Match the words in bold with the definition below

1. Michael would look throughthe peephole of the restaurant’s back door and watch the FBI agents pick up his garbage for the analysis.

2. Most juries started out by being prejudiced against Jennifer.

3. Haven’t you ever wished for a son to carry on your name?

4. When the verdict came in, Roger Davis strode up to Jennifer, his face flushed with anger.

5. Adam and Jennifer went to places where they were not apt to run into friends.

6. Adam was formally asked to run for the United States Senate.

7. Ken Bailey and three assistants could turn up nothing against Curtis Randal Ш

8. Herbert Hawthorne stepped in front of her way. “You are butting in where you are not wanted.’

9. Cynthia buzzed on the intercom. ”There is a man on line three.” “Put him through,” Jennifer said.

10. “I can’t give you my name,” he whispered. “They’ll come after me, too. You just check it out. Helen Cooper. Long Island.”

a. meet smb by chance

b. force oneself into the conversation

c. take the first steps

d. make sure that smth is actually true, correct or acceptable

e. take hold of and lift

f. compete for smth as a candidate

g. become involved in a private conversation that does not concern you

h. study, examine

i. find smth by thoroughly searching for it

j. connect smb to smb else on the telephone

k. be received

l. continue

m. walk with long steps

Put in the correct prepositions

1. She thought … him when she was … him, and she thought … him when she was away …him. (p.157)

2. He would leave notes … Jennifer … the apartment. (p.159)

3. Jennifer’s chief interest was … criminal law, … Ken’s urging she began to accept a variety … other cases. (p.160)

4. There was a tendency to make an association … her and her client. (p.164)

5. Jennifer hoped to play … the sympathy … the jury … dramatizing the plight … a young woman who had been betrayed… a wealthy playboy. (p.171)

6. There was an instinctive reaction … sympathy … the jury. (p.172)

7. Jennifer’s voice was weighted … sarcasm. (p.174)

8. They're formally asking you to run … the United States Senate.

9. She remembered she had thrown … the notes she had made.

10. They had found three psychiatrists who had testified … Helen Cooper's incompetence and the court had committed her to the asylum.

11. He had made arrangements … her to pay a visit to Mrs. Cooper.

12. Herbert married Dorothy … her money and found … that the estate was entirely in my hands. He didn’t like that.

13. According to the doctors, I’m suffering … schizophrenia and paranoia.

14. You can influence … a lot of doctors for that kind of money.

15. Jennifer had laid … all the facts … her disposal.

16. She leaned forward, took Jennifer's hands … hers and dropped her voice … a whisper.

Discussion

Agree or disagree to the statements. Give your arguments for or against them

1. Lovers live in a special world where every sense is heightened, and the joy they feel with each other is worth any price they can have to pay later,

2. The word justice was honored mostly in the breach. In the courtroom, neither the prosecuting attorney nor the defense attorney sought justice: The name of the game was to win.

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