I.Translate into Russian

1. “Aunt May”, Dinny murmured, “was saying: why not cure unemployment by a National Slum Clearance effort and kill the two birds with one stone?” (J. Galsworthy)

2. “Where are you off to, dear?” asked Nan from the kitchen. “To the library”, said Felicity at random, and leaving the house she ran along towards the main road. (I. Murdoch)

3. Look at the chaps in politics and business, whose whole lives were passed in skating on thin ice, and getting knighted for it. They never turned a hair. And look at himself, for the forty years on thin ice, and suffering confoundedly. (J. Galsworthy)

4. “Perhaps that’ll teach you not to be cocksure another time, my young friend”, said Ramsay as he took the note. (W.S.Maugham)

5. She visited the churches and wandered at random in old streets. (W. S. Maugham)

6. Poirot’s self-possession was marvelous. He didn’t turn a hair. But I saw his eyes searching in the shadows. (G. Gordon)

7. She waited to let the words sink in, but for all the change there was in Jan’s expression, she might have been talking to herself. (D. Cusack)

8. Why didn’t you get in touch with me sooner? (G, Gordon)

9. … a letter from Hugo was forwarded to me in which he inquired what had happened to me and asked me to get in touch with him. (I. Murdoch)

10. Last week when the company wanted the men to come back you talked them out of it. (M. Gold)

11. “The man I’m thinking of only began painting five years ago”.-“That’s it. He’s a great artist”. (W. S. Maugham)

12. “You couldn’t have TB”, - he broke off.- “That’s just it- I have.(D. Cusack)

13. I felt in myself, too, the desire to get the whole thing out of my mind. (W. S. Maugham)

14. She … tried to tell him how deeply she felt for his unhappiness. (A. Huxley)

15. I knew all along that you were keeping something dark. (A.Christie)

16. I’ve been trying to get in touch with you all afternoon. (A.Cronin)

17. They were out of touch with the great world of affairs here. (Gr.Greene)

18. You believe but you don’t know, eh? Is that it? (A. Christie)

II. Paraphrase the following sentences using the idioms studied

1. As far as I know, he had never been so selfconfident.

2. He tried to gain two objects by one exertion; by talking shop with the host and by making love to his pretty daughter.

3. He was hurt by his friend’s remark but showed no signs of any feeling.

4. The explorer chose ten men without deliberate selection to accompany him.

5. She showed no sign of any feeling when she saw that they looked at her with contempt.

6. We can visit Aunt Maria and do the sights of Moscow on the same trip, thus accomplishing two objects in one action.

7. Jan strained her ears to listen, but they had obviously gone along to the office. She was irritated. It was silly of Doreen- always trying to keep things from her.

8. She has had a most unpleasant experience and I feel pity for her.

9. Our argument was so heated that I could not dismiss it from my mind for a long time.

10. I don’t consider her a real friend for she kept many things from me.

11. “Do you mean to say that a student must do a lot of outside reading if he wants to master a language?”- “That’s exactly what I mean”.

12. He wasn’t going to keep any more secrets; he was going to finish once and for all with everything.