I. Answer the following questions.

(to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done in writing)

1. How many logical parts can you divide the text into? Prove it by giving the main idea of each part.

2. What is the main idea of the whole passage?

3. What can you say about Mrs. Cuppy's boarding house?

4. What was Clyde's attitude to Walter Dillard? (Find sentences to prove it.)

5. What was Walter Dillard's ambition in life? (Prove your ideas by the choice of words from the text.)

6. Why did Walter Dillard try to cultivate Clyde's friendship?

7. To what stratum of society does Walter Dillard belong judging by the language he speaks? (Find slang, vulgar words, faulty grammar, etc.)

II. Express the same idea in a different way. (to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done orally)

1. Those houses in Wykeagy Avenue are certainly the cats. 2. Are you Samuel Griffiths' own nephew? You don't say! 3. I wish I had a connection like that. You bet I'd make it count. 4. My uncle wants me to stick to that, pretty much. 5. You can't do it and keep in with the nice people. 6. This is an awfully close town that way, they say. 7. The best people won't have anything to do with you unless you g0 with the right crowd. 8. You have 'to belong' or you can't go out anywhere at all.

9. I know two girls we can go and see—peaches.

III. Give English equivalents of the American English words and word combinations from the text.

(to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done orally)

dry goods store; movie; you bet; sure, sure; he's got to have a little fun; I guess; girls of right nice families; on the street

IV. Find in the text corresponding English equivalents. Point out which are literary and which are colloquial and use them in sentences of your own.

(to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done in writing)

что касается его жизни в этом месте; быть лишенным чувства юмора (средств

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существования); в основном; меры предосторожности; представления о; деликатные манеры; завязать дружбу; сама удача стучится в его дверь; верится с трудом; следуя скорее инстинкту, нежели рассудку; стоять в стороне и смотреть свысока; занимать положение в обществе; охотно сообщить приукрашенные подробности о своей жизни; выудить сведения; смотреть с сияющим лицом на кого-либо; иметь такие же связи; немного развлечься; ничего особенного; познакомиться с несколькими девушками; ничего не иметь против; им овладело желание; в результате; он поспешил предложить прогуляться; нельзя ослаблять дисциплину;

• общей сложности, всего

V. What words from the active vocabulary may convey the same meaning?

	(to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done orally)
the state of being cultivated						prudence in regard to danger
entirely without,				empty		measure taken beforehand
recreation, amusement						to ward off evil
bright in appearance						doubtful or not settled in opinion
new looking
	VI. Give the Russian for the following word combinations. Use them in sentences of
your own.
	(to be checked up at the tutorials; to be done orally)
a) to cultivate a person's friendship						c) to relax the muscles
to cultivate		a	plot	of	land	to relax tension
to	cultivate		a good		accent	to relax efforts
to	cultivate		the	mind		to relax attention
a cultivated man						to relax one's guard
cultivated		manners				to relax discipline
b) a smart person						to relax vigilance
a smart answer						d) dubious news
a smart garden						a dubious compliment
a smart talker						a dubious look
						a dubious position

VII. Choose the correct word: devoid or deprived.

(for independent correction)

1. You have ... the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert. (J. Austen)

2. His (Arthur's) voice was impersonal and ... of feeling. (A. Cronin)

3. He was being held down, ... of the two great boons of human existence, independence and private life. (J. Galsworthy)

4. Liverrrore Valley was very fiat, and even the hills around were then to me ... of interest. (J. London)

5. We observe a sense of humour, not ... of wit, which informs and somewhat sterilises all else. (J. Galsworthy)

6. He was a widower well on in years, about to be ... of his only daughter, who did everything about the house. (J. Galsworthy)

7. In the spring wind of a night not ... of beauty, he came to Soutt Square and let himself in. (J. Galsworthy)

8. If ever a girl looked like a leopardess, it was now; her eyes kept sliding from her 'cub' to him who threatened to ... her of it. (J. Galsworthy)

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9. Also she was ... of fear and could settle the hash of both Chinese with one of her mighty arms. (J. London)

9. When death ... me of my wife, I returned to Scotland. (F. Cooper)