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Exercise 1, p. 7

1. This is more like a word for word translation than a literary one. 2. It is more like a fable than a
fairy tale. 3. The fabric looks more like cotton than viscose. 4. Ann looks more like a schoolgirl
than a college student. 5. With this hairdo she looks more like a boy than a girl. 6. We walked
round the village for an hour or so. 7 .I stayed with my friends for a fortnight or so.8.I lived in the
town for three years or so. 9 .I am not through with the book yet. I’ve read only 50 pages or so.
10. Since everyone is present, I think it is an excellent opportunity to announce that fane and I
have just got engaged.11. We are through with our work. Isn’t it a wonderful opportunity to go
to some nice bar and cut loose? 12. We’ve been looking for her house for more than an hour. I
would never have thought that her place would be so difficult to find. 13. There seems to be no
end to dirty clothes. I should never have thought that one man could soil so many shirts, vests
and underpants in so short a time. 14. The more we listened to him, the more he convinced us
that his course of action was just the ticket. 15. The more John looked at her, the less he liked
what he saw. 16. The more I think about her decision, the less I agree with it. 17. The more
indignant Andrew became, the more he stuttered. 18. The longer we waited, the more im
patient we felt. 19- Who’ll go to the baker’s? There is no bread left. 20. I’m going to the
stationer’s. There is no paper left. 21. Why go shopping? - We have nofood left. 22. We needn’t
hurry. There is plenty o f time left. 23. Hurry up. We have no time left. 24. Why not put the
tablenear the window? - There seems to be no room left. 25. Where will you put the bookcase?
There seems to be no very little space left in room.

Exercise 2, p. 8

1. I should never have thought that looking after a child was so tiresome. 2. I would never have
thought that writing a summary o f this article might cost so much effort. 3.I should never
have thought that scrubbing a sooty saucepan clean might turn out to be such a trying job.
4. The harder he worked, the bigger wages he earned. 5. The more he thought over the
problem, the less he knew what to do. 6. The more we stayed at the “Holiday Inn”, the more
we liked the place.7. That won't do. You shouldn’t be so careless. 8. That won't do. You’ll
have to do everything all over again. 9. That won't do. You treat the matter too lightly. 10.
That won't do. Your answer is wrong.

Exercise 5, pp. 8 -9

A. In spring on our way back to Moscow we happened to pass a small town. It was more like a
big village than a town, all its houses were smothered in roses and it seemed to us so lovely that
we couldn’t help stopping there (couldn’t keep from stopping there. I should never have
thought that a walk round a small provincial town could be such a pleasure. We walked around
the town for 3 hours or so, and the more we looked at that fairy-like nook, more we admired it.
But there wasn’t much time there was very little time left, and we had to hurry to Moscow.

B. Last year my wife and I had to take a holiday in winter. We decided that it was a splendid
opportunity to renovate our flat. After two days’ work it looked more like a ware house full
of broken furniture than a flat. “That won’t do my wife said. “We’d better hire house
painters and have it redecorated.”

Exercise 3, р. 18
А. 1. The Browns were glad to drop of an evening for a cocktail and some gossip. 2. He
chuckled at the thought of how successfully they had deceived the gossips. 3. Ann wound
Tom round her little finger. 4. It’s time he wound up his speech. 5. She hates peeling
potatoes. 6. Put the towel round your shoulders or you’ll burn and your skin will peel. 7. The
silly boy is always getting into a mess. 8. Scrape the mud off the soles of your shoes before
you go into the cottage. 9. It took the boys much time and effort to scrape together the
money they needed. 10. He is a steady young man. 11. He turned out to be a steady worker.
I2. He was not bad-looking and had a good steady job. 13. The table was unsteady, as one of
its legs was broken. 14. The rain is
pouring down steadily.

B. 1. After he had finished packing, the room was in a mess.2. But for your carelessness you
w ouldn’t have got into a scrape. 3. But even he must have known that he had made a mess
of the job. 4. There is a crack in the vase. 5. He’s fond of cracking jokes. 6. Poor as they
were, the workers were ready to contribute to their common cause. 7. He regularly
contributes poems to our newspaper. 8. He came to lunch in particularly high spirits. 9. He
did the job with such spirit that he
accomplished a shining success. 10. After supper everyone was in high spirits. 11. When he
is ill he does not taste food for days. 12. The soup tastes of onions. 13. There is no
accounting for tastes. 14. What do you know of
his tastes? 15. After our quarrel even my favourite dish seemed tasted awful.

Exercise 5, p. 20

peel - scrape
1. New potatoes are nice to the taste but I hate scraping them. 2. I’ve boiled potatoes in
their skins, will you peel them?

steady - firm
1. The chair was not stead y because one of its legs was broken. 2. The oak-tree stood firm
in the earth.
crack - break
1. The cup had cracked, but the pieces still held together. 2. The ice cracked and then broke
under his feet. 3- Brittle things break easily.

taste - flavour
1. The peach has a peculiarly fine flavour. 2. The fruit looked
tempting, but it turned out to have an unpleasant taste. 3.I like
the lemon flavour of the sweets.

Exercise 6, p. 20

заниматься сплетнями - to gossip; to talk gossip;

заводить часы - to wind (up) a watch (a clock);
сматывать шерсть в клубок - to wind wool;
задеть локтем за что-л. - to scrape one’s elbow on
работать без передышки - to work steadily; внести вклад во что-л. - to make a
contribution to smth., to
contribute to smth.;
дух времени - the spirit of the times
работать с огоньком - to work with spirit;
быть горьким на вкус - to taste bitter, to have
обвести кого-л. вокруг пальца - to lead smb. .
попасть в беду - to get into trouble
быть замешанным в каком-л. деле - to be mixed up in smth.;
о вкусах не спорят - tastes differ/there is no accounting for tastes;
в хорошем вкусе - in good taste, tastefully

Exercise 7, p. 20-22
A.
1. To be on the safe side don’t talk about these affairs, some people are fond of gossiping
about.2. “It seems to me
there aren’t many gossips in our block of flats we are lucky” said Anne. 3. “I would never
have thought that Jane would circulate
gossip,” Kate said. “Just don’t listen to her,” Dotty answered. 4. Let’s go this winding
staircase to the top of the tower. 5. What are you doing? It w on’t do. How can one wind off
wool like this. 6.Nobody could lead a man
down the garden path like little Polly. 7. Put all these odds and ends in a bag and wind a
rope. 8. Don’t peel the bark off the birch-tree, you’ll hurt it. 9. You shouldn’t lie in the
sun so long, your skin will peel and anyway it does more harm than good. 10. Why are you
peeling the potatoes? For salad it’s better to boil them in their jackets.11. Kate sometimes
managed to find a temporary job but she still couldn’t scrape a living. 12. Somethinghas
stuck to my sole and I can’t scrape it off, it must be tar. 13. Look out! Don’t scrape your arm
against/on the nail. 14. Don’t scrape your fork on your plate, please, I hate this sound. 15.
He just scraped through the examinations but I think he has realized that one shouldn’t
waste so much time. 16. It’s quite a decent holiday centre but we had very bad luck with the
weather it rained steadily
from morning till night. 17. At that moment I couldn’t help but couldn’t keep from admiring
her self-control. With a steady hand she threaded the needle and went on sewing as
though nothing had happened. 18. He seemed quite a steady young man. 19. Let’s put
something under the leg of the table
to steady it.

B. 1. John’s room was in a dreadful mess

but when his sister took advantage of his absence to tidy it up a bit he got very angry and
said that he couldn’t find anything
there any longer. 2. You have m ade a mess of the whole job again. Aren’t you ashamed of
not being indifferent to everything? 3. She made a mess of my plans by keeping me waiting
for four hours. 4. We
heard a twig crack. Someone was approaching . 5. How careless you are! Mother’s favorite
vase has cracked: how could you wash it with? 6. Now it is dangerous/unsafe to cross the
river because of the cracks in the ice. 7. The paint on the window-sill has/is cracked. We will
have to scrape it off before repainting. 8. Regular training contributed to his success in the
competition. 9. He refused to contribute his poems to our wall-newspaper and now there is
no time to ask somebody else to do it. 10. The American artist Rockwell Kent has
contributed some of his works to the Pushkin Museum’s collection of pictures. 11. He spoke
with such spirit that he left nobody
 remained indifferent. 12. As soon as you tell him about it his spirits will rise. 13- You have
taken the criticism in the right spirit, just as I expected. 14.1 remember that there is half a
bottle of strawberry juice left somewhere. It tastes like nothing else on
earth.15. In the beginning the taste of this unfamiliar fruitseemed unpleasant to us, but
then quenching our thirst with it. 16. We all knew her to be a woman of taste. 17.1 don’t
like the taste of carrots. Don’t put them into the salad, please. 18. This shop has such a
choice of goods that you are sure to find something to your taste. 19. He likes to crack to
joke, in bad taste. 20. What a nuisance. The cucumbers taste bitter.

Exercise 8, p. 22

1. Gossip.
2. Peel.
3. Contribution.
4. Taste.
5. A gossip.
6. We call such a person steady.
7.She can wind twist anyone round her little finger.
8. It is in a mess.
9. I would try to steady it.

10. I taste it.

11. I have to scrape the burnt porridge off its bottom clean.

12. One must scrape up/together enough money to pay the tuition.

13. It is sure to crack.

14. If all goes well, my spirits rise and if things go from bad to worse they sink.

Exercise 9, p. 22

1. What are you talking about? I’m not a gossip.

2. I know that it’s in a mess but how could I help it? I’ve slipped and fallen right into the mud.

3. You couldn’t be more wrong. He made a big contribution.

4. Yes, I know I should have worked with more

spirit, but honest to goodness I just couldn’t: I was feeling dogtired.

5. I’m out of spirits.

6.I guess that’s because I was in very low spirits. My girlfriend had just dum ped me.

7. Oh, dear God! It looks a mess! You must demand compensation.

8. We’d better add some water to it and stir it all up. 9- Don’t you know her? She’s the kind of woman
to wind any man round her little finger.

10. It’s rotten. It tastes bitter.

11. Oh no, not he. He only just scraped through them.

12. The one whose shirt is in a mess. See that large gravy stain? And lipstick all over the collar?

13. Oh yes, he was though he just scraped through the entrance exams.

14. That’s metal scraping on glass. Disgusting,

isn’t it?

Exercise 14, pp. 23-24

1. Such a teacher is hard to find, he is one in a thousand.

2.I was in the very midst of the crowd and couldn’t come up to you.

3. If I were you/in your place I would wait a little, it’s in your interests.

4. “Who has taken out the mailpost today? One newspaper is missing,” the father said in indignantly.

5. The bus conductor helped the an old

woman to get on.

6. Jim opened the door and let in the dog wet

with rain.

7. “You are in low spirits today, aren’t you?” - “Yes, I’m feeling somewhat depressed I’d rather stay at
home and read.”

8. John helped his wife off with her coat and into the armchair by the fireplace.

9- Don’t you know that one should not

write a test in pencil?

10. We got off the train and set out in

search of a hotel.

11. Speak in a whisper. Anne seems to have fallen asleep.

12. George cut off a slice of bread, buttered it and

started eating.

13. This student is sure of his knowledge and is

showing off a little.

14. The paint won’t come off the coat, I can’t

scrape it off.

15. “Do you know how he is getting on with the book he is writing?” - “I haven’t seen him for a long
time, we don’t get along.” - “But why? I believe you are finding fault with him. For all his shortcomings
faults he is a very decent man.”