Words and word combinations to be memorized

propose (v) particular (a) mystery (n)

notorious (a) account (for) (v) twins (n)

bring out (v) discrepancy (n)

grief (n) remind (of) (v)

drown (v) heart-breaking (a)

to mean no harm

to speak with rapture

to be all the rage

to put one's whole mind

. something

to make a noise

on

to get a matter straight

to corne to life

to reveal a secret

to take pains

to take a look (at) [54]

EXERCISES

I. Explain and expand on the following:

1. Indeed, my powers seemed a bit under a cloud.

2. -I had the Unabridged, and I was ciphering around in the back end, hoping I might tree her among the pictures.

3. It has often been said, and by people who would not flatter and who could have no inducement to flatter, that I am quite remarkable in that way.

4. Will you let me ask you certain questions calculated to bring out the salient points of your public and private history?

5. This solemn, this awful mystery has cast a gloom over my whole life.

6. Well, I believe I have got material enough for the present, and I am very much obliged to you for the pains you have taken.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences from the text:

1. I was not feeling bright that morning.

2. . . . they always speak of it with raptur.

3. ... it is the custom, now, to interview any man who has become notorious.

4. It is all the rage now.

5. This is a great grief to me.

6. / will put my whole mind on it.

7. . . . we can never get this matter straight.

8. How do you account for that?

9. . . . you make yourself out to be one hundred and eighty.

10. Many a time it has seemed to me like a discrepancy.

11. ...I couldn't make up my mind.

12. I would give whole worlds to know.

13. ...I will tell you a secret now, which I never have revealed to any creature before.

III. Give corresponding colloquial variants for the following:

1. They could have no inducement to flatter... 2. This solemn, . . . mystery has cast a gloom over my whole life. 3. Then the young man reverently withdrew.

IV. Paraphrase the following sentences using word combinations from the text:

1. The young man worked for one of the evening newspapers.

2. I felt that my capacities were a bit dulled.

3. I could not make out his hand and had to apply for help.

4. This colour is very fashionable now.

5. The matter will hardly be cleared up.

6. It always takes one a long time to come to a decision.

7. Thank you for the trouble you have taken.[55]

8. I promise that I won't betray your confidence and won't let oat what you told me.

9. Although he worked perseveringly he could not decipher the manuscript.

10. In a few minutes she recovered consciousness.

11. His account of the event sounded most discouraging.

12. There was considerable contradiction between the two, accounts of the interview.

13. He expressed his delight at her singing.

14. You praise me much more than I deserve it.

V. Give definitions of the following words using an English-English dictionary:

inducement, discrepancy notorious, disheartening, salient cipher, bring out, account for

VI. Translate the following into Russian:

1. Hoping it's no harm... 2. Indeed, my powers seemed a bit un­der a cloud. 3. I had the Unabridged, and I was ciphering around in the back end, hoping I might tree her among the pictures. 4. It has often been said, and by people who would not flatter and who could have no inducement to flatter, that I am quite remarkable in that way. 5. I had not heard of it before. It must be very interesting. 6. Will you let me ask you certain questions calculated to bring out the sa­lient points of your public and private history? 7. If you were at his funeral, he must have been dead; and if he was dead, how could he care whether you made a noise or not? 8. Anyway I don't see how they could ever have been such a blundering lot as to go and bury the wrong child.

VII. Give English equivalents for the following:

стараться, прилагать усилия; принять peшение; выяснить;говорить с восторгом; быть модным;объяснять что-либо; раскрыть секрет; шуметь;напоминать кому-либо о чем-либо; льстить; пользующийся дурной славой; душераздирающий; приходить в себя; взглянуть.

Make up short dialogues around these words and word combina­tions.

VIII. Use one of the verbs of feeling and perception in the Contin­uous form.

Pattern your own sentences after this one: "I was not feeling bright that morning".

IX. Make up two-line dialogues patterned on those below.

Each dia­logue should begin with an elliptical question,

1. — Doing anything to-night?

— No, why?

2. — Finished your work?

— Almost.

3. — Hurt yourself?

— I'm afraid I have.

4. — Seen anything of Bob?

— Not much.

5. — Going anywhere to-morrow night? — To the theatre.

X. Fill in the missing parts of the dialogues (use elliptical questions). 1 -....?

1.- ...?

— To the post-office. 2. — ...?

— No, why?

3. -...?

— No, I'm not.

4. —...?

— Just a little tired.

5. ...?

— Making a birthday cake.

6. -...?

— Not I.

XI. Respond to the following questions according to the model.

Model: 1. — He reminds me of your brother.

— Reminds you of who? 2. — I suppose you don't mind my presence.

— Mind what?

1. Why make such a noise? 2. Hoping it's no harm, I've come with­out warning. 3. I don't think we can get this matter straight. 4. How do you account for her absence? 5. I suppose you never could have met him.

XII. Disagree with the suggested statements. Use the formulas of disagreement given in the models below. Models:

You knew he was dead.

I don't see that there is any mystery about it.

No, we didn't.

Yes, I do. Well, I do. But I do.

1. They have troubles enough without adding this. 2. The family can hear of it here. 3. You haven't taken any pains to do it. 4. I have got material enough for the present. [57]

XIII. Make the following sentences emphatic by using the verb "to do".

Model: She sings very well.

She does sing very well.

1. You notice a thing very quickly. 2. She looked very intelligent. 3. She spoke of the book with rapture. 4. It seems curious that they should be friends. 5. He asked you again and again to make less noise.

XIV. Refer the following statements to the past.

Model: It must be very interesting.

It must have been very interesting.

1. You must be tired after a day's work. 2. She must be feeling very awkward here. 3. He must be very pleasant company. 4. He must have a very bad memory to forget such essential things. 5. It must be all the rage now. 6. He must be a bit under a cloud.

XV. Respond to the following statements. Use "must + perfect in­finitive" to express possibility referring to the past.

Model: We didn't know how to account for his extraordinary

behaviour. He must've been very nervous.

1. Everyone took him to be no more than thirty-five. 2. He was a great deal interested in the story. 3. He took great pains to interest his guest. 4. The young man represented one of the newspapers. 5. He looked very nervous.

XVI. Paraphrase the sentences given below so as to use "could+perfect infinitive" to express doubt, incredulity.

1. It is next to impossible that they ever met.

2. I refuse to believe that you really took any pains to complete the work.

3. Is it possible that such a thing was suggested?

4. Is it at all possible that he spoke of it with rapture?

5. Is it impossible that he spoke of it with rapture?

6. Is it possible that they took him to be thirty?

XVII. Compose five tail questions as in the model.

Model: You couldn't have forgotten it, could you?

XVIII. Study the following sentence from the text. Explain the use of tense forms.

Make your own sentences using the Past Per­fect Continuous Tense.

However, I went to the bookcase, and when I had been looking six or seven minutes I found I was obliged to refer to the young man.

XIX. Complete the following sentences so as to use the Past Perfect Continuous Tense. [58]

1. I expected... 2. It seemed... 3. He said... 4. He wanted to see... 5. What made you think...

XX. Join the sentences given below so as to use the Subjective In­finitive Construction. Give as many variants as it is logically possible.

It happened It turned out It appeared It seemed

They took great pains, to do it.

He was quite notorious.

The story brings out the main facts of his life.

He has already made up his rnind.

XXI. Pick out words from the text that have negative prefixes.

XXII. Using prefixes make the following words negative:

happy, possible, legal, loyal, pleasant, patient, obedient, respon­sible

Use each of the words you make in a sentence.

XXIII. Translate into English:

(A) 1. Они долго не могли принять никакого решения. 2. Едва ли им удастся выяснить это. 3. Он пользуется дурной славой. 4. Он предложил своему собеседнику стул. 5. Неизвестно, чем объясняется ее отсутствие. 6. Он обещал отнестись к делу очень серьезно. 7. Они приложили большие усилия, чтобы сгладить неприятное впечатле­ние. 8. Они с восторгом говорили о музыкальной одаренности маль­чика. 9. Взгляни на этот рисунок. 10. В том, что он говорил, было серьезное противоречие. 11. Как только ей сделали укол, она очну­лась.

(B) 1. Вы, должно быть, давно знакомы. 2. Неужели вы давно знаете друг друга? 3. Не может быть, чтобы вы давно знали друг друга. 4. Неужели он действительно интересный собеседник? 5. Он, наверно, очень приятный человек.

6. — Торопишься куда-нибудь?

— Да, на лекцию.

— Но ведь лекция начинается только в 2 часа?

— В два? Нет, ты ошибаешься. Ровно в 1 час 30 минут.

XXIV. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs where nec­essary:

(a) 1. Don't put your nose—other people's affairs. It is none—your business. 2. I really do not know how to account-her absence. 3. She quietly thanked him—his kindness and left the room. 4. The portrait— the newspaper reminded me—one—the friends—my childhood. 5. The tragedy cast a shadow—his early life. 6. I believe we have had quite enough—it—the present. 7. She spoke—the performance—rapture. 8. I could not find the manuscript—my papers. 9. The work consist­ed—reading and translation.

(b) When Samuel was twelve years old, his father died, and the [59]boy was apprenticed—local printers, and then worked as compositor and pressman—his older brother Orion, who managed a not complete­ly successful newspaper—Hannibal. There was room—its pages— humorous features which young Samuel composed and—miscellaneous items which he collected—"Our Assistant's Column".

— the time he was seventeen he was able to think—himself as something more than a local writer.—May 1852 "The Dandy Frighten­ing the Squatter" appeared—the "Carpet-Bag", a sportsman's maga­zine—Boston. It anticipates much—the later manner—Mark Twain and is laid —Hannibal—the Mississippi River.

— eighteen he left little Hannibal—St. Louis, the largest town— Missouri, where he saved his wages carefully until ,he could strike out—the limits—his western state. He traveled first,—steamboat and rail,—Chicago and Buffalo,—New York. (From "Mark Twain" by L. Leary)

XXV. Fill in the blanks with the definite or indefinite article where required:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, on— Missouri frontier, in stragglirig log village called Florida, to which his parents had come from their former home among—hills of—Ten­nessee. His father was—local magistrate and —small merchant, orig­inally from—Virginia, who had studied—law in Kentucky and there met and married—auburn-haired Jane Lampton, descended from— settlers who had come across—mountains. One among—thousands of Americans who in—early decades of—nineteenth century moved westward to seek—opportunities in—newly opened lands, John Mar­shall Clemens did not prosper in—hamlet in which his third son was born, and so, when Samuel was four years old, moved to—Hannibal,— larger town with—population of almost five hundred, оn—banks of—Mississippi River. (From "Mark Twain" by L. Leary. Abridged.)

XXVI. Retell the story (a) as if you were the newspaper reporter; (b) in your own words.

XXVII. Enact the scene described in the story.

XXVIII. Express your opinion of M. Twain as a humorist in writing. [60]

Lesson 5

THE LIGHT THAT FAILED