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One of Those Days
Terry: Morning, Steve.
Steve: Morning, Terry. __ Mr. Peters __ yet?
Terry: I haven’t seen him this morning, but he should be upstairs in his
offi ce by now.
Steve: By the way, that is your green Ford at a parking meter outside,
isn’t it?
Terry: Yes, why?
Steve: There’s a traffi c warden _______ a parking ticket __ it.
Terry: What? There can’t be. The time hasn’t _______ yet. I only parked
it there about 45 minutes ago.
Steve: Well, those meters are only for half an hour’s parking, you know.
Terry: Blast! If I run down quickly and move it now, I wonder if I can
____ him _______ removing the ticket.
Steve: There’s no chance of that, Terry. These wardens never cancel
a ticket once they have _______ it ___.
Terry: Damn! It’s _______ today. I went to a party last night and _______
with a hangover this morning. I tripped and twisted my ankle
_______ downstairs, I mislaid my keys and spent twenty minutes
fi nding them, and I left home without any breakfast because I was
late. And now this.
Steve: Well, you shouldn’t drink so much. _______ you don’t have to
worry about the car now. Since you’ll have to pay the ___ anyway,
you _______ leave it where it is for the rest of the morning.
Terry: I suppose that is a small consolation, but I really ought to ____ to
bed.
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match each term to its defi nition. The answers may
be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b etc.
1. at the expense of a. when several unpleasant things have
happened to smb. in one day
2. be in b. then smth is not available
3. be off c. to watch around the place where you are
all the time
4. it’s just not my day d. means that smth. may be achieved by
harming the other thing
5. keep smb under control e. to some degree, partly
6. run out f. to persuade smb. to do smth.
7. no longer g. to arrive at a place
8. talk into h. when smth. used to happen in the past but
doesn’t happen now
9. to such an extent i. to start going or travelling somewhere
10. turn up j. to make smb’s activity to be limited
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases in
the previous four exercises.
1. Студенты обычно сопротивляются, когда получают дополнитель-
ные задания.
2. «Здесь нельзя ставить машины», — сказал полицейский, — «вам
придется заплатить штраф за парковку».
3. Если вы согласны, я могу выписать вам чек.
4. Преступность (criminal behaviour) выросла до такой степени, что
многие граждане боятся вечером выходить на улицу.
5. Торопись — мы должны успеть
на поезд № ...
6. Сегодня у него неудачный день: что бы он ни предпринимал, все
рушится (to fail).
7. Дети очень плохо себя вели, и учитель сказал, что больше в этом
классе он работать не будет.
8. Они увеличили выпуск продукции за счет ухудшения ее каче-
ства.
9. — Счетчик (parking meter) показывает, что вы должны заплатить
еще десять долларов.
— Нет, счетчик работает неправильно. Время моей парковки еще
не окончилось.
10. Я прошу тебя вернуться как можно быстрее.
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Unit 24
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in the letter with the suitable expressions
in the box below. Make any changes, if necessary:
at all, go through, carry out, moreover, connect up, see fi t, enclosed
bill, take smb’s word for, at your earliest convenience
A Formal Complaint
16 Manor Road,
Harpole,
Hants,
22nd January
The Sales Manager,
Sparks Electrical Suppliers Ltd.,
13 South Street,
Southampton.
Dear Sir,
On Tuesday you sent one of your fi tters to install the dish-washing machine
we purchased from your company recently. Although you had assured us that
we would not have to pay extra for installation, your workman told us that we
had to have a new tap and various electrical fi ttings before he could _______
the machine __.
Naturally we had to _______ it, and we told him to _______ ____ the
necessary work.
The bill he presented us with afterwards seemed exorbitant, so we _______
it and checked the prices of the items. We found that else where the identical
articles were little more than half the price he had charged us. _______ , we
have since discovered that we need not have had a new tap _______ .
We trust, therefore, that _______ you will send an other man to exchange
the new tap for the old one again. We also hope that, after examining the
_______ carefully, you will _______ to reduce the prices considerably, as well
as to deduct the price of the new tap.
Yours faithfully, Mrs. C. Jones
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable expressions
in the box below. Make any changes, if possible:
a dozen, go wrong, after all, in the end, apparently, it doesn’t matter,
at least, pay up, bargain for, take… in, be in a good shape, twice
as much, be sure, underneath, emergency repair, worry about, fast
workers, wrong, fl at
Garages
Ted: Did you take your car to Greenham’s garage to be repaired, Bill?
Bill: Yes, the day before yesterday. It _______ again now. _______ , I
needn’t have _______ that terrible rattling noise _______ . It was
only a loose wire and they fi xed it in two minutes ____.
Ted: Was there anything else _______ ?
Bill: Oh, yes. They found about _______ other things that needed replacing.
Ted: That’s always the way. You ____ the car __ for one reason and they
fi nd that everything else is wrong. _______ you pay _______ as you
_______ . But _______ Greenham’s people are _______ .
Bill: Yes, thank goodness! We had to go to Birmingham yesterday and I
thought I’d have to hire a car or borrow someone else’s, but my own
car was ready in time, so I didn’t need to hire one _______ .
Ted: Of course, Greenham may be fast, but he’s expensive too. I didn’t
have to go to him, of course. I think I’ll try some where else next
time something _______ .
Bill: _______ where else you try. All garages are ex pensive these days.
You just have to _______ . There’s nothing else you can do.
Ted: And sometimes you can’t even _______ that they’ve done the job
you’ve asked them to do. Last year I had to take my car into a garage
in Brighton for an _______ , and I wasn’t even allowed to stand in the
repair shop and watch while they did it. Union rules or something.
Bill: Well, they probably didn’t want you to see how simple the job was
before they gave you the bill.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable expressions
in the box below. Make any changes, if necessary:
a lightning visit, go to the expense, anyone else, go up, bring back,
great, by the way, let me see, check-in, look round, delay, lose, do
shopping, nothing much, do with oneself, run out, either, take-off
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A Flying Visit
Mum: Hello, Mike. Did you enjoy the weekend in Paris?
Mike: Yes, it was ___, Mum. Look, I’ve ____ you ___ some wine, and
here are some cigarettes for Dad.
Mum: Thank you, dear. That’s lovely. But you needn’t have _______
_______ .
Mike: Well, I don’t often buy you presents, but I don’t often go to Paris
_______ .
Mum: Tell me about it. What did you _______ ?
Mike: Well, we had quite a good fl ight, and we got to the hotel at about
seven o’clock. We had a super dinner, and then Clive, Tim and I
went to a night-club.
Mum: Didn’t _______ go with you?
Mike: No, no one else wanted to come. All the others were too tired. Then
on Saturday morning we ____ some _______ , and of course we
watched the international rugby match in the afternoon. The match
was drawn, but England were lucky not to _______ .
Mum: Where else did you go? Didn’t you _______ the Louvre?
Mike: Yes, but it was _______ . And we _______ the Eiffel Tower too,
of course. But we didn’t have time for much else. We were told we
were not to be late for _______ at the airport and we had to rush
like mad. When we got there, though, we found we needn’t have
hurried because _______ had been _______ for an hour.
Mum: What else did you buy then?
Mike: _______ ... A few souvenirs, some postcards, a bottle of perfume for
Janet... _______ else because I ____ ___ of money. _______ , can
you lend me a couple of pounds until next week, Mum?
Mum: So that’s the price of my French wine, is it?
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match them each term to its defi nition. The answers
may be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b
etc.
1. at your earliest
convenience
2. connect up b. used to say that smb. shall accept what you
a. to be anxious or unconvenience happy about
smth. so that you think about it a lot
say as true
3. do with oneself c. to look at what is in a place such as a building,
shop, town, etc, esp. when you are walking
4. fl at d. as soon as possible (usually in offi cial letters)
5. go through e. to consider an action to be right and sensible
6. go to the expense f. to spend one’s time doing smth.
7. look round (around) g. to spend money for smth.
8. see fi t h. very quickly (used after expressions like
these: three, fi ve minutes (seconds) etc)
9. take smb.’s word for i. to read a document from beginning to end
10. worry about j. to join smth. to the main supply of electricity,
gas, water etc.
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases in
the previous four exercises.
1. Регистрация авиапассажиров задерживается на два часа.
2. Мы будем вам благодарны, если вы ответите на наше письмо как
можно быстрее.
3. Конрад (Conrad) внимательно просмотрел счет и нашел, что он
непомерно большой.
4. Она заплатила за товар в два раза больше,
чем он стоил.
5. Мы полностью израсходовали в ресторане все деньги и даже не
могли взять такси.
6. Марта (Martha) почувствовала запах дыма и позвонила в пожарную
службу (fi re brigade) через две минуты.
7. Чем ты занимался, когда был безработным?
8. Мэгги (Maggie) привезла из Соединенных Штатов интересные
сувениры.
9. Вы сломали мою машину, и вы
должны ее починить, что бы вы ни
считали (whatever).
10. В конце концов, вам пришлось покинуть наш город, как вы и пред-
полагали.
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Unit 25
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in the text with the suitable forms of phrasal
verbs or other expressions in the box below. Make any changes,
if necessary:
at top speed, hasten into, awake with, keep smth. in check, beat out,
let... in/out, be on fi re, put out, climb into, shut… behind, fan by, stagger
into, fi ll with, take…leave, fortunately, without delay
Mr. Williams’ Diary. The Fire
February 6, Sunday
It must have been after two o’clock in the morning when the last guests ____
their ________ , and although we had enjoyed their company, my wife and I were
quite thankful to ____ the door ________ them. We left all the dirty dishes and
glasses as they were, and, after opening a few windows to ____ some fresh air
____ and the smell of stale tobacco ___, we ________ bed and fell asleep.
I couldn’t have been asleep for more than half an hour when I ___ ________
a strong smell of smoke in my nostrils. Still half asleep, I __ ________ the
lounge, and there, through dense clouds of smoke, I saw that one of the curtains
________ . I should have closed the windows then ________ , but instead I
tried to ________ the fl ames with a folded news-paper. When this failed I
________ the kitchen to grab a bucket and ____ it ____ water. At the same
time I shouted to Barbara, who hurriedly dialled 999 to summon the fi re brigade
before coming to my aid. We had to work ________ carrying buckets of water
from the kitchen to prevent the fl ames, ________ the breeze from the windows,
from spreading. We were unable to extinguish the fi re but we managed to ____
it partially ________ until the arrival of the fi remen. Fortunately, they arrived
promptly and they had little diffi culty in ________ the fl ames.
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable expressions
in the box below. Make any changes, if possible:
at the time, it serves smb. right, be in a mess, last, be lucky, on purpose,
be surprised at, set fi re, be suspicious of, the longer... the less, blind drunk,
throw a party, burn down, wake up, claim from, What about, either
Mutual Feelings
Mrs. Jones: Oh, look! It’s snowing, Mrs. Smith!
Mrs. Smith: So it is! I can’t remember when it ____ snowed.
Mrs. Jones: It snowed in April two years ago. It was Easter week;
I remember it well.
Mrs. Smith: Oh yes! So it did. It must have been the second week in
April — my sister from Scotland was here ________ .
Mrs. Jones: ________ the fi re at the Williams’s house last Saturday! Did
you see it?
Mrs. Smith: Yes. Terrible, wasn’t it? The fi reengine ____ me __ at about three
in the morning. They ________ the whole house didn’t ________
. Their living room ____ ____ awful ____ next morning.
Mrs. Jones: Well, ________ . They were ________ another of those wild
________ , weren’t they? They must have been ________ ;
they should have been more careful.
Mrs. Smith: You know, I think they may have ________ to the place
________ — just to ________ new furniture and car pets ___
the insurance company.
Mrs. Jones: I wouldn’t ________ anything they did. I’ve always ________
them, and the longer I know them the more I dislike them. I’m
glad I didn’t go to their party.
Mrs. Smith: Why didn’t you go, Mrs. Jones?
Mrs. Jones: Well, we weren’t invited actually, but I had to go to my
sister’s that evening anyway.
Mrs. Smith: We weren’t invited ____. I suspect that ________ they live
here ________ they like us too, Mrs. Jones.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable expressions
in the box below. Make any changes, if possible:
a bit of fi re, check... before, all over, clear up, at smb’s expense, confi ne
to, be very careless of, drop on, be blackened by, feel sure, be for sure,
stand by, careless sort of chap, the more... the more
Find the Culprit
Mr. Fielding: Hello, Charles. I hear you had ________ after the party last
week. Was there much damage?
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Mr. Williams: Well, fortunately we managed to ________ all the damage
____ the one room, so it wasn’t too bad really. The carpets
and curtains were ruined, and the walls and ceiling ________
smoke, so we had to redecorate the room completely.
Mr. Fielding: It must have been a cigarette-end, I suppose.
Mr. Williams: Yes, that ________ . Someone must have ________ a
cigarette __ the carpet near the big window, and after
we’d gone the curtains caught fi re. We ought to have ____
everything ________ going to bed, I know, but we were so
tired we decided to ________ in the morning. We shouldn’t
have left the windows open either.
Mr. Fielding: Have you any idea who the culprit was? It ________ of
someone.
Mr. Williams: It might have been Ted Redman. He is a chain-smoker and
he’d had one or two too many.
Mr. Fielding: It can’t have been me anyway; I’m a non-smoker. But it may
well have been old Bill Coleman. ____
________ I think about it, ________ I ________ that he
was ________ that window most of the time towards the
end of the party.
Mr. Williams: So he was! And he’s a ________ — he fl icks his cigarette
ash ________ the place. And the more he drinks the worse
he gets.
Mr. Fielding: Still, you can’t very well accuse him of it — it could have
been anyone.
Mr. Williams: True. Besides, I can’t complain; our room was repainted
________ insurance company’s ________ .
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match them each term to its defi nition. The answers
may be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b
etc.
1. awake with a. to be very untidy or dirty, very disorganized or
full of problems
2. beat out b. to offi cially demand and receive money from
an organization
3. be blackened by c. to make a fi re burn more strongly by the wind
or in some another way
4. be in a mess d. to think that smb. might be guilty of doing
smth. wrong or dishonest
5. claim from e. to wake up because of a noise, bad smell etc.
6. clear up f. to become black because of covering a surface
of smth. with smoke, dust or soot
7. fan by g. to put out a fi re by beating it
8. it serves smb. right h. to make a place look tidier by putting things
back where they belong
9. keep smth. in check i. used to say that you check think smb. deserving
it if smth. unpleasant happens to smb., because
smb. has been stupid or unwise
10. be suspicious of j. to keep smth. under control
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases in
the previous four exercises.
1. Ваш фотоаппарат испорчен — он пропускает свет.
2. Мы попрощались и покинули дом нашего старого друга.
3. Это тип беззаботного человека: каждый раз он что-нибудь те ряет.
4. Когда бы я ни пришел к ним, всегда у них беспорядок.
5. На прошлой неделе мы
устроили вечеринку.
6. Правильно, что их забрали в полицию — это послужит им хоро-
шим уроком.
7. Никто наверняка не знает, что же будет завтра.
8. Он не ошибся, а сделал это с определенной целью.
9. Открытые окна способствовали усилению пожара.
10. Я подозреваю, что Джон украл мои письма.
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