IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.

1. Ever since they met those two have been … .

2. The offer was so good that I couldn’t … it.

3. Studies have shown that laughter enhances … and protects against disease.

4. When the floods … , the streets were littered with … .

5. I don't think she wanted us to come and stay with her, she just offered out of … .

6. Florian came to study to the United States on a Fulbright … .

7. Somehow we managed to … the boat out of the water and onto the bank.

8. Attempts to … abortion have so far been unsuccessful.

V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions or adverbs where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences.

1. After that, the town continued to sink until spring floods finally washed it … .

2. His only reason for investing in the company was to take it … .

3. She was so striking – I was hopelessly … love … her. She went … together with my elder brother.

4. Let me bring you … … date … all the latest gossip.

5. People are funny. You never know what goes … … their heads. I thought he was going to propose … me, but in fact he just wanted to borrow some money.

6. Now the war is over, everything is … … normal again.

7. Accessible only by air, the town is cut … from the rest of the country.

8. What a business it is to run … a government!

9. The visit passed … without any serious incidents.

10. Lately she has taken … spending long hours alone in her room, only coming downstairs for meals.

11. The afternoon wore … much the same as the morning, only more slowly.

12. One of my colleagues commutes … a rented house in the suburbs of New York … Wall Street.

VI. Find the notions defined below in the text. Fill in the gaps in the sentences that follow with these notions.

1. A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, discomfort, or nervousness, especially in front of other people.

2. A special quality or power of giving delight, arousing admiration and influencing other people easily.

3. A state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect; a sense of pride in oneself, self-respect; a composed or serious manner or style.

4. A thing, condition, or quality of being secret, strange, or difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

5. A feeling, quality, or state of being deliberately unhelpful; causing difficulty, hard to do or deal with; being deliberately unreasonable or uncooperative; being uncomfortable, inconvenient or abnormal.

   1. She read my poem out to the whole class – I almost died of … .

   2. Prisoners should be treated with regard for human … .

   3. He was a leader of great character and tremendous personal … .

   4. Jack tried to smooth over the … of the situation.

   5. Scientists continue to unravel the … of human genes.

VII. Replace the words underlined with an expression from the text based on the word(s) in brackets. Make any necessary grammatical changes.

Example: The rain continued without a break until April (went on). =

It went on raining until April.

1. Crossing the mountains was just possible but very dangerous (it/to get across).

2. No one could resist the sight of her when she walked by (heads/to turn).

3. The two women began to compete more and more aggressively for promotion (rivalry/between).

4. Maggie wrote regularly to inform us of events in the village (to keep up to date).

5. When the holidays were over, Tom did not come home from France (to stay on).

6. For the next five years her parents saw no more of her (last).

7. He did not want to speak to her (unwillingly).

8. It felt almost as if nothing had changed since they were kids (old times).

9. Peter would not listen to anyone, and went into the forest (to insist).

10. It was impossible for Tim to desert Sandy (to leave alone).

VIII. The author creates emphasis in the story. It is achieved by means of emphatic ‘it’ and word order, i.e. an adverbial phrase is put at the beginning of the sentence. Look at the examples from the story. What does the author make use of the emphatic constructions for? Discuss each example given and all the other cases of the emphatic constructions you can find in the text. Change the following sentences from the story so as to make them emphatic. What other means of creating emphasis do you know?

Example: It was the flood which caused it.

First came the rain.

1. Colin Campbell made two trips before Christmas.

2. They spent the vacations together.

3. Life went on like this for the next nine years.

4. He commuted from there to Glasgow on weekdays.

5. They found Colin’s body three days later.

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