to have a rest from detective stories. 3. I asked for a pair of shoes of a... kind, but the shop-girl said
that the rest of the shoes were not my size.
с) stretch or run:
1. A small stream ... along the road. 2. These steppes ... to the South for miles and miles. 3.
The path ... across the field for a mile and then was lost in the forest. 4. No matter how hard I looked
I saw only a vast plain... before me. 5. The ugly scar (шрам) ... right across the man's left cheek. 6.
For how many kilometers does this forest...?
d) comfortable or convenient
1. I like to sleep on a camp-bed, I find it very .... 2. I believe Friday the only ... day for our
meeting, we have only four lectures on that day. 3. Though the flat was rather .... warm, light and
cosy, it was not... for our work as it was rather small. 4. These shoes are very. . for wear in wet
weather as they have rubber soles.
e) join or unite:
1. The two streams ... at the foot of the mountain. 2. ... we stand, divided we fall. 3. One by
one the children ... in the game. 4. The partisans’ detachment... the regular army and the enemy lost
the battle against their ... forces. 5. All peace-loving people should ... in their straggle against a new
war. 6. Won't you... me in a walk?
ХIII. Paraphrase the following:
1. It is of no importance. 2. Rivers flow into the sea. 3. You can't rely on him. 4. Make
yourself at home 5. French is unlike English in having far more verbal inflexions. 6. He seemsto
be ill. 7. Connect these points with a line. 8. This street stretches east and west. 9. He refused to live
at the expense of his parents. 10. I disagree with you. 11. I'll drive the car into the garage. 12. Will
you come with us? 13. I met him by chance in London last week. 14. Listen to me, Tom! 15. This
tool is easy to use. 16. These are not the same people with the same name. 17. Why is Jane silent?
XIV. Translate these sentences into Russian. Write your own sentences with
the new words and phrases:
1. He lookedabout the room and caught sight of the case containing the jewels which had
been carelessly left open on the table. 2. The difference was curious between her intense
expectation of the previous day and her present indifference. 3. United we stand, divided we fall. 4.
My father reminded me that I was entirely dependent upon him. 5. The many men he ran across,
belonging to a different world, had filled him perhaps with admiration and envy. 6. I'm always doing
things on the spur of the moment — to my own inconvenience and other people's. 7. It made him