Практический курс английского языка 2 курс (Аракин) - страница 18

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