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L.: What do you mean?
C.: Simply that I belong to the same profession as you do.
L.: Oh, well! Then there was an oversight. My secretary didn't make a note of that fact. I'm very sorry
about the mistake.
C.: Oh, that's all right. It could happen to anyone.
L.: So you're a member of my profession, eh? Well, in that case, I'll give you a discount of seventy-five
percent.
C.: That's better! Now that bill is for a reasonable sum, I'll pay it right away. Here's the money.
L.: Thank you very much. I hope that you'll forgive this mistake.
C.: Naturally.
After taking the money, the lawyer sees his client to the door with great respect and
courtesy, and says:
L.: But tell me, friend, where is your office?
C.: Oh, I don't have an office.
L.: But you just told me that you had the same profession as I do.
C.: Yes, I did. I'm a thief too!
17.8.2. Can you complete each sentence in the first list with the appropriate phrase from the second?
1. The telephone operator
A. lack of hard work
put through
B. by their younger brothers
2. I have out by
or sisters
3. She was dreadfully put
C. his shoulder, playing
out
Rugby
4. If it rains we shall
D. enough money for a win-
have to put off
ter holiday
5. How can you put up
E. your address before I
with
forget it
6. George has put out
F. the barbecue in the gar-
7. I must put down
den tonight
8. We would be happy to
G. the noise and fumes of
put you up
town life
9. We put his failure
H. I shall stop smoking
down to
I. by his unkind remarks
10. If cigarettes are put up
J. if you would like to stay
11. Older children are
the night
often put upon
K. a warm jumper and hea-
12. When he began to
vy coat
shiver he decided to
L. the call from London
put on
UNIT 18
Фонетика: sounds [b], [p]
Словообразование: сложные существительные типа witness-box
Грамматика: придаточные подлежащие, придаточные сказуемые
Текст: «Pete and Nell go to the pictures» (cont.)
18.1. Sound right
18.1.1. Listen, look, say:
beauty
ebb
sobbed
sublet
breath
boom
cab
obtain
sublime
bring
box
rib
rub down
sublibrarian
bride
boast
sob
club Dan
Bob likes
broom
ball
rub
rob Peter
Hob looks
brown
best
lab
globe trotter
rub Lester
bright
18.1.2. Listen, look, say:
1. A bad job.
2. A bad blunder.
3. The biter's bit.