to drive smb. … hysterics to resign … smth.
to see smb. … to be … smb’s disposal
to be close … tears to do smth. … smb’s way
to set eyes … smb. to be more beautiful … the flesh
to dote … smb. to be stuck …
3. Give the synonyms to the words listed below.
vellicating – ; disconsolate – ;
bland – ; exhausted – ;
foible – ; anxious – ;
to torment – ; to arrest – ;
old-fashioned – ; flabby – ;
resemblance – ; deliberate – .
occasionally – ;
4. Find the English equivalents of the following expressions in the text.
патологический страх;
начало представления;
дёргающийся мускул;
щегольски одетый пожилой человек;
изумительное сходство;
печальные пассажиры;
заводить мотор;
узкие штаны;
странный запах;
высокие напольные часы.
5. Complete the following sentences with the words from the box:
note of authority hunting frantically replaced
bustling about to be irritated consent
pausing halfway nightmare irrepressible foible
wedged down blood likeness cancelled
1. Mr. Foster may possibly have had a right ______ by this foolishness of his wife’s.
2. Assuming that the husband was guilty, what made his attitude doubly unreasonable was the fact that, with the exception of this one small ______ , Mrs. Foster was and always had been a good and loving wife.
3. On this particular morning in January, the house had come alive and there was a great deal of ______.
4. She doted on her grandchildren, and each time a new picture arrived she would carry it away and sit with it for a long time, staring at it lovingly and searching the small faces for a signs of that old satisfying ______ that meant so much.
5. She knew that although he was no longer active in his many enterprises, he would never ______ to leave New York and live in Paris.
6. Her husband came after her, but he walked down the steps of the house slowly, ______ to observe the sky.
7. I shouldn’t be surprised if the flight’s ______ already.
8. The rest of the day was a sort of ______for her.
9. “A little box!” Mrs. Foster cried. “I never saw any little box!” She began ______ in the back of the car.
10. Mrs. Foster suddenly spotted a corner of something in the crack of the seat on the side where her husband had been sitting.
11. The little mouth, usually so flabby, was now tight and thin, the eyes were bright, and the voice, when she spoke, carried a new ______.
12. She ______ the receiver and sat there at her husband’s desk waiting for the man who would be coming soon to repair the lift.
Reading Comprehension:
1. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances:
1. “Dear God, I’m going to miss it. I know, I know, I know I’m going to miss it.”
2. “I’ll be with you in a moment. I’m just going to wash my hands.”
3. “I arranged everything with the servants. They’re all going off today.”
4. “Stop fussing. It doesn’t matter anyway. It’s bound to be cancelled now. They never fly in this sort of weather.”
5. “We’re stuck. I knew it.”
6. “We made it. This is the airport.”
7. “I’ll just get myself a room somewhere for the night. And don’t you bother yourself about it at all.”
8. “Well, how was Paris?”
9. “The club is downtown. It isn’t on the way to the airport.”
10. “I’m just going to get a few cigars. I’ll be right with you.”
11. “Just a moment! Hold it a moment, chauffeur, will you?”
12. “Here it is! No – I’ll go myself. It’ll be quicker. I know where he’ll be!”
13. “ It’s too late. I can’t wait for him, I simply can’t. I’ll miss the plane. Hurry now, driver, hurry! To the airport!”
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