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8. They‟ve walled ____ the electric sub-station for safety reasons. (Cam)
9. In those days people walled ____ their windows in order to avoid the win-
dows tax. (Cam)
10. Announcing that you are a Communist is like _ _____ ______ ___ ___
_____ to him. (Cam)
11. We‟ll _____ ______ __ _____ _______ for the Senator. (Cam)
12. Look, you‟ve embarrassed her – she ___ _____ _____ .
13. She was in _____________ ___________ of the true situation. (Cam)
14. You might get on better with your parents if you showed them some
__________. (Cam)
15. He could at least to have had the _________ to say sorry. (Cam)
16. The President welcomed the Queen with the usual __________. (Cam)
17. Did the Conservatives win __________ ___the division of the opposition
vote between Labour and the Liberal Democrats? (Cam)
Exercise № 3
Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word.
1. The motive for this shocking attack seems to be racial ________. (Cam)
2. What is very clear in this letter is Clark‟s passionate ____ of his father. (Cam)
3. After an afternoon of _______ boredom I was finally allowed to leave. (Cam)
4. Both fighters went into the ring with deep ___________ in their eyes.(Cam)
5. The girl clearly has __________ of her mother. (Cam)
6. He reacted to the idea of killing his rival with fear and _________. (Cam)
7. People were forced to leave their homes because of famine and _____. (Cam)
8. A raging _________ had broken out in the city, causing the death of hundreds
each day. (Cam)
9. The report states that vandalism is a _____ which must be stamped out. (Cam)
10. She has a deep _________to getting up in the morning. (Cam)
11. Greed is my pet _________ . (Cam)
12. Like most successful politicians, she can be ___________ and single-minded
in the pursuits of her goals. (Cam)
13. During the trial, the prosecution was accused of _________ crucial evidence
from the defence. (Cam)
14. She ___________ her rent until the landlord agreed to have her drains un-
locked. (Cam)
15. The government is planning to ___________ benefit payments from single
mothers who refuse to name the father of their child. (Cam)
16. As we grow up, the changes come upon us so slowly that they are almost
____________. (Cam)
17. It‟s __________ survival course in the mountains. (Cam)
18. They have just built some ___________ new apartment blocks on the sea-
front. (Cam)
19. She wears the most _____ color combinations you could ever imagine. (Cam)
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20. I‟ve had a _______ idea for getting round the regulations. (Cam)
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21. They were ________ in the way they got us to agree by showing how much
money we might lose by saying no. (Cam)
22. She opened her presents with _______. (Cam)
23. I could hear ________ voices next door but couldn‟t make out any words.
(Cam)
24. The ozone layer is a ________ which protects the earth against the sun's rad-
iation. (Cam)
25. I'm afraid I __________ to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake. (Cam)
26. Every _______ and cranny of the house was stuffed with souvenirs of their
trips to the other countries. (Cam)
Exercise №4
The crossword below is only half filled in. Your partner also has a crossword that is only half filled in. Take it in turns to ask what the missing words
are, e.g. What’s 1 Down? What’s 3 Across? etc. Answer by trying to explain
each word.
Student A)
To find the crossword for student B see p. 187.
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Exercise № 5
Read the sentences and pay attention to italicized parts.
1. From my infancy I was noted for the docility and the humanity of my disposi-
tion.
2. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great
variety of pets.
3. In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured
with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion … .
4. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition.
5. I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire.
6. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife.
7. And in this calculation I was not deceived.
8. The rubbish on the floor was picked up with minutest care.
Exercise № 6
Use the structures in the sentences of your own.
Exercise № 7
Read the statements 1–5 which relate to Paragraphs 1–3 of the reading passage. Put T if the statement is true, F if the statement is false, or N if there is no
information given in the passage.
1. When I decided to go home the animal wanted to follow me.
2. It liked my wife greatly.
3. Soon I felt dislike to it.
4. I didn‟t ill use it at all.
5. It was almost like Pluto, but it hadn‟t been deprived of one of its eyes.
Exercise № 8
Sentences 1–5 are statements beginnings which represent information given
in Paragraphs 4–6. In the box below, there are some statements endings lettered a–j. Choose the correct ending for each statement. There are more statement endings than you will need.
1. With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed … .
2. At such times, although I longed … .
3. The reader will remember that this mark, although large, hadn‟t been original-
ly … .
4. It was now the representation of an object that I … .
5. It had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of … .
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a
to kill it.
b
obvious.
c
to soar.
d
to push up.
e
to assassinate it.
f
clear enough.
g
to be up.
h
don‟t want to say out loud.
i
mental image.
j
mirror image.
Exercise № 9
Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence according to the information given in the 7–10 reading passage.
1. Feeble remnant of the good within me … .
a) obeyed
b) succumbed
c) controlled
d) vanished
2. One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of
the old building which our poverty compelled us to … .
a) live in.
b) visit
c) rule
d) control
3. I determined to … .. … in the cellar.
a) build it up
b) buried it up
c) wall it up
Exercise № 10
Look through the passage and complete the following statements with your
own words as briefly as possible.
1. My next step was to look for the beast which _____ ______ ____ ______of
so much wretchedness. Had I been able to meet with it, at the moment, there _____
______ ______ no doubt of its fate; but it appeared that the crafty animal had been
alarmed at the violence of my previous anger, and fore bore to present itself in my
present mood.
2. The second and the third day passed, and still my tormentor came not. Once
again I breathed as a freeman. The monster, in terror, _____ ______the premises
forever! I should behold it no more! My happiness was supreme! The guilt of my
dark deed disturbed me but little.
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3. Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no
embarrassment whatever. The officers bade me accompany them in their search.
They left __ _______ __ _______ unexplored.
4. I walked the cellar from end to end. I folded my arms upon my bosom, and
roamed easily to and fro. The police were _______ _______ and prepared to depart.
5. The glee at my heart was too strong to___ ___________.
6. "Gentlemen," I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, "I delight ___
________ _________ your suspicions.
7. Of my own thoughts it is _____ ___ ________.
8. For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extrem-
ity __ ____ __ __ ______.
Exercise № 11
Look at the statements numbered 1-10; if the statement is true put T, F if
the statement is false or N if there is no information given.
1. The moodiness of my usual temper rose to hatred of all things and of all man-
kind.
2. My uncomplaining wife was the least usual and the least patient of sufferers.
3. One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of
the new building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.
4. The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and, thrown me headlong, exaspe-
rated me to madness.
5. But this blow wasn‟t arrested by the hand of my wife.
6. Its walls were constructed not tightly, and had lately been plastered through-
out with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from
hardening.
7. Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection, caused by a chimney, or fire-
place, that had been filled up, and made to resemble the red of the cellar.
8. I doubted that I could readily displace the bricks at this point.
9. In this calculation I was not deceived.
10. The wall did not present the slightest appearance of having been disturbed.
Exercise № 12
Choose sentences which have no factual and grammar mistakes.
a) For my own part, I soon found sympathy to it arising within me.
b) I avoided the creature; but a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of
my former deed of cruelty, didn‟t prevent me from physically abusing it.
c) If I arose to walk it would get between my feet and thus nearly throw me
down, or, fastening its long and sharp claws in my dress, clamber, in this manner, to
my breast. At such times, although I wanted to destroy it with a blow.
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d) My wife had turned my attention, more than once, to the character of the mark
of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.
e) The reader will remember that this mark, although large, had been originally
very indefinite; but, by slow degrees – degrees nearly imperceptible, and which for a
long time my Reason struggled to reject as fanciful – it had, at length, assumed a
rigorous distinctness of outline. It was now the representation of an object that I
don‟t want to name.
f) During the former the creature left me alone.
g) Evil thoughts became my sole intimates – the darkest and most evil of though-
ts.
h) I knew that I could remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbors.
i) I wasn‟t sure that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the
corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.
j) It is hard to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which
the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.
Exercise № 13
Choose two correct sentences.
a) The second and the third day passed, and finally my tormentor came.
b) The guilt of my dark deed didn‟t disturb me at all.
c) Even a search had been instituted - but of course nothing was to be discovered.
d) Upon the fifth day of the assassination, a party of the police came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the
premises.
e) My heart beat calmly as that of one who isn‟t guilty.
Exercise № 14
Give a summary of the text.
Exercise № 15
Pick out adjectives and other words in the text that characterize:
a) The main hero
b) His wife
c) Pluto
Exercise № 16
Quote the text to prove the following statements:
a) main hero was especially fond of animals;
b) main hero married early and was happy with his wife;
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c) Pluto was his favorite pet and playmate;
d) his aversion to the new cat increased.
Exercise № 17
Retell the story according to the outline below:
I. From my infancy I was especially fond of animals.
II. Pluto was my favorite pet and playmate.
III. I fancied that the cat avoided my presence.
IV. In the meantime the cat slowly recovered.
V. On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused
from sleep by the cry of fire.
VI. One night as I sat, half stupified, in a den of more than infamy, my attention
was suddenly drawn to some black object.
VII. The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all
mankind.
VIII. This hideous murder accomplished.
IX. Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the police came, very un-
expectedly, into the house, and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of
the premises.
Exercise № 18
Topics for discussion:
1. Cruel treatment of pets;
2. Man‟s cruelty;
3. Family violence;
4. Drugs: reasons & consequences;
5. Perversion of justice;
6. “Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the
indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of
Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?” Do you agree? If so,
why?
Exercise № 19
Translate the text below.
Ночь для счастья
(по одноименному рассказу А. Хана)
История, о которой я хочу рассказать случилась в одной московской квар-
тире. Это реальная история, но я решил не менять имя героини, потому что я
абсолютно уверен – она никогда не прочитает этот рассказ.
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Алиса ждала его целый день. Она мечтала, как они будут ужинать вместе.
Она, конечно, съест все быстрее, чем он, и потом будет с любовью смотреть,
как он ест мясо и картошку, как он пьет кофе и потом курит на балконе.
Он пришел поздно вечером, сказал: «Привет, Алиса!» и в этот момент за-
звонил телефон. Он побежал к телефону, взял трубку и сказал:
– А-а, это ты! Ну, как дела?
И полчаса говорил о каком-то Иванове, который не приготовил вовремя
документы, о том, как он устал, когда ездил сегодня утром в аэропорт, о пробке на дороге и о том, где можно купить какие-то детали для машины.
Когда разговор закончился, он положил трубку, но телефон сразу зазвонил
опять. Он опять взял трубку и начал говорить, что он уже не мальчик, что он долго ждал ее под дождем, что если она не могла прийти, она должна позвонить …
Все это время Алиса с отчаянием смотрела на него и думала, что сегодня
она ждала его весь день, а он даже не смотрит на нее.
Наконец он сказал, что будет ждать звонка через час, положил трубку и
пошел на кухню.
«Ну, как ты тут, Алиса? – спросил он из кухни. – Скучала без меня?»
Алиса слышала, как он открыл холодильник. Но она не спешила на кухню.
Она медленно подошла к телефону, посмотрела на аппарат и мягко сдвинула
трубку c рычага. Со стороны это было совсем незаметно. А шум телевизора,
который он уже включил, не давал услышать тихие короткие гудки.
Напрасно в этот вечер пытались дозвониться до него сначала его мать, коллеги, начальник, бывшая жена, а потом его сегодняшняя «большая и единственная» любовь. Он ужинал, рыжая кошка Алиса с любовью смотрела на него,
а по телевизору пели: « Женское счастье – это когда любимый рядом …».
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To Helen
By Allan Edgar Poe
HELEN, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicèan barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are holy land!
To One in Paradise
By Allan Edgar Poe
THOU wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine:
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope, that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On! on!" – but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast.
For, alas! alas! with me
The light of Life is o'er!
No more – no more – no more –
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams –
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied to be a
doctor at the University of Edinburgh and set up a small practice at Southsea in
Hampshire during his 20s. While the practice proved largely unsuccessful, the lack
of patients provided him with the opportunity to create possibly the most popular
character ever introduced in the history of fiction, Sherlock Holmes.
While at University, Conan Doyle had been greatly influenced by John Bell, one
of his professors. Bell was an expert in the use of deductive reasoning to diagnose
disease. Conan Doyle was so impressed that he used these same principles when
creating his famous detective.
Sherlock Holmes was introduced in A Study in Scarlet (1887), followed by A
Sign of Four in 1890, but didn't really take hold of the public's imagination until
Strand magazine, newly founded in 1890, published a series of short stories called
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." From that point on the public couldn't get
enough of Holmes and his always reliable confidant, John H. Watson, a retired military doctor.
Residing in London at 221B Baker Street, Holmes's character and personality set
him apart from all others. "Holmes, with his keen sense of observation, his lean face
and hooked nose, his long legs, his deerstalker hat, his magnifying glass, and his ever-present pipe. This personality is what caught the reader's imagination." (The Literature of Crime and Detection)
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