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Файл:Практикум по домашнему чтению. Students guide to home reading («The Hound of the Baskervilles» by Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Chapter 8. First Report of Dr Watson
I. Answer the questions:
1. How did Dr Watson call the place on the more?
2. What did he write about the escaped convict?
3. What did he write about Miss Stapleton?
4. What did he write about her brother?
5. What did Dr Watson notice concerning Sir Henry being attracted
by Miss Stapleton?
6. How did everything occur in connection with Sir Henry’s
death?
7. What did Dr Watson write about another neighbour – Mr Frank
land?
8. What was the reaction of Barrymore to Sir Henry’s questions
about the telegram?
9. What did Dr Watson think about Mrs Barrymore?
10. What did Barrymore do in the night time?
II. Read aloud and translate the passage (pp. 108–109):
Barrymore was crouching at the window with the candle held
against the glass. His prole was half turned towards me, and his
face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the
blackness of the moor. For some minutes he stood watching intent
ly. Then he gave a deep groan and with an impatient gesture he
put out the light. Instantly I made my way back to my room, and
very shortly came the stealthy steps passing once more upon their
return journey. Long afterwards when I had fallen into a light sleep
I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence
the sound came. What it all means I can not guess, but there is some
secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or
later we shall get to the bottom of. I do not trouble you with my
theories, for you asked me to furnish you only with facts. I have had
a long talk with Sir Henry this mor ning, and we have made a plan
of campaign founded upon my observations of last night. I will not
speak about it just now, but it should make my next report interes
ting reading.
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III. Give Russian equivalents to the English idioms. Illustrate their
usage in situations.
1. The course of events;
2. On the other hand;
3. Up to today;
4. Keep smb in touch;
5. Able bodied man;
6. To take care of smb;
7. To share the view;
8. On the way back;
9. To pay attention to;
10. To be attached to smb.
IV. Give synonyms to the following words and wordcombina
tions:
1. To walk;
2. Houses;
3. Huge;
4. Soil;
5. To accept;
6. Therefore;
7. To concern;
8. To catch;
9. To correspond with;
10. To dine.
V. Give antonyms to the following words:
1. Tragic;
2. Modern;
3. To move;
4. To believe;
5. Difculty;
6. Better;
7. Heavily;
8. Long;
9. Sometimes;
10. The future.
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VI. Subdivide the chapter into parts and entitle them making up the
plan of retelling the text.
VIII. Retell the chapter according to the plan.
Chapter 9. Second Report of Dr Watson –
The Light upon the More
I. Answer the questions:
1. What kind of adventure did Dr Watson describe?
2. What kind of changes did they expect in the Hall?
3. What was Sir Henry’s attitude to Miss Stapleton?
4. Why did Watson follow Sir Henry upon the More?
5. Whom did he see speaking absorbed in the conversation on the
path of the more?
6. What was their behaviour?
7. What did puzzle Sir Henry in Stapleton’s attitude to him?
8. How did Stapleton explain the fact that he was against his sis
ter’s marriage?
9. How did Barrymore explain his behaviour near the window?
10. Was it Barrymore’s own secret?
11. What did Barrymore’s wife tell about her brother?
12. What did Watson and Sir Henry decide to do concerning Sel
don, the escaped?
13. Whose cry did they hear on the more?
14. Describe the meeting and behaviour of the convict and Dr
Watson.
15. Whom else did Watson see on the more?
II. Read aloud and translate the passage (pp. 132–133):
I wished to go in that direction and to search the tor, but it was
some distance away. The baronet’s nerves were still quivering from
that cry’ which recalled the dark story of his family, and he was not in
the mood for fresh adventures. He had not seen this lonely man upon
the tor and could not feel the thrill which his strange presence and
his commanding attitude had given to me. “A warder, no doubt,” said
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he. “The moor has been thick with them since this fellow escaped.
“Well, perhaps his explanation may be the right one, but I should like
to have some further proof of it. Today we mean to communicate to
the Princetown people where they should look for their missing man,
but it is hard lines that we have not actually had the triumph of bring
ing him back as our own prisoner. Such are the adventures of last
night, and you must acknowledge, my dear Holmes, that I have done
you very well in the matter of a report. Much of what I tell you is no
doubt quite irrelevant, but still I feel that it is best that I should let you
have all the facts and leave you to select for yourself those which will
be of most service to you in helping you to your conclusions. We are
certainly making some progress. So far as the Barrymores go we have
found the motive of their actions, and that has cleared up the situation
very much. But the moor with its mysteries and its strange inhabitants
remains as inscrutable as ever. Perhaps in my next I may be able to
throw some light upon this also. Best of all would it be if you could
come down to us. In any case you will hear from me again in the
course of the next few days.
III. Give Russian equivalents to the English idioms. Illustrate their
usage in situations.
1. In some ways;
2. Love intrigue;
3. To be surprised;
4. To pay a visit;
5. In any case;
6. To be in communication with;
7. To be at a loss;
8. Disregard for instructions;
9. To meet by appointment;
10. To be ashamed to do smth.
IV. Give synonyms to the following words and wordcombinations:
1. Corridor;
2. To enable;
3. Glimpse;
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4. Stealthy;
5. True;
6. To get ready;
7. Conversation;
8. Whether;
9. Position;
10. To hurry.
VI. Give antonyms to the following words and wordcombina
tions:
1. Without;
2. Clear;
3. To enable;
4. Someone;
5. More;
6. To believe;
7. To put on;
8. Before;
9. Wrong;
10. Finally.
VIII. Subdivide the chapter into parts and entitle them making up
the plan of retelling the text.
IX. Retell the chapter according to the plan.
Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
I. Answer the questions:
1. What was the weather and atmosphere on the 16th of October?
2. How did the strange creature on the moor look like and sound
like?
3. What were Dr Watson’s thoughts concerning the enemy or the
friend.
4. Who was a stranger Dr Watson met on the moor? Tell about his
hesitations.
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5. What was the subject of the conversation between Sir Henry and
Barrymore?
6. What did Berrymore tell Sir Henry about the appointment of Sir
Charles on the day of the death on the moor?
7. What did Berrymore read about in the letter signed by the ini
tials L. L.?
8. What was the weather on the 17th of October?
9. Who gave the name of the woman with such initials?
10. What was the story of Laure Lyons?
11. What did Barrymore tell about the stranger on the moor (retell
ing Seden’s words)?
II. Read aloud and translate the passage (p. 142):
As I walked back I was overtaken by Dr Mortimer driving in his
dogcart over a rough moorland track which led from the outlying
farmhouse of Foulmire. He has been very attentive to us, and hardly
a day has passed that he has not called at the Hall to see how we were
getting on. He insisted upon my climbing into his dogcart, and he
gave me a lift homeward. I found him much troubled over the disap
pearance of his little spaniel. It had wandered on to the moor and had
never come back. I gave him such consolation as I might, but I thought
of the pony on the Grimpen Mire, and I do not fancy that he will see
his little dog again.
III. Give Russian equivalents to the English idioms. Illustrate their
usage in situations.
1. Baying of a hound;
2. Common sense;
3. Descend to the level;
4. By day;
5. To have a glance at smb;
6. To beg one’s pardon;
7. To stick at nothing;
8. To break into the house;
9. For God’s sake;
10. To get smb into trouble.
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IV. Give synonyms to the following words:
1. To forward;
2. To rise;
3. To consider;
4. To full;
5. Twice;
6. The neighbour;
7. To be certain;
8. To hunt;
9. Warmly;
10. To depend.
V. Give antonyms to the following words:
1. Wet;
2. Impossible;
3. Natural;
4. Real;
5. Down;
6. Free;
7. Few;
8. Without;
9. Never;
10. To wander.
VI. Subdivide the chapter into parts and entitle them making up the
plan of retelling the text.
VII. Retell the chapter according to the plan.
Chapter 11. The man on the Tor
I. Answer the questions:
1. What were the two facts of great importance established by Dr
Watson?
2. Did Dr Watson go alone to Mrs Lyons or together with Sir
Henry?
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3. Describe the appearance of Mrs Lyons.
4. Who helped Mrs Lyons in her troubles?
5. What was the main question of Dr Watson with which he ad
dressed Mrs Lyons?
6. How did Mrs Lyons explain her pressing to destroy the letter?
7. Why didn’t she go to Sir Charles on the appointed day?
8. What was Watson’s conclusion after the conversation with Mrs
Lyons?
9. Who appeared to be the messenger of good fortune?
10. Whom did Mr Frankland see with his own eyes bringing food
to somebody on the moor?
11. Why did he refuse to help the police?
12. Did they really see a boy with a bundle going to the moor?
13. Was Watson a success to nd a hiding place?
14. What was written on a sheet of paper found by Watson in the
hiding place?
15. Whom did he meet in the hut?
II. Read aloud and translate the passage (p. 164):
Outside the sun was sinking low and the west was blazing with
scarlet and gold. Its reection was shot back in ruddy patches by the
distant pools which lay amid the great Grimpen Mire. There were the
two towers of Baskerville Hall, and there a distant blur of smoke which
marked the village of Grimpen. Between the two, behind the hill, was
the house of the Stapletons. All was sweet and mellow and peaceful in
the golden evening light, and yet as I looked at them my soul shared
none of the peace of Nature but quivered at the vagueness and the
terror of that interview which every instant was bringing nearer. With
tingling nerves but a xed purpose, I sat in the dark recess of the hut
and waited with sombre patience for the coming of its tenant.
III. Give Russian equivalents to the English idioms. Illustrate their
usage in situations.
1. At the time;
2. Of great importance;
3. To make an appointment;
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4. To throw light upon smth;
5. Prickings of conscience;
6. By stealth;
7. To come true;
8. To lay hands on smb;
9. To miss the chance;
10. To come upon the false scent.
IV. Give synonyms to the following words and wordcombinations:
1. Private;
2. Event;
3. To interrogate;
4. Handsome;
5. To correspond;
6. Several;
7. In an instant;
8. To crossquestion;
9. To destroy;
10. To face.
V. Give antonyms to the following words:
1. Swiftly;
2. Presence;
3. Silent;
4. Kind;
5. Dry;
6. Front;
7. Indifference;
8. Angry;
9. To vanish;
10. To approach.
VI. Subdivide the chapter into parts and entitle them making up the
plan of retelling the text.
VII. Retell the chapter according to the plan.
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Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
I. Answer the questions:
1. What were Watson’s feelings in the moment he met Sherlock
Holmes?
2. How did Sherlock Holmes look like?
3. How did Sherlock Holmes know that Watson was nearby?
4. How did Sherlock Holmes explain his presence on the moor?
5. What for did Sherlock Holmes bring with him the boy named
Cartwright?
6. What was Holmes’ attitude to Watson’s letters?
7. What were they talking at rst about?
8. What was the news for Watson about Miss Stapleton?
9. Who dogged them in London?
10. How did Holmes know that Miss Stapleton was the wife of
Stapleton?
11. What was the idea of Laura Lyon concerning Stapleton?
12. What did they hear suddenly?
13. Whom did they nd with face downward upon the earth? Why
were they mistaken?
14. Who approached them after they had found the dead man?
II. Read aloud and translate the passage (p. 172):
Holmes’s voice sank as he answered: “It is murder, Watson – re
ned, coldblooded, delibe rate murder. Do not ask me for particu
lars. My nets are closing upon him, even as his are upon Sir Henry,
and with your help he is already almost at my mercy. There is but
one danger which can threaten us. It is that he should strike before
we are ready to do so. Another day – two at the most – and I have
my case complete, but until then guard your charge as closely as
ever a fond mother watched her ailing child. Your mission today
has justied itself, and yet I could almost wish that you had not left
his side. Hark!”
III. Give Russian equivalents to the English idioms. Illustrate their
usage in situations.
1. In the neighbourhood;
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