VIII. Answer about the article

1. Who is the author of the article?
2. Where is she from?
3. What does she do in Russia?
4. Who attends her classes?
5. How many Americans work in the center?
6. What is Marilyn’s schedule of classes?
7. What was the reaction of the other Americans to her schedule?
8. What did the students have to do to receive the certificate of completion?
9. What did Marilyn promise to do in case of infractions?
10. Did all of the students follow the protocol?
11. What did Marilyn say to those who were late?
12. What did a physician say about Marilyn?
13. What certificates did her students receive?
14. What mantra does she mention?
15. Do you agree with those words? Why?
16. What did she learn about some universities in Russia?
17. What do foreign businesses relate about Russians employees?
18. What is essential if a person genuinely desires to mature?
19. What does Marilyn say about consistent tardiness?

IX. Insert prepositions

1. Marilyn Murray is an educator … more than 2,000 people attending her classes … the past 10 years.

2. I would like the class to please start … 9 a.m. … a 20-minute tea break.

3. They are not used … that type of sched­ule.

4. You can’t expect them to be … time.

5. I think Russians are perfectly capable … be­ing responsible and … time.

6. I listed the requirements … their all-impor­tant “certificate of completion.”

7. Most thought I probably wasn’t serious … withholding a certifi­cate because … these infractions.

8. I knew a certificate of completion was very important … students … the former Soviet Union.

9. Plus, present salary raises of­ten depended … this certificate.

10. But there also were those who came … late, who arrived … their homework, who talked and texted … their cell phones, who sat … the back row talking back and forth … themselves.

11. I said it was disrespectful … the other students and… the teacher.

12. They could not attend the next advanced class … they repeated the present one.

13. A Moscow State University of Psychology and Education professor who missed an afternoon class … an important meeting at the university also did not receive a certificate … completion.

14. But in later years So­viet citizens became less committed … advancing the cause of the state.

15. There are students who are tardy … classes.

16. Now I have little need to worry … students being … time.

17. Unfortunately, today in Russia, being respect­ful … others is not a primary value … multitudes of people.

18. Even high-level political leaders are exceptionally late … meetings

19. Consistent tardi­ness is not only rude, but a passive-aggressive decla­ration … power and control.

20. It will be interesting to see Russia’s transforma­tion … the coming years.