4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.

• Grimes was rather a brave person;

• Grimes was a man of strong will (self-possession; self-control);

• Grimes was quite a religious person;

• Grimes felt that life had been unfair to him;

• Grimes was an industrious man;

• Grimes was a careful person;

• Grimes had quite a rich imagination;

• Grimes was a man of sober mind;

• Grimes was a curious person (fond of watching people, observing their behavior and drawing conclusions about their characters and lives – keen on speculating);

• Grimes was a risk-taking person;

• Grimes was rather an intelligent person;

• Grimes was a gambling man;

• Grimes’s manner of speech altered significantly.

5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.

• What do people need solitude for? If we are social animals why do we sometimes seek solitude?

• We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart…and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. – H.Hayes

• It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. – K.T.Jong

• Your character is your fate, your rewards and failures are the result of your faults and virtures.

• Are people really destined for smth?

• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. – Seneca

• Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M.Forester

• Why do people sometimes behave so unexpectedly? (Where is the explanation for our actions?)

• Given half a chance, every man becomes the hero of his own detective story. There is a certain natural inclination for adventures in all of us.

• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. – M.McLaughlin

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – P.Picasso

• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – S.Kierkegaard.

6. Insert the right prepositions:

• Your rewards and failures were the result …………your faults and virtues.

• ………….. the wheel of the little Volkswagen, speeding …………….the great highways past Washington and Richmond and Savannah, I remembered Lord Jim.

• ………………. the beginning, all went well.

• I was content ……………….. the long sunny afternoons at the track and the solitary meals and the evenings spent studying the habits of trainers and jockeys.

• As Dr Ryan had assured me, the condition of my eyes did not interfere ………………… my ability to read.

• I reached …………………. the switch and the lobby was brightly lit.

• He was trying to grab……………….. the door.

• That was not unusual with my working hours, coming in after guests had checked ……………………. ……………… the night and leaving before they came down in the morning.

• Death was something you kept ……………….. of the sight of paying guests.

• That looked strange that the dead man had more than a thousand bucks ……………. cash……………… him.

• He and the driver picked…………….. the stretcher and I led the way …………………. the lobby.

• I will pass the word………………….. to the day man.

• Please get ……… touch ……………… me immediately…………………instructions.

• There was no need…………… the family in Chicago to know my name.

• There was nothing remarkable………………. a man carrying a cardboard tube wrapped………………… brown paper …………….. broad daylight.

• It was stuffed ……… top ………. bottom ……… one-hundred-dollar bills.

• At that table I could sit……………….. my back……………… the wall, with a clear view of the entrance……………….. the restaurant.

• I had no lease and was …………….. a month-to-month arrangement.

• ……….. the dim light of the corridor, I’d have been frightened too, if a naked man had suddenly sprung ……… waving the thing menacingly ……….. me.

• Do you wish to pay ………. cash or ………. check?

• I could no longer depend ……… simple reflexes or ………. anything in my past to guide me.

• I had only the vaguest notion ……….. what was meant by the Mob and a perhaps exaggerated respect ……… its omnipotence, its system of intelligence, its power to seek ……….. and destroy.

• I am ……….. my second year in medical school.