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- •Laboratory work 2
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- •Laboratory work 3
- •Practice: Task 33
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- •Practice: shortening Task 39
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- •Laboratory work 5
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- •5. Tiresome because it seems to be interminable or to be marked by unremitting sameness
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Task 79
Recollect homonyms for the underlined words in the following sayings and proverbs.
1. None so deaf as those who won't hear.
2. Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
3. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
4. Drop by drop the sea is drained.
5. The belly is not filled with fair words.
6. As you sow you shall mow.
7. Little pitchers have long ears.
8. One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.
9. If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Task 80
Recollect homonyms for the underlined words in the "familiar quotations"'.
1. Gambling is an express train to ruin (Unknown).
2. He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it (P. Charron).
3. To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting (E. Burke).
4. What is justice? To give every man his due (Aristotle).
5. Waste not fresh tears over old grieves (Euripides).
6. He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires and fears, is more than a king (J. Milton).
Task 81
Recollect homonyms for the underlined words. Use dictionaries, if necessary. Identify them as homophones, homographs, homonyms proper.
1. I was frying a slice of liver next evening when he turned up at the door (N. Gordimer).
2. Angry women, seeing white sheets lying in the dust, threw sticks and stones at Pat, and I had to pray that they would never hit and kill him (A. Marshall).
3. The doctor crossed the ward and stopped beside the bed of the drunk who was sitting waiting for him, his face with its twitching mouth stamped with anxiety (A. Marshall).
4. Blood was oozing out of his shoulder wound (P.M. Stewart).
5. After a respectable period of time had passed, Henryk explained that he must return to work, thanked Mrs. Rennick for her co-operation, paid the bill and left (J. Archer).
6. I repeated my prayers to him while he listened, gazing at the ceiling, his hands clasped on his chest (A. Marshall).
7. She sat on the high seat, bracing herself to every plunge or sway, one hand clutching the nickel rail at the end (A. Marshall).
8. These straggling, excited groups were mainly composed of men with green boughs in their hats and the most ludicrous of weapons in their hands (R. Sabatini).
Task 82
What are the homophones of the words? Use an English-Russian dictionary.
1. ate 11. flocks 21. stair
2. away 12. fowl 22. straight
3. awl 13. Grisly 23.tacks
4. bait 14. Knap 24. taut
5. beat 15 Leak 25. tied
6. bread 16. Lynx 26. urn
7. carat 17. Male 27. weigh
8. cede 18. Pause 28. wrack
9. corral 19. Pi 29. wry
10.cygnet 20. Sine 30. yore