Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfc)Their servants should enter the house through … .
d)Judging by the gloomy expression on his face he … in what he was doing.
e)Why don’t you want to … skating? You liked it in your childhood.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Gumption, resolutely, lightsomely, to hint, to owe, indulgently, crisply, leniently, to
suggest, cross, gracefully, to be bound, disregard, peevish, common sense, neglect.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Впредь эта сердитая женщина не будет донимать его постоянными
ссорами.
b)Держись подальше от этой компании! Мне никогда не нравилось умонастроение этих людей.
c)Она склонна реагировать слишком бурно на его резкий голос.
d)Они не знали о его вечных проблемах.
e)Деловая часть Нового Орлеана - это старый квартал к северу от канала.
f)Она собиралась бросить ему эту фразу прямо в лицо.
g)Он посмотрел на нее с видом человека, который знает все на свете.
h)Она сильно ослабела после болезни, но никто никогда не слышал от нее
жалоб.
i)На что вы намекаете?
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“They were pretty hands, of a shapeliness delicate and fine. "The best things she's got!" a cold-blooded girl friend said of them, and meant to include Alice's mind and character in the implied list of possessions surpassed by the notable hands. However that may have been, the rest of her was well enough. She was often called "a right pretty girl" - temperate praise meaning a girl rather pretty than otherwise, and this she deserved, to say the least. Even in repose she deserved it, though repose was anything but her habit, being seldom seen upon her except at home. On exhibition she led a life of gestures, the unkind said to make her lovely hands more memorable; but all of her usually accompanied the gestures of the hands, the shoulders ever giving them their impulses first, and even her feet being called upon, at the same time, for eloquence.”
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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)But it was his wife who came first.
b)That’s what you are hinting at.
c)And if he once does that, he’ll settle down there.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Tomorrow it’ll be May night air, and I expect that’ll be a lot better for you,
don’t you?”
b)“Oh, you’re better again! I can see that, as soon as I look at you.”
c)“That’s what you’re hinting at.”
d)“PLEASE don’t leave it open for everybody to look at me!”
e)“Nothing seems to trouble you!”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Every evening Mr. Adams told the nurse that …
b)Mr. Adams took no pleasure in the sight of the nurse rising from her cot
because …
c)Mrs. Adams kept up the affectation of being preoccupied with the table, and did not look at her husband – perhaps because …
d)Before the moment of her mother’s entrance, Alice had been playing with …
e)Walter hated …
f)Alice was going out because she wanted …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What can you say about the Adams’s family judging by their first description
in the chapter?
b)Was Mr. Adams an obedient patient? What can you say about his character?
c)Was the “generation gap” problem acute for this family? Prove your point of
view using the quotations from the text.
d)What was the reason of Mrs. Adam’s constant ding-donging at her husband?
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e)What was Alice’s attitude toward her mother’s behaviour?
f)Were Alice and Walter different? Why couldn’t Walter enter a college?
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.
2.2 Unit 2“Mrs. Adams had remained in Alice’s room … let him make up his mind for himself.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Momentary, to make a tragedy out of smth, resignation, relic, flimsily, etching, opulent, wan, unworded thought, to give over smth, ignoble, to fail to do smth, hilarity, outsider, to be snippy about smth, to make up one’s mind to do smth, to be at the head of smth, customary, to quit doing smth, to hunt around for smth, to falter.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Ловить воздух, задохнуться; снова наполнять(ся); заметный, бросающийся в глаза; домоводство; жестокость, свирепость; непослушно, капризно; дерзость,
непочтительность; предвестник; искусственный; незамедлительный, мгновенный;
высказывать догадку, предполагать; безмятежность, спокойствие.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)savagely fierce or cruel behaviour;
b)1. having or indicating wealth, 2. abundant or plentiful;
c)to guess (something) from incomplete or uncertain evidence;
d)1. to be hesitant, weak, or unsure, 2. to speak nervously and without
confidence;
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e)1. clearly visible , 2. noteworthy or striking.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)This statue is magnificent! Put it in some … place for everybody to see it.
b)Mr. Brown was … the business three years ago. But after his … our firm
started falling into decay.
c)He drank his coffee and asked her to … the cup.
d)If you don’t … this occupation, you’ll become an … in your family.
e)So, what’s your decision? – I … to accept his offer.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Hilarity, ferocity, snippy, to suppose, remain, to stammer, scrappy, harbinger,
savageness, relic, herald, impiety, merriment, irreverence, ignoble, to falter, foul, to
surmise.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Эту гравюру нужно повесить на самом видном месте. Это наша семейная реликвия.
b)Джин не питает склонности к ведению домашнего хозяйства. Она решила искать интересную работу в городе.
c)Он запнулся, и его мысль так и осталась невысказанной.
d)Не думаю, что из этого незамедлительного отъезда нужно делать
трагедию.
e)Он воспринял эти новости с безмятежным спокойствием, а его жена – с
радостью и весельем.
f)Я полагаю, что этот человек не входит в их компанию.
g)Я бы посоветовал тебе бросить курить.
h)В его тусклых глазах появилось привычное тоскливое выражение.
i)Он хотел поступить в университет, но потерпел неудачу на экзаменах.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“The small frame house, about fifteen years old, was already inclining to become a new Colonial relic. The Adamses had built it, moving into it from the "Queen Anne"
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house they had rented until they took this step in fashion. But fifteen years is a long time to stand still in the midland country, even for a house, and this one was lightly made, though the Adamses had not realized how flimsily until they had lived in it for some time. "Solid, compact, and convenient" were the instructions to the architect, and he had made it compact successfully. Alice, pausing at the foot of the stairway, was at the same time fairly in the "living-room," for the only separation between the "living room" and the hall was a demarcation suggested to willing imaginations by a pair of wooden columns painted white. These columns, pine under the paint, were bruised and chipped at the base; one of them showed a crack that threatened to become a split; the "hard-wood" floor had become uneven; and in a corner the walls apparently failed of solidity, where the wall-paper had declined to accompany some staggerings of the plaster beneath it.”
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)I think the best thing for you to do would be to just keep out of his room.
b)Sometimes you act as if he weren’t getting well.
c)Everything else but your father has changed.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Don’t go making tragedy out of my offering you a little practical advice!”
b)“Your father wants to know if you’ll come and see him a minute, Miss
Adams.”
c)“They call me their “oldest stand-by” down there.”
d)“Well, doesn’t he hurt us?”
e)“Walter doesn’t cost him anything at all anymore.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Every year Mr. Adams’s Christmas present to his wife was …
b)All depression left Alice as she …
c)Alice bought a cane because …
d)Alice compared men with sheep because …
e)Alice felt sorry for her father because …
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f)Mrs. Adams thought her husband hurt his family because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What did the house of the Adamses look like?
b)Why was the particular ugliness of the house small part of Alice’s discontent?
c)What became Alice’s consolation after her encounter with Mrs. Dowling?
d)Why did Alice suddenly feel her life spoilt?
e)What was Mr. Adams’s attitude to his work at Lamb and Company?
f)Why did Alice think they were to leave Mr. Adams alone?
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.
2.3 Unit 3“With this, having more immediately practical questions … And those pearls -”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
To drop the subject, whimsical, profanity, incumbent, demure, to ransack every foot, to be tired all over, to be a society snake, to retort, testily, to run after smb, rapturous, to pry in (into) smb’s affairs, refutation, to divest oneself of smth, in a noncommittal manner.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Приспособление, устройство; стараться, прилагать усилия; судорожно,
порывисто; горький, мучительный; участь, судьба; (не)многословный человек;
упрашивать, уговаривать; блеск, великолепие; прогноз, пророчество; кавалер,
бойфренд; маленький дешевый автомобиль; в пользу чего-либо (кого-либо).
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III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)a person who holds a particular office or position;
b)1. sharply painful to the feelings, 2. cutting, 3. pertinent in mental appeal;
c)1. the quality of being profane, 2. coarse or blasphemous action or speech;
d)to persuade (someone) gently;
e)1. an ingenious device, 2. an elaborate or deceitful plan.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)After climbing up that hill she was … .
b)They … of the forest for the missing child but found nobody.
c)When she started telling tales, everybody got surprised as she was not …
d)Where did you take this …? It’s on the point of falling to pieces!
e)The conversation was unpleasant and he tried to… .
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Poignant, to coax, radiance, eccentric, fitfully, demure, to entreat, sober,
confutation, beau, feverishly, admirer, refutation, whimsical, painful, splendour.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Твое шутливое пророчество об этом устройстве не сбылось.
b)Будучи немногословным человеком, Джон не был признан настоящим светским львом, но он обладал хорошим чувством юмора и мог легко отпарировать колкое замечание в свой адрес.
c)Пожалуйста, постарайся уговорить отца не вмешиваться в дела сестры и
еекавалера.
d)Публика встретила певца восторженными аплодисментами.
e)Ее размышления об участи брата были довольно мучительны.
f)Твоя бабушка была эксцентричной молодой особой. Многие парни ухаживали за ней, но она сделала выбор в пользу твоего дедушки.
g)Она обыскала всю квартиру, но ключи как сквозь землю провалились.
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h)Эта новая машина - само великолепие! Конечно, ее нельзя сравнить с тем маленьким дешевым автомобилем, который был у нас раньше.
i)Хелен сняла плащ и прошла в гостиную.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“She was a large, fair girl, with a kindness of eye somewhat withheld by an expression of fastidiousness; at first sight of her it was clear that she would never in her life do anything "incorrect," or wear anything "incorrect." But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved; conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them. And behind this perfection there was an even ampler perfection of what Mrs. Adams called "background." The big, rich, simple house was part of it, and Mildred's father and mother were part of it. They stood beside her, large, serene people, murmuring graciously and gently inclining their handsome heads as they gave their hands to the guests; and even the youngest and most ebullient of these took on a hushed mannerliness with a closer approach to the bower.
When the opportunity came for Alice and Walter to pass within this precinct, Alice, going first, leaned forward and whispered in Mildred's ear. "You DIDN'T wear the maize georgette! That's what I thought you were going to. But you look simply DARLING! And those pearls - "
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the patterns in a short dialogue.
a) No matter how commonplace or disappointing other dances nights have been this one may bring the great meeting.
b) We won’t let Mr. Adams know anything’s the matter till I get a new one.
c) Please leave this with your things in the men’s dressing-room, as if it were an extra one of your own.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of them into indirect speech.
a)“I says goo’ – BYE!”
b)“Background? What kind of talk is that?”
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c)“Purely and simply a vision!”
d)“Our car broke down outside the gate.”
e)“But you look simply DARLING!”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)When the lunch-gong sounded downstairs Alice was still …
b) After a while, as Alice worked, her eyes grew dreamy: she saw herself …
c)Alice took a car to the outskirts of the city because …
d)Mrs. Perry called Alice …
e)Alice didn’t speak, and Walter began to be remorseful for …
f)Alice wanted Walter to live the car outside because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What was wrong with the Adamses’ lunch-gong?
b)Where did Alice get flowers to wear?
c)Why was that evening so important for Alice?
d)How did Mrs. Adams manage to persuade Walter to go to the dance with
Alice?
e)Where did Walter get the car to drive Alice to the dance?
f)What can you say about Mildred? What kind of “background” did she have?
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.
2.4 Unit 4 “Others were crowding decorously forward … She had been a belle too soon.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
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Rigidity, the exchange of courtesies, agility, to be in with smb, to adopt smb, saucily, to give smb the eye, to make smth over, to betray smb, rustic, indomitable, to watch smth / smb from a sidelong eye, niggardliness, to get smb / smth off one’s hands, to be on excellent terms with smb, reserved, inscrutable, to talk a blue streak, to send smb upon an errand, preemption.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Близость, тесные отношения; величественный, полный достоинства (2 var.);
уменьшаться, утихать; подчинять, подавлять; брачный период; покинуть в беде; с
первого взгляда; обращенный в прошлое; не получать подтверждения; лепетать,
болтать; совершенно неожиданно; проказливо, шаловливо; знать, как добиться своего, сверстник, ровесник.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)to chatter in a foolish or childish way;
b)1. of or resembling country people, 2. of or living in the country, 3. crude, awkward, or uncouth, 4. made of untrimmed branches;
c)close or warm friendship;
d)too strong to be defeated or discouraged;
e)1. looking back in time, 2. applying from a date in the past.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)Where is John? - The head of our department … but he’ll be back soon.
b)They have been intimate friends since their childhood and are still ...
c)People of the same age are called …
d)What a talkative person she is! She … and you can’t put in a word into this
stream of sentences!
e) On the contrary, her brother is very … . You can’t get a single word out of
him!
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
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