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strange and mysterious: He predicted the winners of each race with
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10. plead verb [intransitive or transitive]
LEGAL to say in a court of law whether you are guilty of a crime or
not:
plead guilty/not guilty: Both defendants pleaded not guilty on all
counts.
11.
oss stick noun [count]
a thin stick of INCENSE
12. chagrin noun [uncount] FORMAL
chagrined adjective
a feeling of being very annoyed, disappointed, or embarrassed:
to someone's chagrin: The report finds (much to the chagrin of male
drivers
that women are generally safer behind the wheel than men.
13. loophole noun [count]
something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people
can use to avoid obeying it: He exploited a legal loophole in order to
avoid
child support.
14. splutter verb INFORMAL[intransitive]
– to make noises with your mouth because you suddenly cannot
breathe or swallow normally
– to sa
something while you are splutterin
15. stunt noun [count]
done to entertain people, often as part of a film: a stunt plane
a. something dangerous or stupid that you do, often to impress someone:
pull a stunt: Don't ever pull that stunt again!
b. something silly or unusual that is done to get public attention: a
ublicity stun
Phrasal verbs, collocations, idioms and word combinations
1. point verb
point to [transitive]
to show the truth or importance of something: The evidence clearly
points to her guilt.
point up [transitive] FORMAL to emphasize something:
Her research points up the difficulty of finding a solution.
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2. vent noun
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give vent to
to express very strong anger or sadness: The meetings allow people to
ive vent to their frustrations.
3. flaw noun
fatal flaw (=that makes something completely useless or wrong):
What you've just said is the fatal flaw in your argument.
a. a mark or fault that spoils something and makes it less beautiful or
perfect
There was a tiny flaw in the diamond. My father definitely had his
flaws and failings.
. a fault in someone's character: WEAKNESS
4. go verb
go through
1 [transitive] go through something to examine or search something
very carefully: Someone had broken into the office and gone through
all the drawers.
2 [intransitive or transitive] if a law goes through, or goes through a
law-making institution, it is officially approved:
Collins went through every legal book she could find.
2a. [intransitive] if something such as a request, proposal, or contract
goes through, it is officially accepted or approved:
We can't really imagine what they're going through.
3 [transitive] to experience something difficult or unpleasant
4 [transitive] to use, spend, or eat all of something, especially quickly:
He'd gone through all his money by the end of the first week of his
holiday.
5 [transitive] to practise all of something such as a speech, song, or
play:
Let's go through your lines one more time.
6 [transitive] if a thought or idea goes through your mind, you
consider it for a short time
7 [transitive] to perform a set of actions that you regularly perform
She went through her daily routine of clearing the breakfast table
before settling down to handle the correspondence.
go through with [transitive]
go through with something to do something you have planned or
agreed to do, especially after not being sure you want to do it:
I can't believe he went throu
h with the divorce.
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5. whisk verb
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whisk someone/something off/away/through etc [transitive]
to move someone or something very quickly:
In obvious pain, he was whisked off to the hospital. The police whisked
her away in a van.
2a. [transitive] to move something with a quick movement :
She whisked the dirty plates off the table.
2b. [intransitive] to move quickly:
The President whisked throu
h South America last month.
6. hit verb
hit the nail on the head
to say something that is exactly right or very true
hit the road INFORMAL
to leave or start a journey
hit the roof/ceiling SPOKEN
to become very angry
hit the sack/hay INFORMAL
to go to bed for the nigh
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Exercises
Exercise # 1.
Match the verbs, idioms and word collocations with their meanings.
1. hit the nail on the head a. to do something you have planned or
agreed to do, especially after not being
ou want to do i
sure
2. whisk someone/something
off/awa
3. go through with c. to express very strong anger or sadness
4. hit the road d. to say something that is exactly right o
5. hit the roof/ceiling e. to move someone or something very
6. hit the sack/hay f. to become very angr
7. go through g. a mark or fault that spoils something and
8. fatal flaw h. to
9. give vent to i. to leave or start a journe
10. point to
11. point up
/through
Exercise # 2.
Fill in the gaps with the missing words.
. to practise all of something such as a
s
eech, song, or pla
ver
true
uickl
makes it less beautiful or
o to bed forthe nigh
.to emphasize somethin
k. to show the truth or importance of
somethin
erfect
1. Before I gave up smoking I was going ________ 40 cigarettes a day.
(Cam)
2. I went _______ a hundred quid on my last trip to London. (Cam)
3. A council spokeswoman said that the proposals for the new shopping
centre were unlikely to go _______ . (Cam)
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4. The director wants us to go ______ the whole of the third act before
we go home. (Cam)
5. I’d like you to go ______that manoeuvre again and then bring the car
to a halt next to the kerb. (Cam)
6. I’m going _______ my wardrobe and throwing out all the clothes
I don’t wear any more. (Cam)
7. I went ______ everything but I couldn’t find that letter you sent me.
(Cam)
8. Remember to go ________ the pockets before you put those trousers
in the washing machine. (Cam)
9. He’d threatened to divorce her but I never thought he’d go _______
____ it. (Cam)
10. When the auctioneer’s hammer falls, the buyer is legally obliged to
go ______ ____ the deal. (Cam)
11. The company has decided not to go ______ ____ the takeover of its
smaller rival. (Cam)
12. You really ______ ___ _____ __ ____ _____ when you said there’s
no point training people for jobs that don’t exist. (Cam)
13. Dad’ll ____ ___ _____ when he finds out I’ve left school. (Cam)
14. I’ve got a busy day tomorrow, so I’ll think I’ll ____ ___ _____.
(Cam)
15. I’d love to stay longer but I must be _______ ___ _____. (Cam)
16. There is a _________ flaw in your argument. (Cam)
17. The documentary glossed over the important questions while
pointing ___ the trivial ones. (Cam)
18. The accident points ____ how important it is to follow safety
procedures. (Cam)
19. The meeting will be an opportunity for everyone to give ____ to
their feelings. (Cam)
20. Our coffees were whisked _____ before we’d even finished them.
(Cam)
21. I went to see the doctor and was immediately whisked _____ to a
specialist. (Cam)
22. Her husband whisked her ____ to Egypt for her birthday. (Cam)
Exercise # 3.
Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words.
1. There were portraits of his ________on the walls of the room. (Cam)
2. Studies suggest that life originated only once, from a single
________. (Cam)
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3. This wooden instrument is the _________ of the modern metal flute.
(Cam)
4. Victorian postcards often featured _______ of bathing beauties.
(Cam)
5. Imagine my _______ when I discovered that I’d been wrong all
along. (Cam)
6. Much to the police’s _______, the chief suspect for the killing seems
to have fled the country. (Cam)
7. Much to the _________ of his children, when he died he left all his
money to charity. (Cam)
8. The area was cleared of people but the telephone warning turned out
to be a ____.(Cam)
9. A bomb _____ last night forced the evacuation of the city of
London’s Barbican Centre. (Cam)
10. The speaker called for the maximum penalty for _____ calls to be
increased to one year. (Cam)
11. ______ ____ are made from sandal wood which is a very fragrant
wood. (Cam)
12. Many of them were lawyers employed by those companies to find
__________ in environmental protection laws. (Cam)
13. The police are anxious to close any _________ to prevent copycat
crimes. (Cam)
14. The defendant _________ innocent to robbery with violence. (Cam)
15. A department spokesperson _______ official difficulties as the
reason for the delay. (Cam)
16. The factory can _______ that, given problems of finance and
technology, it is doing the best it can to reduce the noise. (Cam)
17. On a warm sunny day the river seems _____and benign, and it’s
hard to believe it can be dangerous. (Cam)
18. They mentioned the ________ place of life as their main reason of
moving to the village. (Cam)
19. She was a very ______ child who slept all night and hardly ever
cried. (Cam)
20. He’s an absolute ___________ – he took our antique vase to get it
valued and we haven’t seen him since. (Cam)
21. I’ll see you in a court, you filthy __________!(Cam)
22. The old gentleman in the corner of the carriage was ____________
with indignation at something he was reading in his newspaper. (Cam)
23. She took too big gulp of whisky and started to cough and
________.(Cam)
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24. It’s __________ how much you and Elizabeth look like sisters.
(Cam)
25. The old guy has an _______ ability to pick the winning horse. (Cam)
26. The mayor’s guests were _________ to their seats before the
conductor walked onto the stage. (Cam)
27. She __________ us into her office without giving us a chance to
think about what we wanted to say. (Cam)
28. His last years he spent in Rome, _________ he came. (Cam)
29. It has returned to the shop from _________ it came. (Cam)
Exercise # 4.
Read the sentences and pay attention to the italicized parts. Use the
structures in the sentences of your own.
1. 'What is, mon ami?' asked Poirot placidly, from the depths of his
comfortable chair.
2. 'Deduce, Poirot, from the following facts! Here is a young lady,
richly dressed – fashionable hat, magnificent furs.
3. Miss Marvell was small and slender, very fair and girlish-looking,
with the wide innocent blue eyes of a child.
4. Lord Yardly turned out to be a cheery, loud-voiced sportsman with a
rather red face, but with a good-humoured bonhomie about him that was
distinctly attractive and made up for any lack of mentality.
5. Tall, dark, with flashing eyes, and a pale proud face – yet something
wistful in the curves of the mouth.
Exercise # 5.
Translate from English into Russian. Pay special attention to
different types of attributives.
A) 1. The shop was a popular greengrocer and fruiterer's, an array of
goods set out in the open air and plainly ticketed with their names and
prices. 2. He crossed the carpeted floor. 3. The Treasury, the Presidencia, a
dentist's, the prison – a low white colonnaded building, and then the steep
street down – whichever way you went you came ultimately to water and to
river. 4. He began to pray with his brandied tongue. 5. The bar owner served
the liquor to customers, paying Herbie half the going price of regularly
bottled supplies. 6. Meyerheim has a fine gallery on the moneyed side of the
Seine and he has an international reputation. 7. Joseph put his gloved fingers
to his forehead. 8. The dark downward steps, the ordure against the
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unwindowed wall, the starving faces. 9. He knew that the tall ribboned
b
r
officer was the Chief of Police.
B)
It was a smallish room, with big deep leather chairs of a delicate
brown colour. 2. We have lodges in all the biggish places. 3. Near the front
of the audience, a youngish man sprang to his feet. 4. "What about that hotel
in the market place, Jimmy?" "Might be a bit dearish." 5. Well, if you do,
I shall feel I ought to go too, and though I'm tiredish too, I hate to think I'm
missing anything. 6. He was beginning to feel wonderlandish again, what
with Mr Mensworth and the champagne. 7. The Hairless Mexican was a tall
man, and though thinnish gave you the impression of being very powerful.
8. It was a longish ride. 9. I had a sweetish taste in my mouth. 10. I'm a
baldish, stoutish gentleman of fifty-two.
Exercise # 6.
Sentences 1–5 are statements beginnings which represent
information given in Paragraphs 4–6. In the box below, there are some
middle parts lettered a–j. Choose the middle part for each statement.
There are more middle parts than you will need.
1. 'The story seems of an almost unbelievable romanticism. And yet –
who knows? I pray of you, Hastings, hand me my little _________ .'
2. This belle histoire may be a ________ – but it may not!
3. She leaned forward, unclosing her hand. In the palm, a stone of white
fire, exquisitely set in platinum, lay and _________ at us solemnly.
4. A few years ago Lord and Lady Yardly had paid a visit to the States,
rumour had it that his lordship had rather gone the pace out there with the
assistance of some lady friends – but surely there was something more,
more gossip which _________ Lady Yardly's name with that of a 'movie'
star in California – why! it came to me in a flash – of course it was none
other than Gregory B. Rolf.
5. 'We've got a deal on with Lord Yardly. There's some chance of our
arranging to film a play down there in his ________ pile.'
a shimmered
anthology
c dashed
d calenda
e conjoined
f associated
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idrawn game
j inherited
Exercise # 7.
Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence according to
the information given in 7–9 reading passages.
1. Then he said aloud, with his usual uncanny luck in hitting the bull'seye (he dignifies it by the name of psychology): 'Then you are without
doubt already ________ Lady Yardly, or perhaps your husband is?'
a) informed about
b) know
c) familiarized
d) informed
2. His tone was __________, but I fancied that an undercurrent of
seriousness lay beneath it.
a) mimic
b) derided
с) counterfeit
d) fabricated
3. But there! She's a woman through and through, and I guess she can't
bear to think of another woman __________ her in the jewel line.'
a) covered
b) dimmed
с) overshadowed
d) eclipse
4. And yet there is no doubt that I, too, ________ the deductive sense in
a marked degree.
a) have
b) borrow
с) keep
d) belong
5. As I was saying, if she, as the holder of one of the twin diamonds, has
received a mysterious series of warnings, you, as the ________ of the other
stone, must necessarily have done the same.
a) occupier
b) shareholder
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с) pot holder
d) possessor
Exercise # 8.
Look through the passage and complete the following statements
with your own words as briefly as possible.
1. For a moment she hesitated, as though ___ _______whether to trust
me or not, then she bowed her head in assent with a little smile.
2. 'That is what we must______ ____. You have the letters with you?
We might learn something from the postmarks.'
3. We _______ _______the facts again and again, but could get no
further towards the elucidation of the mystery. At last Lady Yardly rose.
4. He _________ me rather sharply _____ the details of our
conversation and I could read between the lines that he was not best pleased
to have been absent.
5. I also fancied that the dear old fellow was just the least _________
___ __ jealous.
6. It had become rather a pose with him to consistently belittle my
abilities, and I think he was ________ ___finding no loophole for criticism.
7. I was secretly rather _________ ____myself, though I tried to
conceal the fact for fear of irritating him. In spite of his idiosyncrasies, I was
deeply attached to my quaint little friend.
8. 'I thought you had _______ your hands ___ the case?'
9. Decidedly, I must have __ _______ __ this pie.'
10. 'And you calmly wire Lord Yardly to ________ ___ to town just to
suit your convenience. He won't be pleased.'
Exercise # 9.
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. Lord Yardly happened to be a cheery, loud-voiced sportsman with a
rather red face, but with a good-humoured bonhomie about him that was
distinctly attractive and made up for any lack of mentality.
2. Poirot smiled a little, but made no straight reply.
3. I have great hopes of preventing the catastrophe.
4. This affair of Yardly Chase, is it, as you say, all fixed upon between
you and Mr Rolf?
5. 'Oh, he told you about it, did he? No, there's nothing settled.' He
stammered, the brick-red colour of his face deepening.
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