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filled him. (p. 206)
9. "Women are strange little beasts," Strickland said to Dr. Coutras. (p. 208)
10. Life is hard, and Nature takes sometimes a terrible delight in torturing her children. (p. 208)
11. Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel (p. 209)
12. There was something hostile in the air which made him hesitate, and he felt that invisible forces barred his way.
Everywhere was desolation. (p. 209–210)
III. Speak on:
1. Captain Brunot and his wife.
Lesson 14 (ch. LV I–LV III)
Vocabulary
Cultural Background
Reading and Translation
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
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Vocabulary
I. Study the words and phrases from the vocabulary list. Reproduce the situations in which they are used
in the book.
1) to frighten smb. out of his wits p. 213 – перепугать кого-л. до смерти,
2) to start back in dismay p. 213 – отпрянуть в испуге,
3) in the clutch (of ) p. 215 – в когтях, в тисках,
4) to fall into the hands of smb. p. 215 – попасть в чьи-то руки,
5) at first sight p. 216 – на первый взгляд,
6) to break the spell p. 217 – разрушить чары,
7) to move with the times p. 219 – идти в ногу со временем,
8) out of reach p. 219 – за пределами/вне досягаемости,
9) to live on other people's money p. 220 – жить за чужой счет,
10) The mills of God grind slowly but p. 221 – Бог правду видит, да не скоро
they grind exceedingly small. скажет (пословица).
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- dense thorny shrubs (211) –
- hornet's nest (211) –
- a sigh of relief (211) –
- to watch stealthily (211) –
- indescribably wonderful (212) –
- the infinity of space (214) –
- the endlessness of time (214) –
- lyrical mode (214) –
- sightless eyes (215) –
- set fire to something (215) –
- burned to the ground (215) –
- opaque (216) –
- lapis lazuli (216) –
- lustre (216) –
- the berries of holly (217) –
- luxurious (217) –
- enchanted fruit (217) –
- the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (217) –
- lined face (218) –
- lamentable death (221) –
- Holy Writ (221) -
III. Match the synonyms:
1) extremely impressive, large, huge;
2) elevated, awe-inspiring, majestic;
3) calm, tranquil, peaceful, untroubled;
4) indecent, outrageous;
5) rotten, decomposed;
6) bewitched; magical;
7) fashionable, stylish;
8) skinny, skin-and-bones;
9) merry, lively, jovial;
10) excellent, first-class;
11) profane;
12) real, genuine;
13) courteous, polite, well-bred;
14) amiable, friendly, good-natured.
a) putrid;
b) modish;
c) scraggy;
d) serene;
e) breezy;
f) sublime;
g) civil;
h) stupendous;
i) first-rate;
j) enchanted;
k) obscene;
l) pukka;
m) affable;
n) blasphemous.
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IV. Fill in the verbs using them in the appropriate form: become, scold, beseech, steam, pass, bear, pour,
yield, tickle, escape, marvel, dissuade, resist, blaze, flee
1. Then two years more went by, or perhaps three, for time ___________imperceptibly in Tahiti, and it is hard to
keep count of it.
2. Ata had waylaid the cart that took the mail into Papeete, and ____________the man who drove it to go at once to
the doctor.
3. He walked up, and a little boy, playing unconcernedly in the sunshine, started at his approach and
_______________________ quickly away: to him the stranger was the enemy.
4. Then he started violently, and terror _______________in his heart, for he felt that someone was behind him.
5. She had not ___________________for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was
more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
6. She was evidently a copious talker, and now _________________forth a breathless stream of anecdote and
comment.
7. Because he painted the trees I see about me every day, the cocoa-nuts, the banyans, the flamboyants, the alligatorpears, I have seen them ever since differently, as though there were in them a spirit and a mystery which I am ever on
the point of seizing and which forever _______________me.
8. You will laugh at me. I am a materialist, and I am a gross, fat man, the lyrical mode does not ________________
me.
9. It gave me the impression you get when you are sitting next door to a room that you know is empty, but in which,
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you know not why, you have a dreadful consciousness that notwithstanding there is someone. You_____________
yourself; you know it is only your nerves -and yet, and yet... In a little while it is impossible to ________________the
terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
10. I thought it my duty to __________________ her, for I knew that here was a work of genius, and I did not think
we had the right to deprive the world of it.
11. When we ________________ slowly out of the lagoon, making our way gingerly through the opening in the reef,
and then steered for the open sea, a certain melancholy fell upon me.
12. She was by this time a woman of hard on sixty, but she _______________ her years well, and no one would
have taken her for more than fifty.
13. I had been slightly ________________ at the gentleness which Mrs. Strickland put into her mention of her
husband's name.
14. The conversation proceeded, and I ______________at the tact with which Mr. Van Busche Taylor avoided all
subjects that might have been in the least embarrassing.
V. Match the words below with their definitions:
a) exorcise, b) ember(s), c) cheroot, d) melancholy, e) stench, f) hag, g) dungarees, h) consolation, i) ingenuity,
j) odour, k) awe, l) nuisance.
1) a strong and very unpleasant smell –
2) a cigar with both ends cut flat –
3) drive out (an evil spirit) from a person or place –
4) a small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire –
5) a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause –
6) comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment –
7) a witch, esp. one in the form of an ugly old woman –
8) a person, thing, or circumstance causing inconvenience or annoyance –
9) a one-piece garment consisting of trousers, a piece of cloth which covers your chest, and straps which go over
your shoulders –
10) a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder –
11) resourcefulness, inventiveness –
12) a particular and distinctive smell –
Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ Sistine Chapel;
♦ Heliogabalus;
♦ Hesperides;
♦ Bakst;
♦ Military Cross.
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 212) – "His eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, and now he was seized by an overwhelming sensation.
………………. It was beautiful and obscene."
2) (p. 216–217) – “The colours were so strange that words can hardly tell what a troubling emotion they gave.
……… the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they were terrible with the possibilities of the Unknown.”
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Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. Why was it not easy for Dr. Coutras to find the way to Ata's house? (p. 211)
2. What did Ata’s house look like? (p. 211)
3. How long was Strickland blind? (p. 213)
4. What did Madame Coutras look like? (p. 213)
5. Was Dr. Coutras sorry when he heard that those strange masterpieces of Strickland had been destroyed? (p. 215)
6. What did Strickland do when he grew blind? (p. 215)
7. Did Strickland ever complain of his fate, did he ever lose courage? (p. 215)
8. What did Strickland make Ata promise him to do after she would bury him? (p. 215)
9. Who buried Strickland? (p. 215)
10. Did Dr. Coutras help Ata burn the house? (p. 215)
11. In the narrator’s opinion, why did Strickland want Ata to destroy the house? (p. 216)
12. What happened to Ata and the child? (p. 216)
13. What presents were given to the narrator when it was time for him to leave Tahiti? (p. 217)
14. Did the narrator plan to come back to Tahiti? (p. 218)
15. When did the narrator come to London after he had left Tahiti? (p. 218)
16. What did Mrs. Strickland look like? (p. 218)
17. What happened to Mrs. MacAndrew, Mrs. Strickland’s sister, and her husband? (p. 218)
18. Whom did the narrator meet in Mrs. Strickland’s drawing-room? (p. 218)
19. What was Strickland's version of the Holy Family? (p. 220)
II. Explain the following:
1. He could not make out where he was. He seemed on a sudden to have entered a magic world. (p. 212)
2. The demon which possessed him was exorcised at last, and with the completion of the work, for which all his life
had been a painful preparation, rest descended on his remote and tortured soul. (p. 214)
3. "What was the subject?" I asked.
"I scarcely know. It was strange and fantastic. (p. 214)
4. I had just the same feeling as when I went to the Sistine Chapel in Rome. There too I was awed by the greatness of
the man who had painted that ceiling. (p. 214)
5. We entered the room, and my eyes fell at once on the picture. I looked at it for a long time.
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(p. 216)
6. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death. (p. 218)
7. She made an appointment, and I went to the trim little house on Campden Hill which she now inhabited. (p. 218)
8. Then she turned to me. "Mr. Van Busche Taylor is the distinguished American critic.” (p. 219)
9. And yet on the walls were coloured reproductions of several of Strickland's best pictures. (p. 219)
10. “There's a certain responsibility about having been the wife of a genius." (p. 220)
11. She went to the door and called them. There entered a tall man in khaki. He was followed by his sister. (p. 221)
12. I do not know why I suddenly thought of Strickland's son by Ata. They had told me he was a merry, light-hearted
youth. (p. 222)
III. Speak on:
1. Strickland’s pictures.
Lesson 15. Vocabulary Revision (Lessons 11–14)
1) reticent;
2) niggardly;
3) debonair;
4) inexplicable;
5) lamentable;
6) enchanted;
7) infinity;
8) primeval;
9) unassuming;
10) prudence;
11) dauntless;
12) inapt;
13) kink;
14) altercation;
15) pauper;
16) predicament;
17) teetotaler.
a) первозданный, девственный, первобытный;
b) неподходящий, несоответствующий, негодный;
c) странность, заскок;
d) непритязательный, скромный;
e) заворожённый;
f) трезвенник;
g) скаредный, скупой;
h) перебранка, ссора;
i) затруднительное положение;
j) обходительный, вежливый, любезный, учтивый;
k) скрытный; умалчивающий;
l) бесстрашный, смелый, храбрый;
m) благоразумие, дальновидность;
n) бедняк, нищий, живущий на пособие по бедности;
o) безграничность, бесконечность;
p) печальный; прискорбный;
q) необъяснимый.
I. Give corresponding nouns:
revive –
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strike –
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ascribe –
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obsess –
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endure –
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adorn –
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anxious –
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vivacious –
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luxuriant –
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resign –
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reveal –
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exult –
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intrude –
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idle –
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lustrous –
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II. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents: