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II. Look up the synonyms to snatch, to seize, to grip (схватить) in an English-English dictionary or a reference book and explain the difference between them.

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I. Translate the following sentences or parts of sentences from the text:)

1. Not that the lust to kill had suddenly descended on her, or that she felt she would leave India safer and more wholesome than she had found it, with one wild beast less per million inhabitants. 2. ... only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing. 3. ... with a tiger-

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skin rug occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation. 4. ... and it so happened that a neighbouring village could boast of being the favoured rendezvous of an animal which had been driven by old age to abandon game-killing and confine its appetite to the smaller domestic animals. 5. A goat, gifted with a particularly persistent bleat such as even a partially deaf tiger might be reasonably expected to hear on a still night, was tied to a stake at the correct distance. 6. With an accurately sighted rifle and a thumb-nail pack of patience.cards the sportswomen awaited the appearance of the tiger. 7. "Hush!" said Mrs. Packletide, and at that moment the tiger commenced ambling towards his victim. 8. "Now, now!" urged Miss Mebbin with some excitement. 9. The rifle .flashed out with a loud report, and the great tawny beast sprang to one side and then rolled over in the stillness of death. 10. ... the villagers, anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the beast. 11. ... and it seemed a fitting and appropriate thing when Mrs. Packletide went to the County Costume Ball in the character of Diana. 12. ... said Miss Mebbin with her disagreeably pleasant smile.

II. Find English equivalents in the text for the following Russian word combinations, phrases and sentences:

она только об этом и говорила; подарить кому-л. брошь из тигрового когтя; дать обед в честь кого-л.; ... чтобы он довольствовался этим местом охоты; в тихую ночь; быть в опасности; беспокоясь за свои деньги; а что касается кого-л.; костюмированный бал; она отказалась от заманчивого предложения (она не пошла на это); перепугать кого-л. до смерти; она побледнела; выдавать кого-л.; это очень дешево, почти даром!; перестать охотиться на крупного зверя; непредвиденные расходы

III. Reproduce situations from the text using the following word combinations:

1. to be governed by dislike of smb, to be carried eleven miles (in an aeroplane), to talk of nothing-else; 2. to give lunch in smb's honour, a tiger-skin rug, a tiger-claw brooch; 3. to offer a thousand rupees, to shoot a tiger without overmuch risk or exertion, to boast of smth, to be driven by old age, to abandon big-game killing; 4. the prospect of earning (a lot of money), to arouse smb's interest, on the outskirts of, to keep smb satisfied with smth, to die of old age, the date appointed for the shooting party; 5. moonlit and cloudless, on a still night, to be in danger, to be cut short, to catch sight of, to snatch a short rest, a loud (sudden) report; 6. to come running, to take up, to draw (smb's) attention to, to find no trace of smth, the wrong animal, to die of heart failure; 7. to be annoyed at smth, at any rate, to be anxious for, to connive at the fiction that, to spread far and wide, as for; 8. to fall in with a suggestion, a dance party, to be amused, to frighten smb to death, the colour left her face, to give smb away; 9. I'd rather buy ..., quite a bargain, to manage to do smth; 10. to give up big-game shooting, incidental expenses, to confide smth to smb

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