Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfIV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)1. a large room, esp. at a school, containing several beds; 2. (US) a building, esp. at a college, providing living accommodation;
b)1. a narrow horizontal surface that projects from a wall or window; 2. a narrow shelflike projection on a cliff or mountain;
c)(of sounds or cries) sounding sharply through (the silence);
d)a style of dancing in which the performer wears shoes with metal plates at the heels and toes that make a rhythmic sound on the stage as he or she dances;
e)a place of worship with its own altar, in a church or cathedral;
f)1. appealing or attractive; 2. (Informal) clever or shrewd.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Ты зря сердишься на него! По-моему, он отличный парень!
b)Как можно жить в одном общежитии с такой неряхой!
c)Во время экскурсии мы посетили маленькую старинную часовню. Потом мы получили задание придумать о ней стихотворение описательного характера.
d)- Почему ты не смеешься?
- Это старая шутка. Я ее уже слышал.
e)У нее была невыносимая особенность встревать в чей-то разговор и говорить что-то неуместное тонким пронзительным голосом.
f)Твой брат – непревзойденный мастер чечетки!
g)Через запотевшие от пара стекла ничего нельзя было разглядеть.
h)Я посмотрел на него украдкой, чтобы понять, что он делает с этой ржавой трубой.
i)То, что ты пытался незаконно освободиться из-под стражи, только усугубит твою вину.
j)Его поступок был полнейшей глупостью, но иногда страх перед неопределенностью заставляет людей делать и более странные вещи.
k)- Какая прелестная девчушка! Это ваша младшая дочь?
-Нет, это моя племянница.
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VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary (Vocabulary exercises I-II) for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“That's something else that gives me a royal pain. I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas. Stradlater was always doing that. He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place. He was a little bit like Ackley, that way. I once sat next to Ackley at this basketball game. We had a terrific guy on the team, Howie Coyle, that could sink them from the middle of the floor, without even touching the backboard or anything. Ackley kept saying, the whole goddam game, that Coyle had a perfect build for basketball. God, how I hate that stuff. I got bored sitting on that washbowl after a while, so I backed up a few feet and started doing this tap dance, just for the hell of it. I was just amusing myself. I can't really tap-dance or anything, but it was a stone floor in the can, and it was good for tap-dancing. I started imitating one of those guys in the movies.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
b)… he just isn’t the kind of guy I’d want to call up.
c)At Pencey, you either froze to death or died of the heat.
d)I’m old enough to be your lousy father.
e)The reason he fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“We got on the wrong subway.”
b)“You’re nuts. I swear to God.”
c)“I shoot people in this hat.”
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d)“She’s waiting in the Annex.”
e)“Wanna do me a big favour?”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of
Pencey.
b)I thought it (the book) was going to stink, but it didn’t.
c)Even without looking up, I knew right away who it was.
d)Anybody else except Ackley would’ve taken the goddam hint.
e)Sometimes I horse around quite a lot, just to keep from getting bored.
f)That stuff gives me a bang sometimes.
g)Your folks know you got kicked out yet?
h)The only way he ever did anything was if you yelled at him.
i)He never missed a chance to let you know you were sixteen and he was
eighteen.
j)I didn’t have anything special to do.
k)Not too enthusiastic.
l)… a guy that thinks he’s a real hot-shot.
m)… and that you are just dying to do them a favour.
n)I’ll be up the creek if I don’t get it in.
o)I hate the movies like poison.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.3 Unit 3“Jane Gallagher,” I said … – But my nose was bleeding all over the place.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
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To live right next door to smb, used to do smth, to give regards to smb, to booze, nosy, muffler, to take one's mind off smth, along with smb, shipwreck, to shipwreck, virgin, anyway, to be crazy about doing smth, unscrupulous, to gripe about smth, morgue, not to say one single solitary word about smth.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Подносить клюшки, мячи при игре в гольф; драматург; возмущать, сердить;
быть склонным, хотеть сделать что-то; незрелый, ребяческий, глупый, ведущий себя несоответственно своему возрасту; спасать; одалживать, давать взаймы; тренер,
инструктор; из-за, вследствие; кричать, орать во всю глотку (at - на кого-либо);
кровоточить.
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the following definitions:
a)1. to cry noisily; 2. to shout loudly;
b)immature or silly;
c)1. at any rate; nevertheless; 2. in any manner; 3. carelessly;
d)prepared to act in a dishonest or immoral manner;
e)1. to permit the temporary use of; 2. to provide (money) temporarily, often at
interest.
f)prying or inquisitive;
g)(Informal) to complain persistently;
h)1. the destruction of a ship at sea; 2. the remains of a wrecked ship.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Она собирается за границу, а мне не сказала ни единого слова! Я узнал об этом от мальчика, который подносит клюшки при игре в гольф!
b)В любом случае, это довольно незрелый поступок с твоей стороны.
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c)Когда корабль мореплавателя потерпел крушение, многие из членов команды погибли. Аборигенам удалось спасти лишь нескольких матросов.
d)Ты не одолжишь мне этот журнал на пару дней? Тут есть отрывок из пьесы моего любимого драматурга.
e)- Передавай мой привет Филу!
- Обязательно передам!
f)Из-за отсутствия необходимых лекарств его рана плохо заживала и иногда кровоточила.
g)Ты действительно хочешь, чтобы этот пронырливый журналист пошел вместе с нами?
h)Мне не хочется идти сегодня на вечеринку. Я не могу перестать думать об этом происшествии, и это портит мне настроение.
i)Какой беспринципный молодой человек!
j)Не кричи так громко в морге! А то сторож подумает, что это трупы, и
упадет в обморок!
k)Мой тренер сказал мне, что я делаю большие успехи.
VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary (Vocabulary exercises I-II) for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“God, he was a nice kid, though. He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie. My hand still hurts me once in a while when it rains and all, and I can't make a real fist any more - not a tight one, I mean
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- but outside of that I don't care much. I mean I'm not going to be a goddam surgeon or a violinist or anything anyway. Anyway, that's what I wrote Stradlater's composition about. Old Allie's baseball mitt. I happened to have it with me, in my suitcase, so I got it out and copied down the poems that were written on it.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)She just liked the way they looked when they were all in the back row.
b)He didn’t say one goddam word about Jane. Neither did I.
c)That’s how I met her.
d)So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie’s baseball mitt.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“You used to play what with her all the time?”
b)“I don’t know. New-York, if we have time.”
c)“Did you give her my regards?”
d)“Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)I damn near dropped dead.
b)I couldn’t get over it.
c)She had a lousy childhood.
d)I couldn’t get her off my mind.
e)You didn’t have to explain every goddam little thing with him.
f)Ackley was a very nosy bastard.
g)What a racket.
h)… he wasn’t too crazy about the idea.
i)… and all that crap.
j)He finally did, but he took his time about it, as usual.
k)And they weren’t just shooting the crap.
l)When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around.
m)He was sore as hell.
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n)Did you make her be late signing in?
o)Old Stradlater was one of his pets.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.4 Unit 4“When I looked up old Stradlater … - even if I was desperate.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
To fracture smth, janitor, spooky, welfare, scholar, as a matter of fact, lonesome, to drive smb stark staring mad, to abuse smb’s hospitality, to double-date, dumb, to make cracks about smth, to give smb a handshake, wad, cab, ear-lap, soggy, to have smb in a trance.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Запекшаяся кровь (из раны); размолвка, ссора, стычка; чувствовать себя отвратительно; хозяин (человек, принимающий гостей); крепко спать; играть с мыслью о чем-либо; усваивать, понимать; щедрый, расточительный;
добросовестный, сознательный, честный (об отношении к чему-л.); высокомерный,
надменный (разг.); опухоль, новообразование.
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the following definitions:
a)1. soaked with liquid; 2. moist and heavy;
b)a minor quarrel;
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c)1. having a proud and superior attitude; 2. (Slang) contemptible;
d)1. lacking the power to speak; 2. lacking the power of human speech; 3. temporarily unable to speak; 4. done or performed without speech; 5. (Informal) stupid or slow to understand;
e)a roll or bundle of banknotes or papers;
f)1. a person who studies an academic subject; 2. a student who has a scholarship; 3. a pupil.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Не нужно так язвительно шутить по поводу его образования! Он этого
не любит.
b)Ты похожа на привидение в этом мокром платье.
c)На самом деле у нее нет никакого рака, и не нужно впадать в панику.
Это небольшое новообразование может быстро исчезнуть при правильном лечении.
d)Твой дед всегда был щедрым хозяином. Правда, он не любил, когда кто-
нибудь злоупотреблял его гостеприимством.
e)Эта пустая одинокая комната сводит меня с ума.
f)Он пожал мне руку с таким высокомерным видом, что я почувствовал себя совершенно отвратительно.
g)Он просто вводит меня в состояние транса своими неумными
вопросами!
h)Он сломал палец, и наш дворник отвел его в медпункт.
i)Тебе лучше надеть шапку с ушами, а не эту легкую кепку. На улице очень холодно.
j)Когда водитель такси прибыл на место, он увидел, что пассажир крепко
спит.
k)Он очень добросовестный ученик и хорошо усваивает новый материал.
VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary (Vocabulary exercises I-II) for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
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VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“I gave her a good look. She didn't look like any dope to me. She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what a bastard she was the mother of. But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. The thing is, though, I liked old Morrow's mother. She was all right. “Would you care for a cigarette?” I asked her.
She looked all around. “I don't believe this is a smoker, Rudolf,” she said. Rudolf. That killed me.
“That's all right. We can smoke till they start screaming at us,” I said. She took a cigarette off me, and I gave her a light.
She looked nice, smoking. She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do. She had a lot of charm. She had quite a lot of sex appeal, too, if you really want to know.
She was looking at me sort of funny. I may be wrong but I believe your nose is bleeding, dear, she said, all of a sudden.
I nodded and took out my handkerchief. “I got hit with a snowball,” I said.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)It partly scared me and it partly fascinated me.
b)I hardly ever went over to his room.
c)He looked sort of spooky in the dark.
d)You could hear him putting away his crumby toilet articles and all, and opening the window.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“What the hell happened to you?”
b)“What’s the routine on joining a monastery?”
c)“He adapts himself very well to things.”
d)“I don’t believe this is a smoker, Rudolf.”
e)“They can take it out in about two minutes.”
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XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)Stradlater was a goddam genius next to Ackley.
b)Boy, did that annoy me.
c)He certainly was a bore about that.
d)What a witty guy.
e)He was the perfect host, boy.
f)He was a fresh-air fiend.
g)I didn’t want to hang around in that stupid atmosphere anymore.
h)I’d go home all rested up and feeling swell.
i)She’s not too bad after she gets something thoroughly digested, though.
j)Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
k)When I was all set to go ...
l)Women kill me.
m)A nice telephone voice, mostly.
n)He’s really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys.
o)I had her glued to her seat.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.5 Unit 5“The first thing I did when I got off … the stupidest of the three of them.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Booth, to trim, to be halfway through, to check in (the hotel), pervert, bellboy, to pull down the shades, wallet, whore, mature, to get in touch with smb, approximately, to foul up, affectionate, putrid, to hold against, to strain oneself to do smth.
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