Shevtsova_second_year

He came back with the good news that the suit case ... and ... to the railway station (to find, to return). 6. The place always looked unsettled as though the family ... just or ... to leave (to move in, to be preparing). 7. When his mother fell ill he gave up his practice to take care of her so that she ... her wish which was that she ... to a hospital, (to have, not to send). 8. Remembering things which he ..., it occurred to him that he not ... a truthful picture of what ... (to say, to give, to take place). 9. I could feel we ... (to look at). 10. It will be the first vacation I ... in years (to take). 11. She wished she ... in the journey (to include). 12. I ... away for a year and a half (to be). 13. The kid didn't speak while his father ... (to shave); he knew that shaving was a delicate act and if you ... (to interrupt) you ... (may cut) yourself.

B. Mr. Cust (to sit) very still. His breakfast (to lie) cold and un-tasted on his plate. A newspaper (to put) up against the teapot and it was this newspaper that Mr. Cust (to read) with interest.

Suddenly he (to get up), (to walk) to and fro for a minute then (to sink) into a chair by the window. He (to cover) his face with his hands with a sigh.

He (not to hear) the sound of the opening door. His landlady, Mrs. Marbury, (to stand) in the doorway.

"I (to wonder), Mr. Cust, if you — why, whatever is it? You (not to feel) well?"

Mr. Cust (to raise) his head.

"Nothing. It's nothing at all, Mrs. Marbury. I (not to feel) very well this morning."

Mrs. Marbury inspected the breakfast tray.

"So I (to see). You (not to touch) your breakfast. Your head (to trouble) you again?"

"No, at least, yes ... I — I just (to feel) a bit low."

"Well I am sorry, I'm sure. You (not to go) away to-day then?" Mr. Cust (to jump) up abruptly.

"No, no I have to go. It's business. Important. Very important." His hands (to shake). Seeing him so excited, Mrs. Marbury (to try) to calm him.

"Well, if you must — you must. You (to go) far this time?" She (to pick up) the paper that (to lie) on the floor.

"Nothing but this murdering business in the paper nowadays," she (to say) as she (to glance) at the headlines before putting it back on the table. "Gives me the creeps, it does. I (not to read) it."

Mr. Cust's lips (to move) but no sound (to come) from them.

"Doncaster — that's the place he is going to do his next murder," (to say) Mrs. Marbury. "If I (to live) in Doncaster and my name (to begin) with a D. I (to take) the first train away, that I would. I (to run) no risks. What you (to say), Mr. Cust? Why, Mr. Cust, you do look bad. Hadn't you better have a little drop of something? Really, now you oughtn't to go travelling to-day." Mr. Cust (to pull) himself together.

"It is necessary, Mrs. Marbury. I always (to be) punctual in my business appointments. People must have — must have belief in you! When I (to promise) to do a thing, I (to carry) it through. It's the only way to get on in business."

"But if you (to be) ill?"

"I (not to be) ill, Mrs. Marbury. Just a little worried over different personal matters. I (to sleep) badly. I (to be) really quite all right."

His manner (to be) so firm that Mrs. Marbury (to gather) up the breakfast things and (to leave) the room.

(after "The A.B.C. Murders" by Agatha Christie)

Ex. 28. Test translation.

1. Обмен мнениями оказался очень полезным. 2. Вполне понятно, что изменения, внесенные в расписание работы учреждения, касаются всех его сотрудников. 3. Еще трудно сделать какие-либо определенные заключения относительно новой модели машины. Она требует проверки и детального изучения. 4. Портовые власти Ливерпуля были озабочены положением, вызванным забастовкой докеров. 5. К сожалению, нам пришлось взять назад свой заказ на продажу нам запасных частей, так как предложенное фирмой время поставки Для нас не подходило. 6. Убедительно просим вас подтвердить телеграммой наш телефонный разговор с вами относительно условий контракта. 7. Спектакль отменили из-за болезни актера, исполняющего главную роль. 8. Напрасно ты обидел товарища, не разобравшись в чем дело. Я бы на твоем месте извинился и взял свои слова обратно. 9. Замечания редактора не вызвали никаких возражений. 10. Не было никаких возражений против того, чтобы тов. Иванова назначили руководителем экспедиции. У него большой опыт работы и, к тому же, он умеет обращаться с людьми. 11. На дверях вагонов электропоездов обычно есть надпись: «Не прислоняться». 12. Замечание было неуместным, и всем стало неловко. 13. Казалось, что она была чем-то смущена. 14. Я не нашелся, что сказать. Мне никогда раньше не приходилось бывать в таком неловком положении. 15. Взрыв был вызван небрежным обращением с газом. 16. Врач заверил нас, что нет причин для беспокойства. 17. Как только вы приедете в город, дайте нам знать, в какой гостинице вы остановились.

PRECIS WRITING

Ex. 29. a) Read the passage; b) Write 3-5 questions covering the basic points of the passage; c) Give a title to the passage and write a precis.

I was shown into the waiting-room which, as I had expected was full. Any waiting-room—especially a dentist's, as this was—is not the best place in the

world to spend an afternoon. No matter how hard a dentist tries to make his waiting-room look pleasant, it always has an atmosphere of its own. There is that smell that reminds you of a hospital. A small table in the centre is covered with very old and torn magazines; the curtains are faded and the armchairs have a sunken look about them.

This waiting-room was no exception. I took my seat and decided to pass the time watching the people around me.

A little man beside me was turning over the pages of a magazine quickly and nervously. It was hard to understand what he was looking at, for every three minutes or so he would throw the magazine on the table, seize another, and sink back into his chair. Opposite me there was a young mother who was trying to keep her son from making a noise. The boy had obviously grown tired of waiting. He had placed an ash-tray on the floor and was making aeroplanenoises. Near him, an old man was fast asleep, and the boy's mother was afraid that sooner or later the boy would wake the gentleman up. Meanwhile, the little man beside me kept sighing loudly. At last, he got up, walked towards the door and began impatiently to examine the pictures on the wall. Soon, growing tired of it, he took another magazine from the pile on the table and dropped into his chair again. Even the boy had become quiet and was now sleeping in his mother's arms. There was a deathly silence in the room as the door opened and a nurse entered. The people looked up expectantly, then settled down again as the next lucky patient was led out of the room.

SPEECH EXERCISES

Ex. 30. Retell in narrative form.

"Excuse me, gentlemen," a voice said behind Dr. Ingram as he and Dr. Nicholas were leaving the lobby of the hotel. As they turned, a camera clicked. "That's good," he said. "Let's try it once more," and the camera clicked again.

The manager came hurrying up saying: "You are not allowed to take pictures..."

Dr. Ingram asked: "Are you a newspaper man?"

"Good question, doctor," the man with the camera said. "I wish my editor heard you, he's of a different opinion, but today he'll change his mind, when I send him these pictures."

"What paper?" asked the manager suspecting the worst, but hoping it wasn't anything important.

"New York Herald Tribune."

"Good." The dentists' president said. "They'll make the best of it. I hope you saw what happened."

"You might say I got the picture," the newspaper man said. "I'll need a few details from you, so I can spell the names right. First, though, I'd like another

picture outside the hotel — you and the other doctor together."

Dr. Ingram seized Dr. Nicholas's arm. "It's the way to fight this thing, Jim. We'll drag the name of this hotel through every newspaper in the country."

Dr. Nicholas nodded slowly.

As they were moving away Dr. Ingram was saying, "I'd like to do this fairly quickly. As soon as we have your pictures I intend to start pulling our convention out of this hotel. The only way to hit these people is where they feel it most—financially."

(after "Hotel" by Arthur Hailey)

Ex. 31. Answer the following questions using the active vocabulary. Sum up your answers.

1.A Hotel

1.What are hotels for? 2. What makes a hotel look different from other buildings in a city? 3. In what part of a city are the better hotels situated? 4. What does the inside of a hotel look like? 5. What is in the lobby? 6. What is Reception for? What are the duties of the reception clerk? 7. What services does a hotel offer to its guests? 8. What do prices for a room depend on? 9. Would you rather stay at a hotel or at your friend's when in a strange city?

2.Checking in

1. When do people stop at hotels? 2. When is a reservation made? How is it made? 3. What must you do on arrival? 4. How are people checked in? What papers must they have with them? 5. Why are the guests requested to leave their keys at Reception each time they leave the hotel? 6. When is it difficult to get a room at a hotel? 7. Is it the duty of the hotel management to find other accommodation in the city for a guest they can't take in?

3.A Congress

1.What problems does a biological (oncological, etc.) congress deal with?

2.Why are congresses held? How often are they held? What does it depend on? What has the importance of a certain branch of science got to do with it? 3. When does the Preparatory (Organisation) Committee start its work? What are its duties? 4. Why is it important that the delegates should know the programme beforehand? 5. What language does a delegate use when making his report? 6. Why are there special booths for translators? 7. Why are there radios (radio receivers) built into the chairs of the delegates? 8. What are earphones for? 9. What makes the work of a congress successful?

Ex. 32. Read the passage, апзшг the. questions, using the vocabulary of the lesson and retell it.

A Colorado farmer finished his work for the day and turned toward the house, where supper was waiting. In the dark autumn sky he noticed the lights of an airplane. It was United Air Lines Flight* Number 629, eleven minutes out of Denver and heading for Portland, Oregon, with thirty-nine passengers and five crew members.** Suddenly there was a terrible explosion. It was 7.03 P.M., November 1, 1955. The farmer standing in his yard had witnessed one of the most shocking mass murders in the annals of American crime.

When news of the tragedy reached Denver, only one man knew that murder had been committed that night. Only one man knew that a time bomb had been ticking in an old suitcase when it was loaded on the plane. The man was Jack Gilbert Graham, aged twenty-three, who once told a neighbour, "I'd do anything for money."

Jack Graham had driven his mother Mrs. Daisy King, to the Denver airport to put her aboard Flight 629, the beginning of a long-planned journey to visit a daughter in Alaska. He carried her valise and her old suitcase from the automobile to the ticket counter to bs weighed.*** The luggage was thirty-seven pounds over the sixty-six pound limit.

An airline ticket agent suggested (to Mrs. King that she might save $27 by lightening her luggage and mailing part of her clothing.

Mrs. King turned to her son. "Do you think I'll need all this?" "Yes, Mother," he assured her. "I'm sure you will need it."

Mrs. King hesitated a moment and then nodded. While she was paying the overweight charge, her son filled out two insurance policies for $37,500 each and two others for S 6,250 each. Mrs. King signed three of the policies but for some reason Jack didn't get her signature on one for $37,500. Perhaps the ticking of the time bomb was beginning to sound in his ears and he was becoming panicky. His mother's plane was behind schedule and time was running out.

Flight 629 arrived eleven minutes late. For Jack Graham there were twelve more agonizing minutes while the plane sat waiting for a late passenger. At last the door of the plane shut behind the late passenger, and at 6.52 P.M. the big ship took off.

Questions

1. What tragedy occurred in November, 1955? 2. Who happened to witness the accident? 3. What had caused the explosion? 4. How was the accident later described by the press? 5. How was the crime prepared? 6. Where was Mrs.

*рейс

**члены экипажа

***взвешитвать

King going? 7. Who brought her to the airport? 8. Why did the ticket agent suggest that Mrs. King mail part of her clothing? 9. What remarks did mother and son exchange on the matter of luggage? 10. Why did Jack object to the luggage being opened? 11. What did Jack do while his mother was paying the overweight charge? 12. Why did one of the insurance policies remain unsigned? 13. Why was Jack becoming panicky? 14. What would have happened if the flight had been cancelled? 15. What facts concerning Jack came to light during the inquiry? 16. What confirmed the suspicions of the police that it was Mrs. King's son who was responsible for the tragedy?

Ex. 33. Read the following, answer the questions. Retell the passage in English.

ЕСЛИ ТЫ НЕГР...

... Расизм продолжает оставаться одной из характерных черт американского общества. Это вынуждены признать сегодня в Вашингтоне. Специальная комиссия, созданная после острых расовых столкновений в США в 1967 году, пришла к выводу в своем докладе, что Соединенные Штаты «являются страной глубоко расистской».

Условия жизни цветного населения Америки ухудшаются из года в год. В гетто американских городов, в непригодных для жилья помещениях живут негры, мексиканцы, пуэрториканцы. Здесь чувствуется острый недостаток школ и больниц.

Побывавшая недавно в США колумбийская писательница Мария Исабель де ла Вега отмечает в своей книге «Расизм в США»: «Гетто — это тюрьма, где негр — не человек. Ему отказывают в праве на человеческие чувства, за ним не признают способности к интеллектуальной деятельности и даже способности страдать».

Автор доклада о положении в штате Миссисипи, представленного одной из подкомиссий сената США, отмечал, что он был поражен условиями жизни негритянского населения в этом штате. «Когда я отправлялся в Миссисипи, — говорит он, — мне рассказывали, что существует план истребления негров, но этому я не хотел верить. Сейчас, когда я все увидел своими глазами, я верю».

Цветной в сегодняшней Америке — последний человек. Его берут на работу последним и увольняют первым. Для цветных оставляют самые тяжелые и хуже оплачиваемые виды работы. Они практически лишены возможности продвигаться по службе.

Questions

1. What remains a characteristic feature of life in present-day America? 2. What conclusion did a special US Congress committee come to concerning the causes of racial unrest in the country? 3. What are the living conditions of the

THE HOSPITABLE TAXI-DRIVER

(an episode from Charlie Chaplin's "Autobiography")

That evening when I arrived in New York, every hotel was filled. After driving round for over an hour, the taxi-driver a rough-looking fellow of about forty, turned and said: "Listen, there is no sense in trying to get into any hotel at this hour, and you're unlikely to find any other accommodation, so you'd better come home to my place and sleep there until the morning."

"That's very kind of you," I said, feeling embarrassed, and introduced myself.

He was surprised, and smiling broadly said: "My wife will get a kick* out of this."

We arrived somewhere in the Bronx** and entered one of the ordinarylooking houses. He led me to a back room where there was a large bed, in it a boy of twelve, his son, was sleeping. "Wait," the driver said, then he lifted the boy and put him over to the edge of the bed making room for me. Then he turned to me, "Get in there."

I was going to refuse, but his hospitality was so touching that I could not refuse. He gave me a clean night-shirt and I climbed into bed carefully for fear

of waking or disturbing the bov.

I never slept a wink.*** In the morning when the boy got up and dressed, through my half-closed eyes I saw him give me an indifferent look and leave the room. A few minutes later he and a young lady of eight, evidently his sister, came into the room. Still pretending to be asleep I saw them staring at me wideeyed and excited. Then the two of them left.

It wasn't long before I heard a whisper in the passage, then the driver gently opened the door to see if I was awake. I assured him that I was.

"We've got your bath ready," he said. "It's at the end of the passage." He had brought a dressing-gown and some slippers**** and a towel. "What would

you like for breakfast?"

"Anything," I said apologetically.

"Whatever you want — bacon and eggs, toast and coffee?" "Wonderful."

They timed it perfectly. The minute I finished dressing, his wife came into the room with a hot breakfast. There was little furniture but a centre table, an armchair, and a sofa; a couple of photographs of family groups hung on the wall over the sofa. While eating breakfast alone I could hear the noise coming from a crowd of children and grownups outside the house.

"They are beginning to know that you're here," smiled his wife, bringing in

*kick (sl): here pleasure

**one of the five boroughs of New York

***не сомкнул глаз

****домашние туфли

The hotel, sir? Turn right, go as far as the prison, then turn left, past the police station and another prison, then you'll see a movie house with a "White Only" sign, move straight on till you get to the Black district, then turn left.

Ex. 38. Subjects for oral and written composition.

1.Tell the story as if you were: a) Dr Nicholas; b) Dr Ingram; c) the receptionist; d) Mr. Bailey; e) a guest who happened to witness the scene.

2.Give character-sketches of a) Dr Nicholas; b) Dr Ingram; c) Mr. Bailey.

3.Write a summary of the text.

4.The struggle of the coloured community in the USA for its rights.

5.The causes of the Civil War in the USA. Say whether the victory of the Northerners over the troops of the Confederation brought freedom to the Negro population in the true sense of the word.

6.Explain why an episode of the kind described in the text would be altogether unthinkable in the Soviet Union.

7.Write a letter to a hotel making a reservation, and then another confirming your reservation.

8.Describe your stay at a hotel.