General Comprehension
1. Who said it?
1) “She’s so awkward, her gestures are so meaningless”.
2) “Unfortunately for me you’ve taken away my belief in everything”.
3) “You don’t exist, you’re only the innumerable parts you’ve played”.
4) “She wants her freedom. She says an engagement would interfere with her career”.
5) “You simply wiped the floor with her. She didn’t even look pretty in the second act”.
6) “I shall never in all my life have another moment like this. I’m not going to share it with anyone”.
2. Who did it?
1) Who insisted on keeping Avice in the cast?
2) Who was once greatly impressed by an episode in the wings?
3) Who advised Julia to leave Roger alone?
4) Who invited Julia to have tea?
5) Who considered Julia to be jealous?
6) Who invited Julia to have supper after the performance?
Mark the following statements as true (T), false (F), not stated (NS). Correct the false statements.
1) Avice Chrichton was madly in love with Michael. She had fallen for his fatal beauty.
2) As Julia saw Tom on the platform she hugged him with affection and started asking him questions about his stay in Vienna.
3) The conversation with Roger was so intolerable that Julia felt relieved when she heard Michael’s car drive up to the house.
4) At Taplow Roger made use of Tom in order to learn something he wanted to know. He considered Tom to be very intellectual.
5) Charles believed that Roger might find what he was looking for, if not in God, then in art.
6) Julia, as usual, was intolerably nervous before the first night.
7) Everything in Tom’s room was so familiar to Julia, everything meant so much to her. It had been the scene of so many emotions. So Julia could hardly keep from crying.
8) Michael rehearsed Avice’s big scene in the second act so as to give it all to the girl. But Julia changed the scene completely.
4. Answer the questions:
1) How well did the parts in the new play suit Julia and Avice?
2) What helped Avice hold the part?
3) How did Julia look on the day she met Roger?
4) What subject was she going to discuss with him?
5) Why did Julia have a feeling of acute discomfort? Why was she bitterly hurt?
6) What were Roger’s plans for the future? What did he seek in life?
7) What episode had produced a great impression on Roger?
8) Did Julia love Roger? Did Roger love Julia?
9) What methods did Michael use to rehearse Avice? What was the result?
10) What was Charles’s reaction to Julia’s version of her conversation with Roger?
11) Why was Julia disappointed after it?
12) How did Julia feel on the day of the first night?
13) What change did Tom notice in Julia?
14) What tricks did Julia play on Avice?
15) Why did she play these tricks from Michael’s point of view?
16) Did Julia win a victory over Tom?
17) Where did Julia go after the performance? Why?
18) Why had Julia acted so badly in spring?
Working with the Vocabulary
Read Part VII, find the following words and word combinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents.
Chapter 26
to settle a score
to be under the delusion that
Chapter 27
To feel at home with smb
To flash across smb’s mind
To be ignorant about smth
To get down to brass tacks
To bring down the house
Faked
Chapter 28
to have a knack of doing smth
to have half a mind to do smth
to dote on smb
Chapter 29
to deliver a speech
to feel like a million dollars
to put a spoke in smb’s wheel
to savour
Remember the contexts in which Word List VII items are used, say who or what they referred to.
3. Find the English equivalents for these:
Chapter 26
творить, совершать чудеса
Chapter 27
привязанность, любовь
быть авторитетом для кого-либо, оказывать влияние
Chapter 28
ускользать из памяти, забыть
Chapter 29
подчеркнуть цвет
повернуться спиной к кому-либо
служебный вход в театр
4. Explain what it means:
Chapter 26
a revival
to let bygones be bygones
Chapter 27
the Bar
a barrister
in the wings
fifty odd years
Chapter 28
you could have knocked me down with a feather
(a woman) of hard on fifty
Chapter 29
denouement
lines
5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:
A.
1) Michael was afraid that Roger would go … a broker’s office or even … the stage. (Ch.27)
2) The suspicion flashed … Julia’s mind that Roger had guided the conversation … that direction so that it should be diverted … him and his affairs. (Ch. 27)
3) …the other hand, if you fancy … the Foreign Office you should take … modern languages. (Ch.27)
4) She was surprised … his going back … that subject so suddenly, but she returned … it … a smile. (Ch.28)
5) …she did not go … the Park, but sauntered … the neighbouring squares, deserted … that time of year, idly looking … the houses, and thought how much she preferred her own … any of them. (Ch. 28)
6) The corridor was packed now … people who wanted to get … least a glimpse … her. (Ch. 29)
| from, at (4), to (3), into (2), on (2), up, across, with (2), round, of, in |
B.
1) The Smiths dote … their younger child, and the older one’s naturally very envious. – You could have knocked me … with a feather. I thought them to be quite impartial.
2) She has a knack … making everyone feel … home. No wonder he has an influence even … Professor Lee.
3) Drivers sometimes pretend that they are ignorant … speed limits. They also say that it has slipped … their memory.
4) I was still … the naïve delusion that everyone was good at heart.
5) She sipped her wine savouring …every drop. A was sure she felt like a million dollars.
6) He came back after five years to settle some old scores. He was sure nobody could put a spoke … his wheel.
| on, down, at, with, under, in, about, of |
