4. Read and translate the sentences below from the point of view of stylistic value and emotionality.

   1. The pubs were full, but clubs were not yet open, and the pavements were uncrowded. (I. McEwan)

   2. It was almost dark when he unlocked the door on the sidewalk and trudged up the noisy steps to his place. (J. Grisham)

   3. A saucy third-year student named Kaley was making advance, but his defenses were in place. (J. Grisham)

   4. Forrest's turn for the worse came early in life and put even more pressure on Ray to follow the old man into life of genteel poverty. (J. Grisham)

   5. At exactly five, ray decided he was tired of waiting. He had traveled a long way for this moment, and he wanted to take care of business. (J. Grisham)

   6. You never met Sally. There's the sweetest broad that ever walked God's earth. (S. Sheldon)

   7. The college students paid him seven hundred dollars for this talk. Millionaires gave him shit. (J. Heller)

How McWorld is taking over the universe

I'm all for exporting American values such as freedom and democracy, says Leonard Pitts Jr, but after my recent visit to Poland I'm beginning to realise that "Americanisation" can go too far. Staring down from a giant mural on a Warsaw skyscraper was the US basketball star Allen Iverson, hawking, needless to say, a pair of Nike trainers. And everywhere you go in Poland you come across Pizza Huts, McDonald's, Mars bars, and Levi's; posters of US pop stars; people wearing baseball hats. Sure, "there is a certain pride that comes from seeing your country's products, fashions and mores eagerly adopted by a new democracy"; but there's also a deeper, troubling feeling that Poland's rich culture is being overwhelmed by "McWorld" - a universe in which free-market forces "teach people what to want and then give it to them". It's a great way to move products of course - but it leaves in its wake a "blanded, blended uniformity". These days, when I travel around the US, I sometimes forget where I am, because every town offers "the same jumble of golden arches and Wal-Mart signs". There's probably not much Americans can do to reverse this. But do the people of Poland "understand that they are selling their uniqueness for the price of an MTV video?" (The Week, Best of American Columnist