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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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