6. Write an essay on one of the following topics:

21. Dwell on Jerusha’s words: “The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being PLIABLE”.

22. Do you agree that ‘when you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation’?

7. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using the words from ex.1

1. В некоторых университетах способным студентам назначают стипендию.

2. Он просто избалованный ребенок, я рекомендую тебе не поддаваться его капризам.

3. Завтра воскресенье, и я бы хотела хорошенько выспаться.

4. Она купила новое платье и теперь хочет похвастать им на вечеринке.

5. Каждый день нам напоминают, что мы должны платить налоги.

6. Вы уже привыкли к Вашей новой квартире?

7. Иногда дети не хотят быть обузой своим родителям, и они сбегают из дома и начинают жить самостоятельно.

8. Если ты хочешь десерт, просто выбери тот, который тебе нравится больше всего.

9. Наш новый учитель действительно эксцентричный человек, он носит цветастую одежду и большие розовые очки.

10. Вчера мы отправились на пикник к озеру, но погода была непредсказуемой и мы попали в шторм.

11. Я никогда не беру денег взаймы, и поэтому мне не приходится возвращать долги.

12. Моя дочь очень исполнительная и отзывчивая, она никогда никого не подводит.

8. Answer the following questions:

1. Master Jervie: his character, looks.

2. What did Judy learn to do during her stay at the farm?

3. Judy and Master Jervie at Sky Hill.

4. What Stevenson’s idea did Judy like?

5. What alternative did Judy and Master Jervie chose to going to church with the Semples?

6. What book was Judy reading at that time? How did it influence her?

7. How did Judy feel after Master Jervie had gone away?

8. What did she write that summer?

9. What was Master Jervie’s opinion of her works?

10. What good news did Judy write about in one of her letters?

11. What was the name of Judy’s book?

12. Describe Judy’s room at college that year.

13. What did Daddy-Long-Legs’s think about the scholarship Judy had been awarded?

14. Did Judy obey Daddy-Long-Legs? Give reasons.

9Th November

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I started down town today to buy a bottle of shoe blacking and some collars and the material for a new blouse and a jar of violet cream and a cake of Castile soap – all very necessary; I couldn't be happy another day without them – and when I tried to pay the car fare, I found that I had left my purse in the pocket of my other coat. So I had to get out and take the next car, and was late for gymnasium.

It's a dreadful thing to have no memory and two coats!

Julia Pendleton has invited me to visit her for the Christmas holidays. How does that strike you, Mr. Smith? Fancy Jerusha Abbott, of the John Grier Home, sitting at the tables of the rich. I don't know why Julia wants me – she seems to be getting quite attached to me of late. I should, to tell the truth, very much prefer going to Sallie's, but Julia asked me first, so if I go anywhere it must be to New York instead of to Worcester. I'm rather awed at the prospect of meeting Pendletons EN MASSE, and also I'd have to get a lot of new clothes – so, Daddy dear, if you write that you would prefer having me remain quietly at college, I will bow to your wishes with my usual sweet docility.

I'm engaged at odd moments with the Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley – it makes nice, light reading to pick up between times. Do you know what an archaeopteryx is? It's a bird. And a stereognathus? I'm not sure myself, but I think it's a missing link, like a bird with teeth or a lizard with wings. No, it isn't either; I've just looked in the book. It's a mesozoic mammal.

I've elected economics this year – very illuminating subject. When I finish that I'm going to take Charity and Reform; then, Mr. Trustee, I'll know just how an orphan asylum ought to be run. Don't you think I'd make an admirable voter if I had my rights? I was twenty-one last week. This is an awfully wasteful country to throw away such an honest, educated, conscientious, intelligent citizen as I would be.

Yours always,

Judy