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2 to continue doing something, especially when you do not have much
time:
There's a lot to do, so let's push on.
push on with: I've pushed on with the work because I want to finish it today.
push over [transitive]
to push someone or something hard so that they fall from the position
that they are in: She pushed me over in the playground.
push through [transitive]
to succeed in getting a law, agreement etc accepted quickly although a lot
of people oppose it: He is determined to push the bill through Parlia-
ment.
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Exercises
1. force someone's hand
a. to push someone or something hard so that they
fall from the position that they are in
2. push over
b. to make yourself move or do something
3. push on
c. to force someone to do something by making
them feel that they should do it
4. push off
d. to continue a journey, especially after stopping
for a period of time
5. stir yourself
e. push for something to try hard to get or achieve
something
6. can't abide something
f. to smile or laugh when you do not really feel like it
7. not trust someone as
far as you can throw
them
g. to make something become lower
8. take something
on trust
h. to make someone do something that they did not
want to do or make them do something sooner than
they intended to do it
9. force down
i. to leave a place
10. force a smile/laugh
j. to dislike something very much. It is more usual
to say that you can't stand something
11. force the pace
k. to not trust someone at all
12. push forward
l. to believe that something you have heard or read
is true, although there is no proof
13. push for
m. to make events happen more quickly than they
would usually
14. stir into
n. to move further towards a place in a determined
way, or despite opposition or difficulties
Exercise № 1
Match the verbs, idioms and word collocations with their meanings.
Exercise № 2
Fill in the gaps with the missing word.
1. He pushed _______ the lamp.(Mac)
2. They are pushing ___ ______ their campaign for improved childcare facili-
ties. (Cam)
3. You‟ve been driving for a long time – do you want to stop for a rest? No, we
are nearly there – let‟s push ____.(Cam)
4. Their researches has pushed _______ the frontiers of knowledge. (Cam)
5. The president is trying to push _______ tax reform. (Cam)
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6. Rising demand tends to push prices ___, and falling demand pushes them
_______.(Cam)
7. The rise in interests rates has pushed the value of my interests ___.(Cam)
8. He pushed ____ from the side of the pool and swam slowly to the other side.
(Cam)
9. Come on, stir _________? Or you‟ll be late! (Cam)
10. Stir the egg yolks _____ the mixture. (Cam)
11. Sometimes you simply have to trust ___ the goodness of human nature. (Cam)
12. Trust you __ upset her by talking about the accident. (Cam)
13. “Thank you”, he said, forcing ____ the word unwillingly. (Cam)
14. If the management wouldn‟t listen to their demands they would have to force
the ______ by striking. (Cam)
15. I didn‟t actually want any more desert, but Julia forced it ___ me. (Cam)
Exercise № 3
Fill in the gaps with the missing word.
1. The article ________ the mysteries of nationalism in modern Europe. (Cam)
2. Small children often sleep ________ to a cuddy toy. (Cam)
3. We got so wet that our clothes _______ to us. (Cam)
4. He was a ______man whose manner made him unpopular with some people.
(Cam)
5. You‟ll have __________opportunity to ask questions after the talk. (Cam)
6. There‟s _______ evidence to suggest that the lawyer in question knew exact-
ly what she was doing. (Cam)
7. She refused to became involved with him despite his passionate
__________.(Cam)
8. The kids drive me into a ______ sometimes. (Cam)
9. She‟s got photograph of all her grandchildren on the ____________ . (Cam)
10. My toes and fingers are ________ with cold. (Cam)
11. The children are _________ with excitement as it gets closer to the holidays.
(Cam)
12. After the meals we had last year I ______ to do of the cooking myself. (Cam)
13. Don‟t ____- I‟m sure he‟s ok. (Cam)
14. “Whatever can have happened?” she _________. (Cam)
15. Engineers are ________ to locate the source of the problem. (Cam)
16. Their ground forces were able to manoeuvre and __________ without any
danger of air attack. (Cam)
17. As we _______, Duncan had not been telling the truth. (Cam)
18. There must be another explanation, he _________.(Cam)
19. The police ________ that the robbers have fled the country. (Cam)
20. The evening sky was deep pink, with ______ of purple and red in it. (Cam)
Exercise №4
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The crossword below is only half filled in. Your partner also has a cross-
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word 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. 189
Exercise № 5
Read the sentences and pay attention to italicized parts.
1. She seemed for an instant to wish to shrink back inside the house again; and
then, seeing how useless all concealment must be, she came forward, with a very
white face and frightened eyes which belied the smile upon her lips.
2. You will never have cause to regret it.
3. If you force your way into that cottage all is over between us.
4. That was comfortable and elegant, and all my suspicions rose into a fierce,
bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece stood a copy of a full-length photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my request only three months ago.
5. Holmes and I had listened with the utmost interest to this extraordinary state-
ment, which had been delivered in the jerky, broken fashion of a man who is under
the influence of extreme emotion.
Exercise № 6
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Use the structures in the sentences of your own.
a
to this established statement
b
hesitated
c
try d to this unusual statement.
e
silly
f.
engrossed in thoughts.
g
week-headed
h
unmanned
i
afflict
j
derelict
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. She seemed for an instant to wish to shrink back inside the house again; and
then, seeing how useless all concealment must be, she came forward, with a very
white face and frightened eyes which belied the smile upon her lips.
2. Then, as I tried to shake her off, she clung to me in a frenzy of entreaty.
3. You aren‟t at liberty to preserve your secret and you must promise me that
there shall be no more nightly visits.
4. As we went I glanced back, and there was that yellow livid face watching us
out of the upper window.
5. I had ample evidence that her solemn promise was enough to hold her back
from this secret influence which drew her away from her husband and her duty.
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 or
middle parts lettered a–j. Choose the correct phrase for each statement. There
are more statement endings or middle parts than you will need.
1. Holmes and I had listened with the utmost interest ________________ .
2. My companion sat silent now for some time, with his chin upon his hand,
_______________________ .
3. If the cottage is now permanently ______________ we may have some diffi-
culty.
4. Her husband developed some hateful qualities, or shall we say he contracted
some loathsome disease and became a leper or _____________?
5. She waits until her husband is asleep and then she rushes down to ________to
persuade them to leave her in peace.
Exercise № 9
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Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence according to the information given in the 7–10 reading passage.
1. He was waiting on the platform when we stepped out, and we could see in the
light of the station lamps that he was very pale, and quivering with ________.
a) disturbance
b) excitement
c) disarray
d) confusion
2. "There are the lights of my house," he __________, pointing to a glimmer
among the trees.
a) grumbled
b) complained
c) whispered
d) babbled
3. I could not see her face in the darkness, but her arms were thrown out in an at-
titude of _________.
a) supplication
b) request
c) question
d) inquire
4. I pushed my _________ so far as to order her to keep the child in the house
during the daytime, and to cover up her little face and hands so that even those who
might see her at the window should not gossip about there being a black child in the
neighbourhood.
a) frugality
b) foresight
c) thrift
d) economy
Exercise № 10
Look through the passage and complete the following statements with your
own words as briefly as possible.
1. I was struck _______ ____ ___________at the sight of her, but my emotions
were nothing to those which showed themselves upon her face when our eyes met.
2. I shall enter that cottage, and I shall probe ____ _______ __ __ _______.
3. No, no, Jack, for God's sake! she gasped in uncontrollable emotion. Then, as I
approached the door, she _______ my sleeve and pulled me back with convulsive
strength.
4. There was such earnestness, such despair, in her manner that her words ar-
rested me, and I stood ___________before the door.
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5. You are ___ __________to preserve your secret, but you must promise me
that there shall be no more nightly visits, no more doings which are kept from my
knowledge.
6. Still pulling at my sleeve, she _____ ___ _____from the cottage.
7. __________ with anger, I _________ _______ and________ _______, de-
termined to end the matter once and forever.
8. That was comfortable and elegant, and all my suspicions_______ ____ __
_____, bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece stood a copy of a full-length
photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my request only three months ago.
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. My wife gets off into the hall as I entered my house; but I was too hurt and
angry to speak with her, and, pushing past her, I made my way into my study.
2. 'Until you tell me who it is that has been living in that cottage, and who it is to
whom you have given that photograph, there can never be any confidence between
us,' said I, and breaking away from her I left the house.
3. It isn‟t the first shadow that has come between us, and it has so shaken me
that I do not know what I should do for the best.
4. "Tell me," said he at last, "could you vow that this was a man's face which
you saw at the window?"
5. Let me advise you, then, to return to Norbury and to investigate the windows
of the cottage again.
6. "Well, it must be the protégé who lives in the only comfortable room in the
place and has her photograph above his fireplace.
7. "You have a theory?" "Yes, a provisional one. But I shall be surprised if it
does turn out to be correct.
8. The facts, as I read them, are something like this: This woman was married in
Africa.
9. She has been married three years and believes that her position is quite secure,
having shown her husband the death certificate of some man whose name she has
assumed, when suddenly her whereabouts is discovered by her first husband, or, we
may suppose, by some unscrupulous woman who has attached herself to the invalid.
10. They write to the wife and threaten to come and unmask her.
Exercise № 12
Choose sentences which have no factual and grammar mistakes.
a) Having success, she goes again next morning, and her husband meets her, as
he has told us, as she comes out.
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b) She promises him then not to go there again, but two days afterwards the
hope of getting rid of those dreadful neighbours was too strong for her, and she
made another attempt, taking down with her the photograph which had probably
been demanded from her.
c) In the midst of this interview the maid rushed in to say that the master had
come home, on which the wife, knowing that he would come straight down to the
cottage, hurried the inmates out at the back door, into the grove of fir-trees, probably, which was mentioned as standing near. In this way he found the place deserted.
d) What do you think of my theory? It is all suspicion.
e) They are not there, Mr. Holmes," said he, laying his hand hard upon my
friend's sleeve. "But I saw lights in the cottage as I came down. We shall settle it
now once and for all.
f) I am going to force my way in and see for myself who is in the house. I wish
you both to be there as participants.
g) He shoved her to one side, and we followed closely after him.
h) As he threw the door open an old woman ran across in front of him and tried
to bar his passage, but he thrust her back, and an instant afterwards we were all upon
the stairs.
i) It was a cosy, well-furnished apartment, with twenty two candles burning
upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece.
j) Her face was turned away as we entered, but we could see that she was
dressed in a red frock, and that she had long white gloves on.
Exercise № 13
Choose two correct sentences.
a) It is often so in such matches, and little Lucy is darker far than ever her father
was. But dark or fair, she is my own dear little girlie, and her mother's pet." The little creature ran across at the words and pressed herself against the lady's dress.
b) God forgive me, I soothed that I should lose you, and I had not the courage to
tell you.
c) For three years I have concealed her existence from you, but I heard from the
nurse, and I knew that all was well with her.
d) At last, however, there came an overwhelming desire to see the child once
more. I struggled against it, but unjustly.
e) Though I knew the danger, I impelled to have the child over, if it were but for
a few weeks.
f) I pushed my precautions so far as to order her to keep the child in the house
during the daytime, and to cover up her little face and hands so that even those who
might see her at the window should not confessed about there being a black child in
the neighbourhood.
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Exercise № 14
Give a summary of the whole text.
Exercise № 15
Pick out from the text adjectives and other words used to characterize:
a) Mr. Grant Munro
b) His wife Effie
c) Sherlock Holmes
Exercise № 16
Quote the text to prove that: a) Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest; b) Mr. Grant Munro has been married for three years. During that time
he and his wife have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two
that ever were joined; c) I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face; d) my wife had gone over there
and had asked the servant to call her if I should return. Tingling with anger, I
rushed down and hurried across, determined to end the matter once and forever.
Exercise № 17
Retell the story according to the outline below:
I. Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake.
II. Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest.
III. "The facts are these, Mr. Holmes," said he. "I am a married man and have
been so for three years".
IV. I want a hundred pounds.
V. I don't know what there was about that face, Mr. Holmes, but it seemed to
send a chill right down my back. I was some little way off, so that I could not make
out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.
VI. I swear that I will tell you everything some day, but nothing but misery can
come of it if you enter that cottage.
VII. On the third day however, I had ample evidence that her solemn promise was
not enough to hold her back from this secret influence which drew her away from
her husband and her duty.
VIII. This woman's first husband is in that cottage.
IX. It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the
highroad into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side. Mr. Grant
Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we stumbled after him as best we
could.
X. “We can talk it over more comfortably at home,” said he. “I am not a very
good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for
being”.
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Exercise № 18
Topics for discussion
1. “White lie,” good or bad?
2. Fear that prevents you from telling the truth.
3. Family life, private or public?
Exercise № 19
Translate the text below.
Ожерелье (по одноименному рассказу Ги де Мопассана)
Часть 1
Это была одна из тех изящных и очаровательных девушек, которые, словно по иронии судьбы, рождаются иногда в чиновничьих семействах. У нее не
было ни приданого, ни надежд на будущее, никаких шансов на то, чтобы ее
узнал, полюбил и сделал своей женой человек состоятельный, из хорошего
общества, и она приняла предложение мелкого чиновника министерства народного образования.
Она страдала непрестанно, так как чувствовала себя рожденной для изящной жизни, для самой утонченной роскоши. Она страдала от бедности своего
жилья, от убожества голых стен, просиженных стульев, полинявших занавесок. Все, чего не заметила бы другая женщина того же круга, мучило ее и возмущало. Однажды вечером ее муж вернулся домой с торжествующим видом и
подал ей большой конверт.
– Вот возьми, – сказал он, – это тебе сюрприз.
Она быстро разорвала конверт и вытащила из него карточку, на которой
было напечатано: "Министр народного образования и г-жа Жорж Рампонно
просят г-на и г-жу Луазель пожаловать на вечер в министерство, в понедельник 18 января". Вместо того чтобы прийти в восторг, как ожидал ее муж,
она с досадой швырнула приглашение на стол.
– В чем же я туда поеду? Мне надеть нечего! Отдай свой билет комунибудь из сослуживцев, у кого жена одевается лучше меня.
В отчаянии он начал уговаривать ее:
– Послушай, Матильда. Сколько это будет стоить – приличное платье, такое, чтобы можно было надеть и в другой раз, что-нибудь совсем простое?
Она помолчала с минуту, мысленно подсчитывая расходы и соображая,
сколько можно попросить, чтобы экономный супруг не ахнул в испуге и не
отказал ей наотрез. Наконец она ответила с запинкой:
– Точно не знаю, но, по-моему, четырехсот франков мне хватило бы.
Он слегка побледнел:
– Хорошо. Я тебе дам четыреста франков. Только постарайся, чтобы платье
было нарядное.
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