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Parts V-VI Exercises

Pre-reading Tasks

1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:

endure, alert, yielding, usher, alert, row, plaintive, neither, regret, agony, revulsion, tangle, outrageous, ludicrous, invulnerable, island, plaintive, palm.

Vocabulary Tasks

1. Find in the story the English for:

здаватися неважливим; відчувати приязнь; у глибині душі бути реалістом; здаватися поверховим; бути абсолютно байдужим до думки суспільства; глибокий біль, що його призначено лише сильним людям; не відчувати неприязнь; передати управління бізнесом партнеру; певне полегшення; чоловік на ім’я; зайти в офіс по справах; бути шафером на весіллі; з безтурботною зацікавленістю; без розуміння того, що відбувається; „ходити наліво”, зраджувати; заспокоювати голос; бути схильним думати; поводитися з кимсь як диявол; починати бійку; закохатися без тями; в’янути; дивитися через вікно на Нью-Йоркський пейзаж; бути невразливим; долоня; веранда у місячному сяйві; уперше за багато років.

2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.

terminated flourished seemed tangled possessed brooded befriended tasted related endured withstands

  1. So he … the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

  2. He was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of … emotion.

  3. There is only one more incident to be … here, and it happens seven years farther on.

  4. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had … .

  5. Looking at it from the perspective of ten years, the fact that Judy’s flare for him … just one month … of little importance.

  6. Nor did it matter that by his yielding he subjected himself to a deeper agony in the end and gave serious hurt to Irene Scheerer and to Irene’s parents, who had … him.

  7. Even the ultimate falsity of the grounds upon which Judy … the engagement that she did not want to “take him away” from Irene – Judy who had wanted nothing else – did not revolt him.

  8. “Awfully nice girl,” … Devlin meaninglessly, “I’m sort of sorry for her”.

  9. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that … all time.

  10. He was … with a wild notion of rushing out into the streets and taking a train to Detroit.

3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.

  1. “So you’re from the Middle West,” said the man Devlin with careless curiosity.

  2. Devlin looked at him helplessly.

  3. Dexter looked closely at Devlin, thinking wildly that there must be a reason for this, some insensitivity in the man or some private malice.

  4. He had thought that having nothing else to lose he was invulnerable at last.

  5. And her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the morning.

  6. “Awfully nice girl,” brooded Devlin meaninglessly, “I’m sort of sorry for her”.

  7. A dull impatience spread over him.

  8. A sort of dullness settled down upon Dexter.