Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfкому-либо; гостиная, общая комната (в квартире); откладывать, отсрочивать;
выносить, терпеть, мириться.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)to delay, stop, or guard against beforehand;
b)soft and limp;
c)to become worse;
d)an unpredictable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour;
e)feeling or expressing sorrow or regret.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)If you can't keep any secret from a person, it means that you ….
b)When a person is too ambitious, we say that he or she … .
c)They … their meeting because of Mike’s absence.
d)Why are you always … me? Mary says I’m doing everything right.
e)I’m not going to … these silly tricks of yours any more. Let’s crack this problem … .
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
Rampage, archly, vivacity, to postpone, refined, vagary, exquisite, jocosely,
crocheted, freak, rueful, knitted, sprightliness, to adjourn, doleful, to bear, frenzy, to put up
with.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Кому нравятся люди, которые считают, что льстить начальнику –
лучший способ заставить его полностью доверять тебе?
b)Кроме того, на лесть может купиться только человек, который слишком много о себе воображает.
c)Кэт очень нравилась ее новая подруга. Она была изящной и очень
опрятной.
d)Вы можете пройти к нему, но учтите, что выздоравливающий еще очень слаб! Думаю даже, что вам все-таки лучше отложить свой визит к нему.
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e)Она быстро скинула с себя старый халат и надела свое любимое платье.
f)- Почему она такая унылая?
-Думаю, ей пришлось признать, что пора спуститься с небес на землю
иоставить эти глупые мечты о карьере модели.
-Но ведь мысль об этом вернула ее к жизни после развода с мужем!
-Это просто ее очередной каприз.
g)Согревшись, Джон убрал руки от огня и решил немного перекусить.
h)Не стоит так горько рыдать из-за такой ерунды.
i)Помоги, пожалуйста, дедушке починить забор в огороде.
j)Это ваша гостиная?
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“The fine old gentleman revealed when she opened the door was probably the last great merchant in America to wear the chin beard. White as white frost, it was trimmed short with exquisite precision, while his upper lip and the lower expanses of his cheeks were clean and rosy from fresh shaving. With this trim white chin beard, the white waistcoat, the white tie, the suit of fine gray cloth, the broad and brilliantly polished black shoes, and the wide-brimmed gray felt hat, here was a man who had found his style in the seventies of the last century, and thenceforth kept it. Files of old magazines of that period might show him, in woodcut, as, "Type of Boston Merchant"; Nast might have drawn him as an honest statesman. He was eighty, hale and sturdy, not aged; and his quick blue eyes, still unflecked, and as brisk as a boy's, saw everything.”
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… he half rose as if to come forward in greeting.
b)Of course he knows it wouldn’t do anything of the kind, or else he’d have
done it long ago.
c)All I can do is cry, while your father sits upstairs.
d)I’d be willing never to have a maid again.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
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a)“You HAVE been at him about it!”
b)“Now, who do you suppose that is?”
c)“What you trying to do the polite with ME for?”
d)“My, but you ARE all dressed up!”
e)“Mustn’t mind what?”
f)“My cousin Mildred gave it.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)The secret formula of a good glue belonged to …
b)J. A. Lamb usually stopped …
c)Mrs. Adams failed to share Alice’s opinion about Mr. Lamb because …
d)One of the conclusions Alice drew from her life experience was …
e)Russell came when …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Why did Mrs. Adams start the row again? What was she going to discuss with
Alice? What was Alice’s attitude towards the whole matter and her mother’s plans?
b)Who visited the Adamses on Thursday? What can you say about Mr. Lamb’s
character and appearance? Was he an amicable person? How did he treat Mr. Adams?
Why did Mr. Adams feel better after Mr. Lamb’s visit?
c) What “expectations” did Alice have? How can you prove that she really “had the expectations”? Who was depressed most of all after Russell hadn’t come to see Alice?
Was Alice herself upset and frustrated? With whom did the author compare Alice in that situation?
d)Was Alice envious of the laughter of other girls when she was sitting upon the steps of the veranda? Why? How does it characterize her as a person?
e)What did Alice and Mr. Russell talk about when he came?
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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2.8 Unit 8“I think I’d heard somewhere that you were … OH, my, my!”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Under the circumstances, shake-up, glamour, policy, dexterous, in earnest, to settle down to smth, to pull through, snippet, to belittle smb to smb, to hold one’s head up, impunity, gleam of hope, to be at the bottom of smth, to get even with smb, tauntingly, solace.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Противоречивый; избегать, воздерживаться; вдаваться в подробности;
веселье, радость; вторить, поддакивать, повторять; окружать таинственностью,
озадачивать; компаньонка, дуэнья; уступать, молча соглашаться; советовать,
убеждать, увещевать; докучать кому-либо; громко кричать на кого-либо;
мучительный, причиняющий боль.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)an older person who accompanies and supervises a young person or young people on social occasions;
b)1. comfort in misery or disappointment, 2. something that gives comfort or
consolation;
c)1. to confuse, bewilder, or puzzle, 2. to make obscure;
d)1. a plan of action adopted by a person, group, or government, 2. (Archaic) wisdom or prudence;
e)(of people) to repeat or imitate (what someone else has said).
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)It was a … trying to start living again after such a tragic disaster.
b)You always … me when you don’t know what to say! I do prefer to talk to
people who have their own opinion on any point!
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c)After his visit there appeared some … in her soul.
d)Tina is a stranger here. It’s very difficult for her to … to your rules.
e)I'd like to … the man who hurt my daughter.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
To acquiesce, fun, adroit, scoffingly, glamour, painful, mirth, to echo, to admonish, allure, consolation, dexterous, racking, to exhort, tauntingly, to give in, to repeat, solace.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Его показания по этому делу очень противоречивы.
b)Даже и не знаю, как ей удалось выпутаться из этой странной истории.
c)Я не уверен, но мне кажется, что за всем этим стоит именно он.
d)Твой рассказ не очень убедителен: он немало озадачил меня. Но при данных обстоятельствах мне придется поверить тому, что ты говоришь.
e)Выпуская ее на улицу с компаньонкой, ты унижаешь ее перед друзьями.
f)«Он довольно ловкий малый!» – насмешливо повторил Джек ее слова.
g)Видеть, что они молча соглашаются с этой безнаказанностью, довольно
мучительно.
h)Что мне сделать, чтобы все эти задаваки перестали докучать мне?
i)Она не вдавалась в подробности, когда рассказывала эту грустную
историю.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
"Adams leaned back in his chair as though her absurdity had eased his mind. "Oh, I see," he said. "You've just gone plain crazy. That's the only explanation of such talk, and it suits the case."
"Hasn't that man made us all suffer every day of our lives?" she demanded. "I'd like to know why it is that my life and my children's lives have to be sacrificed to him?"
"How are they 'sacrificed' to him?"
"Because you keep on working for him! Because you keep on letting him hand out whatever miserable little pittance he chooses to give you; that's why! It's as if he were some horrible old Juggernaut and I had to see my children's own father throwing them under the wheels to keep him satisfied."
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"I won't hear any more such stuff!" Lifting his paper, Adams affected to read. "You'd better listen to me," she admonished him. "You might be sorry you didn't, in
case he ever tried to set foot in my house again! I might tell him to his face what I think of him."
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)What a contradictory girl you are!
b)That’s just what I came here to talk about.
c)What I’ve come to ask you is, how much longer do you expect me to put up
with that old man and his doing?
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“You were in France, then?”
b)“You certainly do seem to know her!”
c)“Miss Lamb’s dance? Which Miss Lamb?”
d)“What are he and his family doing to your child?”
e)“What do I care for my word?”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Alice was glad Russell was in the War because …
b)Russell thought that he could pull through in fair spirits if …
c)Alice couldn’t promise to go with Russell to Henrietta’s dance because …
d)Mr. Adams thought his wife to have gone plain crazy because …
e)Mrs. Adams thought that Henrietta hadn’t invited Alice because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Why wasn’t Russell “sure he would like getting back into business again”?
How did the War influence his spirit? How could a girl like Alice help Russell to pull
through?
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b)Why did the news about the dance “fall chillingly” upon Alice? Why do you think she didn’t tell the truth to Russell? What did she say to Russell about why she couldn’t go to the dance? What did she feel at the moment?
c)Had Mrs. Adams interpreted the sob in Alice’s voice correctly? What did the
situation inspire her to do?
d)How did Mr. Adams react to his wife’s accusations? Was he really as egoistic
as his wife thought him to be? How did the row end?
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.
2.9 Unit 9 “There shone a jovial sun overhead … He promised heartily.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Appointed, to chatter one’s wittiest, to take a good turn, to leave smb at liberty to do smth, to chide smb, pother, to be of import, inspiration, to tell smth to smb by intimation, indulgent, veracity, enmeshed in smth, speck, shoe-string, by chance, to bewilder, dingy, to take pains to do smth.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Наделять, одарять чем-либо; насмехаться, высмеивать; избалованный,
изнеженный; сквернословить, плохо отзываться о ком-либо; ясновидящий; кризис,
критическое состояние; главная поддержка, опора; готовиться, затеваться; иметь предубеждение против кого-либо; наследница, преемница; приданое; благоразумие,
осторожность.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
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a)1. habitual truthfulness, 2. accuracy;
b)the property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage;
c)1. stimulation of the mind or feelings to activity or creativity, 2. a person or thing that causes this state;
d)a person claiming to have the power to foretell future events;
e)a chief support.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)They came just at the … hour.
b)On watching all this fuss one can easily understand that something extremely
funny … .
c)Helen often … him to me. I think she … against him.
d)The fisherman's line became … roots under the water.
e)Their only son had been … and spoiled by their excessive care and tutelage.
V. Match the synonymous pairs.
Veracity, blot, prudence, indulgent, to rebuke, embarrassed, discretion, dingy,
permissive, truth, pother, to chide, commotion, bewildered, squalid, speck.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Ее брат женился на какой-то богатой наследнице из Франции.
b)Не думаю, что могу судить об этом мероприятии объективно. У меня есть некоторое предубеждение против людей, которые с ним связаны.
c)“Все это совсем не важно в данной ситуации,” - сказала она Джону с
намеком.
d)Слава Богу, мое благоразумие и на этот раз взяло верх над эмоциями!
e)Она вела беседу очень остроумно: ее речь была просто опутана шутками и каламбурами.
f)Я чувствую, что наши отношения подошли к какому-то кризису, но мои попытки объясниться ставят нас обоих в тупик.
g)Ее мать часто упрекала ее в том, что она позволяет ребенку делать все,
что ему вздумается.
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h)Он прилагал все усилия, чтобы смыть пятно с репутации их семьи.
i)В старые времена девушка с большим приданым имела больше шансов выйти замуж.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
"After all isn't the end of a thought, is it?"
"Sometimes it is of a girl's thought; I suppose men are neater about their thoughts, and always finish 'em. It isn't the end of the thought I had then, though."
"What is the end of it?"
She looked at him impulsively. "Oh, it's foolish," she said, and she laughed as laughs one who proposes something probably impossible. "But, WOULDN'T it be pleasant if two people could ever just keep themselves TO themselves, so far as they two were concerned? I mean, if they could just manage to be friends without people talking about it, or talking to THEM about it?"
"I suppose that might be rather difficult," he said, more amused than impressed by her idea.
"I don't know: it might be done," she returned, hopefully. "Especially in a town of this size; it's grown so it's quite a huge place these days. People can keep themselves to themselves in a big place better, you know. For instance, nobody knows that you and I are taking a walk together today."
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)What does it matter whether poor little Alice Adams goes to a dance or not?
b)But what I want somebody to see is that I dance with you!
c)And, oh, I’d rather they didn’t make up things about me – to you!
d)Whatever they hope will get results.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Yes, but since he IS better - ”
b)“Would you really like to know the truth about it?”
c)“Look where I’ve led you!”
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d)“Sticky?”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)To Arthur Russell this was a day like …
b)Alice was an expert in …
c)Henrietta Lamb was giving the dance for …
d)Alice told Russell that she and Henrietta …
e)In Alice’s opinion, a girl only had to go down-town with a shoe-string
unfastened, and …
f)Alice and Arthur were not on exhibition during their walk because …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)Why was Arthur Russell pleased with the day and his companion? What was
Alice’s peculiar style of behaviour?
b)What did Russell persist in? He didn’t want to go to the dance without Alice
being there. Still, he was to go. Why?
c)What reason did Alice make up for her not to go to the dance? What did she
tell Arthur about her father’s business?
d)What was the presumptive story with the “unfastened shoe-string” told for? Why did Alice want Russell to be “careful”?
e)Why do you think Alice didn’t want them to be “on exhibition” during their
walk?
f)What promise did Arthur give to Alice?
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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