Student’s File

Part 7 (Chapters 31-35)

1. Active Vocabulary

While reading the chapter, make sure you know the following words and word combinations:

Chapter 31

• to make/run a copy

• to tamper with smth.

• to file for divorce

• a breach of (security)

• a pickpocket

• cockiness/cocky

• coincidental

Chapter 32

• a settlement=a payment of money claimed/to settle=to pay

• (to be/seem) phony

• to stutter

• to stammer

• a pawnshop

• to alert smb.

• to set up (a company)

• (a) bogus (company) (derog.)=pretended; intentionally false

• weird

Chapter 33

• a leave of absence

• an adversary

• loot

• to forge/a forger/forged

• tangibles/tangible (adj.)

• to scurry

Chapter 34

• a protected witness

• to sob

• a traitor

• disgrace

• to shriek (in pain)

• to summon smb.

• high-ranking

• to be onstage (ant.=to be offstage)

• debris

• to scatter

• to console smb.

• (to land) squarely (on one’s feet)=directly

• to scribble

Chapter 35

• shortly before/after

• to fade

• unrestrained

• to jabber/a jabber

• to be out of practice

• rusty (of one’s knowledge of a language)=mostly forgotten

• nerve-racking

• painstaking

• to marvel at smth.

• to convict/a convict

• to be a step ahead of smb.

• to check in under a name

• to blindfold smb.

• to rip smth. open

• (an) incriminating (record)

2. Topical Vocabulary

While reading the chapter, make sure you know the following words and word combinations. Make use of them to cover the relevant topic.

Health and Medicine

Chapter 31

• lung cancer

• to remove a lung

• to undergo (a) surgery

• to check into a hospital with smth.

• chest pains

• a bad hangover

Chapter 32

• a nurse

• an orderly

• a (stomach) cramp

• to run tests

• to see (a psychiatrist)

• to discharge from hospital

• a slight/alleged/fake heart attack

• wires and tubes

• an IV (AmE) (BrE=a drip)=medical equipment that is used to put liquid directly into blood=капельница

• to fake

Chapter 34

• to vomit

• to wobble

• a groin

Office Equipment

Chapter 32

• a cubicle

• a paper shredder

• a high-speed printer

• a state-of-the-art computer

Prison

Chapter 33

• a cell

• a bunk bed

• the bars

• a compound

• a courtyard

• a guard tower

• to be heavily armed

• an inmate

• coiled barbed wire

• a siren

• to go off (of a siren)

Clothes

Chapter 32

• a sweat suit (AmE) (BrE=a track suit)

• canvas sneakers (AmE) (BrE=trainers)

Chapter 34

• (a) kelly-green (coat)

• buckskins=брюки из оленьей или козьей кожи

Chapter 35

• faded (jeans)

• a plaid (shirt)

• a short-sleeved (shirt)

• corduroy pants/jeans=corduroys

• a nightshirt

Traveling

Chapter 35

• to seat in the rear

• a lounge

• to flag (a taxi)

• to lift off for somewhere

• to rent a car/a rental car