7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.

1. Приложения к инструкции тоже требуют внимательного изучения.

2. Обвинение, предъявленное преступнику, было опровергнуто его адвокатом.

3. У нас есть некоторые подозрения по поводу того, что наши партнеры с нами нечестны, но мы не можем это ясно выразить.

4. Экранизация столь захватывающего детектива оказалась весьма скучной и прозаичной.

5. Не стоит преувеличивать важность соответствия нормам поведения, принятым в той или иной группе людей. Оставайтесь собой!

6. Неприятно быть ограбленным на улице средь бела дня.

7. Иногда состоятельные люди даже не задумываются о том, как важно делать пожертвования в разные благотворительные фонды.

8. Не разменяете ли мне 100 долларов мелкими купюрами? – Да, пожалуйста, вот ваша квитанция.

9. На данные момент нет смысла наводить справки о новых сотрудниках.

10. Всемогущество требует ответственности и меры.

11. У Мэри была раздражающая привычка всех перебивать.

12. Доктор заверил Джима, что состояние его здоровья не помешает работе.

13. В прошлом году мы стали свидетелями очень странного происшествия.

14. Не было никакого смысла разговаривать с нею о планах на будущее.

Chapters 5-6

Words and expressions to remember

• to check out

• to board a bus

• to register under a name

• to go to extreme lengths to do sth

• pugnacious

• to serve sb right

• to wind up doing sth

• at one’s / smb’s disposal

• to come into a little dough

• to fish out

• an overworked look

• condescending

• despicable

• to know next to nothing

• inmate

• to leap at an opportunity

• to come to a halt

• ferocious

• exhilarating

• a nightcap

• in the prime of life

• to have the virtue to do

• unscrupulous

• to trace down

• an overwhelming desire

• a naughty world

• on the edge of crime

• deprived

• reluctant

• prudent

• a margin of doubt

• outgoing

• to have a knack for business

• to overcome objections

• to work fingers to the bone

• to despise

• even-tempered

• solicitous

• to keep track of

• exhausted

• MIT

• to put one’s finger on sth

• to be on to smth

• to bear the burden

1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.

2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.

• My patriotism did not run in the direction of bloodshed;

• Deception I found was coming easily;

• To be in the middle ranks of the Foreign Service;

• I had no taste for the ordinary kind of male conquest;

• A whole new world seemed to be opening up before me;

• I’m playing a role that can’t be beat. The dauntless Portia striking deadly blows at the malefactors of great wealth;

• We all have to pretend we love our roles;

• I am just a simple country boy;

• It’s America’s real living theatre. Standing room only at every performance. Except that it’s a peculiar audience. The good seats are all filled by actors (allusion to Shakespeare);

• After what I had done in the St.Augustine Hotel, I could hardly refuse on moral grounds;

• Was it possible that for thirty-three years I had miscalculated absolutely what sort of man I was?

• If you wanted to figure out what your future was going to be, you had to have a firm grasp on you past;

• I had received much more that I had given and the imbalance disturbed me…

• By high American standards I am a failure;

• They worked their fingers to the bone.

2. Answer the questions.

• What did Grimes travel to Washington for?

• Why did Grimes think that is was suitable to celebrate Nixon’s inauguration at Arlington?

• What acquaintance did Grimes make in Washington?

• Why did Grimes want to visit his brother himself?

• Why did Grimes agree to take part in a poker game?

• What kind of company (circle/group of people) did Grimes find himself in Washington?

• What facts did you learn about Evelyn Coates?

• Was Evelyn a career-oriented person?

• How do you account for Grimes’s stopping stutter in the presence of Evelyn?

• Why didn’t Grimes want Henry’s wife to know about his visit?

• What kind of man was Henry?

• What feelings were aroused in Grimes on meeting his brother Henry?

• What shocked Grimes about the appearance of his brother?

• What troubled Henry about his health?

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

• Grimes was quite patriotic (to some extent);

• Mr.Hale from the State department was as American as an Apple Pie;

• Grimes was touched by his meeting with Hale;

• Grimes was rather shy;

• Grimes was generous;

• Evelyn was shrewd;

• Grimes was brilliant at making acquaintances;

• Grimes was just a lucky country man (not spoilt by big money);

• Grimes was a man of conscious (conscientious);

• Grimes was a determined person;

• Grimes was a cold-hearted person;

• Henry really loved Grimes;

• The two brothers went their different ways;

• Henry was a loving caring father;

• Americans are a nation of hard-working people;

• Grimes was the happiest (luckiest) of all the 3 brothers;

• Henry was a disappointed person (frustrated; disheartened);

• Henry was confident that his enterprise would be a success.

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

• Official patriotism versus people’s patriotism

• Avoid the chambers of the mighty. Danger lurks at their doorsteps.

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. – A. Lincoln

• He loves his country best who strives to make it best. – R.G. Ingersoll

• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country not to its institutions or its office holders. – M. Twain.

• Politics has no relation to morals. – N. Machiavelli

• Rural American public and top figures from capitals (the discrepancy): interests; way of life; the general outlook.

• 2 ways for young capable/talented men. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

• Duty and honour (the two driving forces of an average person).

• “I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done” – author unknown

• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. – J. Allen

• Setting too high standards may lead people to broken dreams and hopes.