matter n, arrival, arrive, pass v (2), change v (2), cover v, move v (2), truth, whole, hard, awful, exact, dull, sure, true, fast, strange
1. The traffic lights from green to red and all cars stop. 2. Let's go out on the platform. The train will be any minute now. 3. The light is too strong, it's bad for the eyes, the lamp with something. 4. That was an thing to do! Go and say you're sorry. 5. There's no such thing as easy work. All work is . 6. She wrote to a friend asking him to meet her daughter on her in Moscow, giving him the time, date and place. 7. Some people say that Dickens is too for the modern reader, but nothing can be farther from the . 8. I wonder what's the with John. He's so quiet these days. 9. After a night of heavy rain the roads were very slippery. I along in my car very slowly, but I was afraid the time. 10. Did he say he was coming at four? Are you you heard him right? 11. Several years before the magazine published the story of the poet's life. 12. The other day my neighbour came to me with a story. It was something about noises he heard at night. I didn't know what to think. 13. The boy was learning but there was still a lot to learn. 14. She telephoned to say that as she was to another part of the town, she would be also her place of work. 15. A week , then another, and still there was no news of the expedition.
Ex 18 Replace the Russian words and phrases by suitable English equivalents in the correct form. Retell the passage.
In summer I () to Scarboro. When I () there it was late afternoon. After dinner I put on my raincoat and went out for a walk. It was () day, the sky ( ) with clouds, and it was raining a little. The wind was very strong and it was difficult to walk, but I wanted some air. ( , ) I () slowly along the () () street I saw ( ). first ( ) me, but then he stopped.
"Is that you, old man?" he (). "It's () to see you! I was never so glad to see you in my () life!"
I () my head. It was Jones.
"Why, what are you doing here? What's the ()?" I said. "And aren't you cold?" Jones ( ) flannel trousers and a thin shirt. "Why don't you go home?"
"I cannot," he answered. "I forgot the name of the hotel where my wife and I (). Take me with you and give me something to eat."
"Haven't you any money?" I asked.
"( ) penny. We () here from York, my wife and I, at () eleven. We () our things at the station and went to a hotel. I () my clothes and ( ). The sun was shining brightly and there was nothing in the ( ) about rain. But I forgot to take the address."
"Can you () the street or the house?"
"No," he said sadly.
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"Well, I'm () that we'll () where you live soon ()," I said. I took him to my hotel and ( ). Here we () the situation. We then () telephoning all the hotels in Scarboro. We did it so well that next afternoon Jones found both his hotel and his wife.
(After "An Absent-Minded Man" by Jerome K. Jerome)
Ex 19 Complete the questions and answers.
ON WEATHER
A: What is the weather like in England?
: changes in our country more often than in other countries, that's why we say: "Other countries have "
A: Are all the days alike in autumn?
B: Oh, no, and the next day
A: Look! The sky is covered with heavy dark and it's going to
B: It may, but you can never be sure . After a whole day of
A: it often rain in ?
B: is a rainy month. You were quite right, it is already. The people in the street are opening and the pavements are wet with But don't think it will last
A: Do Englishmen always raincoats and umbrellas in autumn?
B: As a rule, they do.
A: And what in winter?
B: Wintercoats, if
A: I see that for conversation.
B: It is. We never get tired of it.
A: What do you say to start a conversation?
B:
Ex 20 Test translation.
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