Chapters 22-23

I. Word combinations and word expressions for intensive study: to pit smb. out of one's mind

to love smb. to distraction

to do smb. good

to see much of smb.

to make a clean breast of smth.

to get hold of smb.

right away

to be hard on smb.

to put an end to smth.

to distract one's mind

to feel abhorrence for

on the strength of

nineteen to the dozen

to take a long breath

to get over smth.

sense of duty

to play opposite to smb.

to fly in a temper

to pull oneself together

to have patience with smb.

to persuade smb. to the contrary

to put up a notice

to take hold of oneself

to give release to one's feelings

to cramp one's style

to be in the way

well over seventy

to make up for smth.

to atone for smth.

to regain one's serenity

a bygone age

heart-rending sensation

to pay a call

to be in a flutter

to smb's liking

to reason with smb.

to grow sharp with smb.

to be taken aback

to be at one's beck and call

to believe in one's good fortune

to run the risk of

to have a fitting

to send by return of post.

Write out the sentences in which they are used.

II. Provide synonyms for: monotonous (life).

III. Translate the passage: "She spent a wretched day... ... to give her a peep at her feet of clay".

IV. Answer the following questions:

1. Do you think Julia really was harassed and unhappy?

2. Was there anybody Julia could confide in?

3. Why do you think Julia felt a sudden abhorrence for the circle she had moved in during the last year?

4. Where did Julia find refuge and why?

5. Did Julia realize that she acted poorly?

6. Why was Julia's performance was a mess?

7. Do you think Michael really meant it when he said: "Darling, Duse couldn't hold a candle to you?" How do you understand his words?

8. Is your opinion of life at St. Malo the same as Julia's: "Poor old girls, they couldn't live much longer and they led drab, monotonous lives"?

9. Why do you think Julia's mother didn't want her friends to know that her daughter was an actress?

V. Comment on:

"That was quite another pair of shoes. Her acting was more important than any love affair in

the world".

"The pain in her heart was unendurable".

"Her acting ceased to be a means by which she gave release to her feelings and was again the

manifestation of her creative instinct".

"They had achieved the aloofness from the common ties of men that Julia felt in herself when

she stood at the footlights bowing to the applause of an enthusiastic audience. Sometimes she

had thought that aloofness her most precious possession. In her it was born of pride; in them

of humility".

VI. Translate the following.

1.Ей нужно было выплакаться перед кем-нибудь, дать волю чувствам, удовлетворить желание разобрать Тома по косточкам, назвать его жалким прыщом.

2. Хорошо, конечно, было бы поехать к Долли, а впрочем, достаточно и позвонить: Долли примчалась бы по первому зову и была бы рада помочь ей. Она, конечно, будет шокирована и почувствует страшную ревность, когда Джулия выложит ей все начистоту.

3. Это польстило бы Долли, но, как бы она не сочувствовала, невозможно было и предположить, что у нее хватит человечности, чтобы на самом деле пожалеть измотанную и уставшую Джулию.

4. Когда она подошла к этой сцене, она дала себе волю, дала выход своей боли.

5. Может быть я и плохой актер, так я всегда и сам думал, но могу отличить плохую игру от хорошей.

6. Вот уж никогда не ожидала от тебя такой неразборчивой расточительности.

7. Совершенно естественно, что ему веселее с друзьями его возраста.

8. Она оденется так, чтоб всех очаровать.

9. Она легко вжилась в обстановку.

VII. Make a list of the chief events in these chapters.