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Exercise 4
Find in the text sentences with the following expressions and read them aloud. Translate them into
Russian and let your classmates translate them back into English without a textbook.
to tower over somebody,
with death in one's heart,
to find an occupation,
to lose one's temper,
to relax into a smile,
to be ready to start in a month,
to control one's mirth,
to make up one's mind,
to withdraw one's offer,
to set eyes on somebody,
to be by no means a beauty,
to come as a surprise,
to be on tenterhooks,
no harm to be done,
to get to do with something,
to be less likely.
Exercise 5
Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the text.
1.
Passion is all very well, but...
2.
I had gone on board early in the morning and soon discov ered that...
3.
The Governor's wife was a large woman, tall and ...
4.
I saw that the little French Governor had been holding ...
5.
'You see, ours was a marriage ...'
6.
In that case I am afraid I must withdraw ...
7.
It is too long a story to tell you, but ...
8.
I walked to the offices of Figaro ...
9.
You will never believe it but ...
10. I was glad to have someone to whom I could ...
11. Her morals are without reproach, she is of...
12. One can never tell with women. There is something about
marriage ...
13. If you do not like the look of her...
14. I was so taken aback that...
15. I came to ask you
16. I will not deny ...
17. The fact is that in a marriage
Exercise 6
Express the same idea using different wording and grammar.
1.
Ours was a marriage of convenience pure and simple.
2.
But sometimes love comes after marriage and not before, and then it is better. It lasts longer.
3.
I was strong and active and I was very anxious to find an occupation.
4.
I told him that would be easy for an old bachelor.
5.
I expostulated. I argued. Nothing would serve.
6.
I had four thousand and three hundred and seventy-two re plies. It was an avalanche.
7.
I gave it up as a bad job.
8.
What is making you look so glum?
9.
What inducement would there be for her to give up her ac customed life to accompany in exile a
man of forty-nine
who is by no means a beauty?
10. There would be no harm in asking her.
11. If you do not like the look of her you take your leave and no harm is done.
12. Within an hour I received her reply to the effect that she would be pleased to receive me at four
o'clock in the afternoon.
13. I was so taken aback that I nearly dropped the box of chocolates.