TASK 4. Match the adjectives given below with the nouns they go together in the book.

TASK 2. Explain and comment on the following sentences taken from the book. If possible replace the underlined parts of the sentence by the synonymous expressions. Remember that in some cases you have to refer to the original as most of the ideas can be understood only in broader context.

1. “He told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might al least be spared the sordid promiscuity of the ward.” (p. 132)

2. “I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.” (p. 135)

3. “His grab of woe suggested that he had lost in one catastrophe every relation he had in the world, even to cousin by marriage twice removed.” (p. 137)

4. “But I kept my own counsel.” (p. 139)

5. “They pinched and saved so that I should have enough to live on,…” (p. 139)

6. “He told me a singular story.” (p. 140)

7. “Her methodicalness made her suicide more deliberate.” (p.141)

8. “It was as though I were suddenly transported into a world in which the values were changed. I stood by, at a loss, like a stranger in a land where the reactions of a man to familiar things are all different from those he has known.” (p.143)

9. “He was like a mystic seeking to describe the ineffable.” (p. 144)

10. “He said he had other fish to fry.” (p. 145)

11. “Nodding, for it would be childish to cut him, I walked on quickly…” (p. 145)

12. “It was characteristic of him to show geniality with anyone who showed a disinclination to meet him…”(p. 146)

13. “I reflected that French paper was bad, and that, foiled of my purpose, I need not burden myself with a purchase I did not need.” (p. 146)

14. “Damn it all’, I said more violently because I had an inkling my motive was none too credible, ‘I don’t want to know you.’ (p. 147)

15. “I suppose you are hard up,’ I remarked insolently. (p. 147)

16. “You’ll never really dislike me so long as I give you the opportunity to get off a good thing now and then.’ (p. 147)

17. ‘… who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.’ (p. 147)

18. ‘He recognizes in himself an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is not nearly so strong as his curiosity in their reasons.’ (p. 148)

19. ‘The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.’ (p.148)

20. ‘I applied the scalpel boldly.’ (p.148)

21. ‘They turned her out into the street neck and crop.’(p. 150)

22. ‘His life was strangely divorced from material things, and it was as though his body at times wreaked a fearful revenge on his spirit.’ (up to the end of the passage) (p.151)

23. ‘With infinite care she prepared to snare and bind me.’ (p. 152)

24. ‘I was sore, but not with him so much as with myself.’ (p. 153)

25. ‘But I would not let him see that I was put out. (p. 154)

26. ‘Sooner or later the human being in you will yearn for the common bonds of humanity.’ (p. 154)

27. ‘… and I had a strange sensation that it was only an envelope, and I was in the presence of a disembodied spirit.” (p. 154)

TASK 3. Match the words that were used by the author in the book with their equivalents.

Part 1

1. to gibber a) expression of sympathy

2. a row b) funeral carriage

3. brusque [bru:sk] c) sorrow

4. slumber d) cruelly

5. serene e) chattiness

6. to decline f) to refuse

7. volubility g) peaceful

8. condolence h) to chatter

9. ruthlessly i) sleep

10. hearse [h rs] j) a quarrel

11. woe k) rough

Part 2

12. incongruous l) disgust

13. rejoinder m) self-rejection

14. refuge n) coldly

15. resiliency [ri’zili nsi] o) hateful

16. renunciation p) to scorn

17. incoherent q) reply

18. repulsion r) out of place

19. frigidly s) safe haven

20. detestable t) revival

21. to despise u) unintelligible

Part 3

22. insolently a) scoundrel

23. abhorrence b) pleasure

24. taciturnity c) shrewd

25. gusto d) repulsion

26. rogue e) arrogantly

27. derisively f) good sense

28. discerning g) silence

29. tranquillity h) suspicion

30. prudence i) empty

31. inane j) mockingly

32. inkling k) calmness

TASK 4. Match the adjectives given below with the nouns they go together in the book.

Part 1

1. jaded

2. sun-bathed

3. vain

4. anxious

5. attempted

6. acute

7. broken

8. instinctive

9. a tremulous

a) desire

b) suicides

c) delight in life

d) smile

e) spirit

f) lamentations

g) streets

h) nerves

i) relatives

Part 2

10. eternal

11. merciful

12. round

13. lamentable

14. loathsome

15. hateful

16. cold curiosity

17. callous

j) beast

k) truth

l) curiosity

m) selfishness

n) stars

o) forgetfulness

p) sum of money

q) business

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