II. Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
i. The trouble... the book is that it's boring me... death. 2. It will take me... least a month to catch......the group. 3. What did you buy... the money you got... your father? 4. I need an alarm clock to wake me up... time. 5. I've been writing the letter... and......two days, now I've finished it... last. 6. I was perfectly sure to be put......the desk next... the girt whom I didn't like to sit.... 7. His visit was a surprise... me, I didn't know he was... town. 8. When I come... some English words which I don't know I always look them......the dictionary. 9. In his speech he pointed... all the drawbacks... our work. 10. The drills on the English sounds bore me... times, but I know that they are very useful. 11. He helped me a lot... my mathematics and I'm much obliged... him... it.
XIII. Revise Essential Vocabulary (I) and translate the following:
1. , . 2. . 3. . 4. , 50 . ? 5. , . 6. . 7. , , , , . 8. , , , 9. , , . 10. , , , . 11. , , . 12, . 13. , . 14. , , . 15. - ? 16. , , , . 17. . 18. . 19. ? ; . 20. - . , . 21. , .
XIV. Compose 20 sentences about the text, using modal verbs must, can, may, ought, might with the perfect infinitive:
Models: a) Judy's guardian must have (never) read her letters ( , () ).
b) Judy could have bought some other things with her guardian's money ( ...).
c) Judy's guardian might have seen Judy somewhere (, , ...).
d) Don't you think that Judy's guardian ought to have answered her letter ( ).
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XV. a) Translate the text into Russian:
Dear Daddy Long-Legs,
You never answer any questions, you never show the slightest interest in anything I do. I haven't a doubt that you throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading them. Hereafter I shall write only about work.
My re-examinations in Latin and Geometry came last week. I passed them both and am now a Sophomore.
I came up a fortnight ago, sorry to leave the farm, but glad to see the campus again. It is pleasant to come back to something familiar, I am beginning to feel at home in college.
I am beginning chemistry, a most unusual study. I've never seen anything like it before. I am also taking logic. Also history of the whole world. Also plays of William Shakespeare. Also French.
I should rather have elected Economics than French, but I didn't dare, because I was afraid that unless I re-elected French, the Professor would not let me pass as it was. I just managed to squeeze through the June examinations. But I will say that my high-school preparation was not very good.
And here is news for you. I have begun to be an author. A poem entitled "From my Tower" appears in the February "Monthly" on the first page, which is a very great honour for a Freshman. My English instructor stopped me on my way out. of college last night, and said it was a charming piece of work except for the sixth line, which had too many feet.
But sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius.
Yours truly, Judy
(From "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster)
b) Comment on the letter above. Point out in what it differs from Judy's earlier letters (see the text). Explain the last line of this letter. Is Judy quite serious here?
