2. Passionate, ardent, fervent, or impassioned?

KEY

1.1 think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent solemn passion is conceived in my heart.

2. You have never loved me as I love you — never — never! Yours is not a ardent heart — your heart does not burn in a flame!

3. When to defend his affection tooth or nail, to persist with headlong бурный, безудержный force in fervent attentions to her, was all he thought of, he was condemned ipso [ou] facto [ou] в силу самого факта as a professor of the accepted school of morals.

4. His long lashes, dark brows, and curly black hair and beard against the white pillow, completed the physiognomy [`fizi'onemi] of one whom Arabella, as a woman of rank буйный passions, still felt it worth while to recapture, highly important to recapture as a woman straitened both in means and in reputation. Her fervent gaze seemed to affect him; his quick breathing suspended, and he opened his eyes.

5. As a boy he had a fervent private religion.

6. Both children were ardent concert-goers.

7. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the fervent emotions it excited?

8. You should try to be useful and pleasant, then perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, Missis will send you away, I am sure.

9. He would not conceal from her that passionate love had little to do with his communication.

3. Complete these sentences using suitable words and expressions from the text:

KEY

1. A successful marriage is the final realization of a romantic attraction.

2. A successful marriage contributes freely and fully to personality development.

3. A successful marriage is a romantic adventure with an emphasis on individual rights and freedom from parental control.

4. A successful marriage involves a prudent weighing of other factors important for a lifelong union.

5. A successful marriage is built upon more comradely attachment and anticipated happiness.

6. The longer the period of acquaintance before marriages the greater the chances of marital success.

7. Marriages based on romantic attraction do not turn out as well as carefully reasoned choice involving a prudent weighing of other factors important for a lifelong union.

8. Romance must be termed the prelude to the more sober and realistic consideration of a mate.

9. Romance is a process of fantasy formation, usually adolescent when one idealizes another person, ignoring the faults and magnifying the virtues of the loved one.

10. Romance is a striving for emotional security.

11. Passionate attachment and anticipated happiness outweigh such considerations as companionship, cultural similarities and common social experience.

12. We marry to establish a personally desirable relationship that is voluntary, rests on personal choice, and aims at individual happiness and personality development.

13. Marriage is aimed at living with a person, not merely loving him.

4. Answer the questions:

1. Which husband (wife) would you like to have: one who is

(a) a passionate defender of liberty?

(b) passionate by nature?

(c) a passionate lover?

(d) passionately fond of tennis?

2. When getting married, do you anticipate

(a) romantic dinners for two?

(b) all your matrimonial mate's needs?

(c) matrimonial troubles?

(d) emotional security?

3. Would you prefer your mate's

(a) filial сыновний, дочерний affection?

(b) comradely affection?

(c) warm affection?

(d) deep affection?

4. Do you need

(a) parental control?

(b) parental care?

(c) parental consent to your marriage?

(d) parental anxieties?

5. Which would you like to do:

(a) to join the union?

(b) to break up the union?

(c) to go into the union?

(d) to form a union of hearts?