Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfanybody that could write like D. B. had no business going out to Hollywood. That's
exactly what I said, practically.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)…once you get started, you can’t just stop.
b)I could feel her shivering and all.
c)I almost wished they did, in a way.
d)I walked all the way downstairs, instead of taking the elevator.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”
b)“I’m improving, aren’t I?”
c)“I don’t like that, Phoebe. I don’t like that at all.”
d)“I don’t want to take your Christmas dough.”
e)“You don’t care to have somebody to stick to the point when he tells you
something?”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)… I said it anyway, just to make sure.
b)I listened, and I heard something, but it wasn’t too much.
c)I between numbers she’s funny as hell.
d)I had hardly any wind.
e)She was trying to get rid of her, you could tell.
f)I couldn’t help it.
g)She was lousy with dough.
h)… they were both very intellectual.
i)He was a pretty sophisticated guy, and he was a pretty heavy drinker.
j)So. You and Pencey are no longer one.
k)He sort of did it a little bit too much.
l)I didn’t feel much like going into it.
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m)I mean it’s dirty to keep yelling “Digression!” at him when he’s all nice and
excited.
n)One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question.
o)I mean he’d keep telling you to unify and simplify all the time.
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).
1.14 Unit 14“Coffee, gentlemen, finally,” … they used to have when I went there.”
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 peek at smb / smth, apparently, to be (very) hard / easy to talk to (to communicate with, to mix with, etc.), memorably, to supply smb with smth, to get past, reciprocal, measurement, to tuck in, to be done, ridiculous, to scoot, unsanitary, cabin, a hip pocket.
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.
Беспокоиться, заботиться о чем-либо / ком-либо; иногда, изредка;
формулировать, выражать словами, подбирать выражения; ничего не стоящий, не имеющий ценности, неоправданный; вести учет, записывать; иметь много общего с кем-либо; укладываться спать; незапертый (о двери); болезненный, воспаленный;
бензозаправочная станция.
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and
expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
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IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)to leave or move quickly;
b)1. painfully sensitive; tender; 2. causing annoyance and resentment; 3. upset and angered;
c)a small simple dwelling;
d)a place where petrol and other supplies for motorists are sold;
e)(Informal) to be exhausted;
f)to provide with something required;
g)1. to put (someone) to bed and make him or her snug; 2. to thrust the loose ends or sides of (something) into a confining space.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Ричард не был человеком, легким в общении. Иногда ему довольно трудно было выражать свои чувства словами.
b)Живя летом на даче, мы всегда укладывались спать поздно: нам нравилось гулять дотемна, любуясь звездами и дыша ароматным вечерним воздухом.
c)Он не такой уж и беспомощный! Я думаю, тебе не стоит так о нем беспокоиться.
d)Нечего заглядывать в ваши подарки до наступления Рождества!
e)Эта река снабжает пресной водой всю округу.
f)Она не так сильно пострадала в этой аварии, но болезненные ушибы и ссадины долгое время не позволяли ей выйти из дома.
g)Я думала, что это было сделано по их обоюдному согласию.
h)Дети не могут находиться в таких антисанитарных условиях! Я думаю,
что этот детский сад нужно закрыть до проведения капитального ремонта.
i)Молодые хозяйки часто ведут учет своих расходов. Это помогает правильно планировать бюджет семьи.
j)- Можно мне взять твой проездной билет?
-Конечно! Посмотри в заднем кармане моих брюк. Кажется, он там.
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k)У меня заканчивается бензин. Где здесь бензозаправочная станция?
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.
“Anyway, I kept walking and walking up Fifth Avenue, without any tie on or anything. Then all of a sudden, something very spooky started happening. Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine. I started sweating like a bastard—my whole shirt and underwear and everything. Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, “Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie, don't let me disappear. Please, Allie.” And then when I'd reach the other side of the street without disappearing, I'd thank him. Then it would start all over again as soon as I got to the next corner. But I kept going and all. I was sort of afraid to stop, I think—I don't remember, to tell you the truth. I know I didn't stop till I was way up in the Sixties, past the zoo and all. Then I sat down on this bench.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)He just keeps falling and falling.
b)I still have the paper he gave me.
c)He went over to his desk on the other side of the room, and without sitting down wrote something on a piece of paper.
d)It was nice of him to go to all that trouble.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“But you’re wrong about that hating business.”
b)“Oddly enough, this wasn’t written by a practicing poet.”
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c)“She’s all right. I had a date with her this afternoon.”
d)“How about keeping your voice down?”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)I didn’t cut any classes.
b)People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you are not.
c)The thing was, though, I didn’t feel much like concentrating.
d)… but I wasn’t too positive at the time.
e)You’re in love with knowledge.
f)… it’ll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.
g)Boy, I’ll bet I jumped about a thousand feet.
h)I knew Mr. Antolini was very smart and that he could make up something to
tell her.
i)And I think I was more depressed than I ever was in my whole life.
j)… maybe I was wrong about thinking he was making a flitty pass at me.
k)… my eyes were sore as hell.
l)It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.
m)It was fairly Christmasy.
n)Then, all of a sudden, something very spooky started happening.
o)I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in
people’s cars.
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).
1.15 Unit 15“Like somebody’d just taken a leak on them … you start missing everybody.”
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 hitch hike, to catch smb at doing smth, to rub off, to yell smth at smb, to come off, to have quite a lot of time to kill, mummy, to stick close to smb, to beg smb to do smth, to hit the road, to be all out of breath, to take smth off smb, nasty, to turn one’s back on smb, to cut out smth / doing smth, to watch smb out of the corner of one’s eye, gorgeous, carrousel.
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.
Делать что-либо незаметно (украдкой), таиться; наносить сильный удар,
ударять изо всех сил обо что-либо; нацарапанный ножом; показаться, появиться;
цветной мелок, карандаш; терять сознание (разг.); настойчиво утверждать,
настаивать (на чем-л. -on, upon); тащить, волочить; передумать, изменить решение;
притвориться, делать вид, дать понять.
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. strikingly beautiful or attractive; 2. (Informal) warm, sunny, and very
pleasant;
b)1. to make a determined demand (for); 2. to express a convinced belief (in) or assertion (of);
c)a small stick or pencil of coloured wax or clay;
d)to stop doing (something);
e)1. unpleasant; 2. dangerous or painful; 3. (of a person) spiteful or ill-natured;
f)1. to pull with force along the ground; 2. to trail on the ground;
g)an embalmed body as prepared for burial in ancient Egypt;
h)to become unconscious; faint.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a) Я чуть не упала в обморок, когда услышала эту новость!
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b)Я не настаиваю на том, чтобы ты устроился на работу в мою фирму, но надеюсь, что ты изменишь свое решение. Так будет лучше для нас обоих.
c)Впереди у меня было много свободного времени, и я решил пойти в музей
ипоглазеть на египетскую мумию.
d)Нацарапанная ножом надпись не отличалась особой оригинальностью.
e)Я хотел разрисовать стену его дома цветными мелками. Вот за этим занятием он меня и застал.
f)Чемодан был таким тяжелым, что мне пришлось тащить его по земле.
g)Я хочу путешествовать автостопом по Европе - планирую отправиться в путь через пару месяцев.
h)Я пыталась объяснить это Джону, но он повернулся ко мне спиной и не стал слушать.
i)Только не нужно делать вид, что ты меня не слышишь!
j)Я со всей силы ударил копилку об угол стола, и монетки разлетелись по всей комнате.
k)Вор незаметно вошел в комнату и вынес очень ценную старинную вазу.
VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary 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 all I'm going to tell about. I could probably tell you what I did after I went home, and how I got sick and all, and what school I'm supposed to go to next fall, after I get out of here, but I don't feel like it. I really don't. That stuff doesn't interest me too much right now.
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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D. B. isn't as bad as the rest of them, but he keeps asking me a lot of questions, too. He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking. Anyway, one time when she went to the ladies' room way the hell down in the other wing D. B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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 yelled “Good luck!” at me the same way old Spencer did when I left
Pencey.
b) … every time I sort of put my hand on her shoulder or something, she
wouldn’t let me.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Good luck!”
b)“Can’t your friend talk?”
c)“You know how the Egyptians buried their dead?”
d)“Feel it. It isn’t heavy.”
e)“You can wear it a while.”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)… and then finally some dirty kid would tell them…
b)I wouldn’t have the guts to do it.
c)She was very nice about it, the old lady.
d)I horsed around with the two of them a little bit.
e)I looked at the one that wasn’t doing any talking.
f)I almost fell over when she said that.
g)I was almost all set to hit her.
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h)That made her cry even harder.
i)… it was sort of a lousy day...
j)… she can certainly be very snotty when she wants to.
k)Kids are funny. You have to watch what you’re doing.
l)You could tell she wasn’t too sore at me anymore.
m)… beat-up-looking old horse.
n)That stuff doesn’t interest me too much right now.
o)She was pretty affected.
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).
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2 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
2.1 Unit 1“The patient, an old-fashioned man … in the shadow of the closing door.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Gumption, to keep out of smth (smb, doing smth), indulgently, to be aware of smth, to enfeeble, to be on the point of smth, to take (no) pleasure in smth, cross, to hint at smth, strident, repose, to fling the phrase at smb, crisply, from now on, to go for smb, to be apt to do smth, sallow, down-town.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Пренебрежение, игнорирование; окрестности (предместья); черный ход;
прислониться (подпирать); начать заниматься чем-либо; быть должным
(обязанным); вечный; умонастроение; донимать кого-то постоянными ссорами;
легко (грациозно); с видом человека, который …; никогда не слышать жалоб от кого-либо.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)(Brit: informal) common sense or initiative;
b)lack of attention or respect;
c)(of human skin) of an unhealthy pale or yellowish colour;
c)lasting throughout the year or through many years;
d)(Chiefly US, Canad. & NZ) the central or lower part of a city, esp. the main commercial area.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)His … of simple norms of human behaviour is shocking.
b)After a lingering illness his face became … .
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