraid I was thinking of something else.”
f)“But it’s what I am afraid of! Mama, did you notice how red he got?”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)With some reminiscent complacency, Mr. Adams spoke about…
b)Mrs. Adams finally obtained …
c)Mrs. Adams’s menu for dinner was …
d)Mr. Arthur Russell had some anxiety because …
e)Mildred remained grave in the face because …
f)Mrs. Palmer thought Alice to be …
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XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What was Mr. Adams’s attitude to “fashionable dinners”? Did he give money for Alice’s dinner?
b)What thoughts did Alice have while taking a view of the living room? Who was to cook everything for dinner? What dishes was Mrs. Adams going to have? Did Alice like her idea about the menu? Was Alice looking forward to that evening? Why?
c)What did Alice and Mr. Arthur Russell think of each other? What were the
reasons of Russell’s anxieties?
d)What did the Palmers reproach Russell for? What did Mrs. Palmer and her husband talk about during the lunch? What drew Rusell’s attention in their talk?
e)How did Russell react to “the first mention of Alice”? How did Mrs. Palmer interpret Russell’s “high colour”?
f)What did Mildred and her mother begin to talk about after lunch? What was Mildred afraid of?
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.
2.14 Unit 14 “How could that bother Arthur? Does he … Oh, I wish we’d rented some silver!”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
To fascinate, sophisticated, piquant, virtually, soothsayer, roundabout, to abuse smb, to be a passing thing with smb, affliction, sizzling, furnace, to grope for smth, to wear oneself out on smth, commiseratingly, equipoise, to limp, impartiality.
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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.
Судить по чему-л., руководствоваться чем-л.; грубый, вульгарный, похабный,
пошлый; откровение, разоблачение; пораженный (болезнью, горем и т. п.);
проклятый; вялый, медленный; неодетый, раздетый; в знак чего-либо (дружбы,
согласия и т. п.); вязкий, тягучий; недооценивать; радостно улыбаться, сиять.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)the state of being perfectly balanced; equilibrium;
b)capable of being hammered or pressed into shape without breaking;
c)to walk with an uneven step, esp. with a weak or injured leg;
d)1. the act of making known a truth which was previously secret, 2. a fact newly made known;
e)1. something that causes physical or mental suffering, 2. a condition of great distress or suffering.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)You’ll make a mistake if you … appearances.
b)I didn’t think him to be so rude, but his … remarks made me change my
opinion about him.
c)Are you a … to tell me about my future?
d)She … him … friendship and gratitude.
e)After such a long and tiresome journey Jack … a little. On entering his dark and cold room he … a big rocking chair and sat there still. His leg gave him much pain.
V. Match the synonymous pairs.
Unclad, to grope for, impartiality, sizzling, languid, commiseratingly, piquant, woe, to abuse, naked, to asperse, affliction, scalding, gross, equity, ribald, sympathizingly, savoury, sluggish, to feel about for.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Жили-были Дед да Баба. Решила Баба испечь Колобка и затопила печь.
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b)Думаю, увлечение Джона оккультизмом – вещь преходящая.
c)Избавьте меня от необходимости выслушивать ваши пошлые откровения.
d)Его красноречие завораживает и изумляет.
e)Оскорбить человека не так сложно, как извиниться перед ним.
f)Если судить о человеке по его внешности, можно недооценить его душевные качества.
g)Пораженный горем отец стоял у могилы сына.
h)“Не стоит изматывать себя подобными подозрениями,” – сказала Джин подруге с сочувствием.
i)Под таким палящим солнцем можно ходить только совершенно
раздетым.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“That morning and noon had been warm, though the stirrings of a feeble breeze made weather not flagrantly intemperate; but at about three o'clock in the afternoon there came out of the southwest a heat like an affliction sent upon an accursed people, and the air was soon dead of it. Dripping negro ditch-diggers whooped with satires praising hell and hot weather, as the tossing shovels flickered up to the street level, where sluggish male pedestrians carried coats upon hot arms, and fanned themselves with straw hats, or, remaining covered, wore soaked handkerchiefs between scalp and straw. Clerks drooped in silent, big department stores, stenographers in offices kept as close to electric fans as the intervening bulk of their employers would let them; guests in hotels left the lobbies and went to lie unclad upon their beds; while in hospitals the patients murmured querulously against the heat, and perhaps against some noisy motorist who strove to feel the air by splitting it, not troubled by any foreboding that he, too, that hour next week, might need quiet near a hospital.”
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)Ella used to go to school with a girl who lives across the street from here.
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b)It was perfectly clear that she was mentioned by accident, and so was her
father.
c)I only wish it hadn’t turned so hot.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“I meant only that I’m sorry it happened.”
b)“I didn’t say perhaps, Arthur. I said she would.”
c)“Do you suppose it’s too late to get someone else?”
d)“My, but that smell is pretty strong!”
e)“Will you step into our living-room, please?”
f)“I’ll not – tell her.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Mrs. Palmer said that Mildred couldn’t “blame poor Arthur” because …
b)Frank Dowling was going to see Alice one evening and he saw …
c)Looking over her daughter’s shoulder, Mrs. Palmer saw …
d)Waiting at the door, in a languid attitude, was …
e)Mr. Adams was dressed in the clothes his wife had pressed; but …
f)The door remained closed for a considerable time because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Why was Mildred a little disappointed in Arthur after her dance? What change did Mildred notice in him?
b)What was Mrs. Palmer’s attitude to Mildred’s fears? Why was she calm about
the matter?
c)What was the weather like the day Russell was going to come to see the
Adamses?
d)How did the Adamses prepare for the visit of Russell? What were Mrs.
Adams’s “heroic” acts?
e)What was wrong with Gertrude? What happened to her just before Arthur’s
arrival?
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f) Who opened the door when Russell came? What chance was Mrs. Adams glad to have while talking to Russell? What was Alice doing while her mother was entertaining Arthur?
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.
2.15 Unit 15“Why?” … she ran back into the house and closed the door heavily behind her.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Dubiously, wilted, door-knob, tardy, incorrigible, to have presence of mind enough to do smth, to do smth in spite of oneself, unpropitious, to expire, sweltering, to owe, to be becoming to smb, modesty, eulogium (eulogy), affronted, to lisp, to strike smb dumb, saffron.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Уговаривать, призывать к чему-либо; удаляться из виду; сверх того, кроме того; выделять, испускать (пар, запах и т. п.); сильный, мощный, крепкий; маятник;
вопрос, допрос; ослабевать, слабеть, пасть духом; душить, удушать, задыхаться;
встряхнуться, энергично взяться; гостеприимный, радушный; упущение, небольшая ошибка; вздрагивать (от боли, испуга); передернуться (от отвращения).
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)1. to kill or die through lack of oxygen, such as by blockage of the air passage, 2. to feel uncomfortable from heat and lack of air;
b)occurring later than it is expected to or than it should;
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c)1. to finish or run out; come to an end, 2. to breathe out air, 3. to die;
d)1. healthy and full of strength and energy, 2. strong or invigorating;
e)to draw back suddenly from pain or something unpleasant.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)He felt … on hearing these gross sentences.
b)They know you’re a novice. They won’t reproach you for this … .
c)She … not to talk to Will about his sore points. Such conversations always make him … .
d)This jacket is … to a slim girl.
e)Half- … dahlias … some strange bitterish odour.
V. Match the synonymous pairs.
Hospitable, to fade away, unpropitious, to exhale, incorrigible, stalwart, to expire, to
evaporate, lusty, friendly, unfavourable, hesitatingly, to flag, irremediable, dubiously, to
slacken.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Он уже взялся за дверную ручку, когда услышал голоса за дверью.
Похоже, мать Джин опять устроила ей допрос, а та отвечала что-то тихо и
неуверенно.
b)При мысли об этом происшествии она непроизвольно вздрогнула.
c)Тебе очень идет это платье шафранового (желто-оранжевого) цвета.
d)Изнемогающие от зноя люди находили приятную прохладу в водах реки. Река спасала от удушающей жажды животных, давала жизнь увядшим растениям.
e)Когда истекает срок хранения этих продуктов?
f)Ты неисправим! Снова опоздал на полчаса!
g)Маленькая девочка, лепеча, рассказывала о своей новой кукле.
h)В их гостеприимном доме всегда с радостью встречали друзей и
знакомых.
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