Home assignment

ex. 9 p. 16
1. That’s nothing more than a real crime to send the poor boy in such
darkness alone.
2. Her excellent exam score is nothing more than a wonder, given the
fact that she has been in hospital for a month..
3. Your words are nothing more than an insult, and I demand you to
apologise.
4. Anyway, it was the end of my contract and I didn’t worry about
anything.
5. Anyway, Old Jollion laid down a condition – Bosinney must have four
hundred pounds of annual income.
6. I will not have you behaving like this in my house.
7. Soms had Iren put on the jewelry that he had just presented to her.
8. Now that the outstanding violinist's horizons are wide open, he has
given up the idea of leaving his homeland.
9. Now that Pamela didn’t bother what people could say about her, they
stopped gossiping.
10. It's just tactless to ask him for help now that he is out of work.
ex. 13 p. 18
1. Everybody tried to persuade convince him to use a crib, but he stood his
ground. «Honesty is the best policy», he used to say.
2. Business-looking Diana ran her eyes through the list of the guests invited to
the Iris’ farewell dinner and ticked off the names of those who were not to be
invited.
3. Mike, have you swotted everything up for the exam?
4. Keep an eye on the children. Now that they are left without parents you can
expect everything from them. But please, don’t raise your voice to them.
5. Usually it takes a week to grade the examination papers at the college.
6. The results of the interview will come out in three days
 7. Dorothy rallied her thoughts and coped with the answer perfectly.
8. Anyway, he managed to stumble through the exam and now he is in a very
despondent state.
9. Chester just began explaining the situation but Ray cut him short.
10.The head of the group called out the names of the contestants loudly, and
they came out from behind the door/came out of the room/through the doorway
slowly.
ex 16 p. 18
1. F(To a medical student the final examinations are something like death)
2. F (There is rarely any frank cheating in medical examinations)
3. F (Malcolm Maxworth was the St. Swithin's representative on the examining
Committee and thenceforward we attended all his ward rounds)
4. T
5. T
6. F (Women students - the attractive ones, not those who are feminine only
through inescapable anatomic arrangements — are under disadvantage in oral
examinations)
7. T
8. T
9. T
10. T

ex. 17a p.19

1. b
2. g
3. n
4. l
5. m
6. p
7. a
8. o
9. – (a misprint)
10. e
11.k
12.f
13.d
14.c
15.h
16.-(a misprint)
17.j
 the opiate oblivion.
 a certain remoteness
ex.19 a p 20
1. Gordon equate the final examinations with death because he believes that the
exam is an unpleasant inevitability to be faced sooner or later, one’s state after
which is determined by care spent in preparing for the event.
2. The candidates spend almost as much time over the technical details of the
contest as they do learning general medicine from their text and books.
3. The students so particular to humour Malcolm Maxworth because he was the St.
Swithin’s representative on the examining Committee.
4. The examination began with the written papers. A single invigilator sat in his
gown and hood on a raised platform to keep an eye open for flagrant cheating. He
was helped by two or three uniformed porters who stood by the door and looked
dispassionately down at the students.
5. The unpopular oral examination was held a week after the papers. The written
answers have a certain remoteness about them, and mistakes and omissions, like
those of life, can be made without the threat of immediate punishment. But the
viva is judgement day. A false answer and the god’s brow threatens like imminent
thunderstorm.
6. There was the Nonchalant, lolling back on the rear legs of his chair with his feet
on the table. Next to him, a man of the Frankly Worried class sat on the edge of his
chair tearing little bits off his invitation card and jumping irritatingly every time
the door opened. There was the Crammer, fondling the pages of his battered
textbook in a desperate farewell embrace, and his opposite, the Old Stager, who
treated the whole thing with the familiarity of a photographer at a wedding. He had
obviously failed the examination so often he looked upon the viva simply as
another engagement to be fitted into his day.
7. The days after the viva were black ones. It was like having a severe accident.
For the first few hours the author was numbed, unable to realize what had hit him.
Then he began to wonder if he would ever make a recovery and win through. One
or two of his friends heartened him by describing equally depressing experiences
that had overtaken them previously and still allowed them to pass.
8. Grimsdyke said: «One doesn't fail exams. One comes down, one muffs, one is
ploughed, plucked, or pipped. These infer a misfortune that is not one's own fault.
To speak of failing is bad taste. It's the same idea as talking about passing away
and going above instead of plain dying».
9. He was like a man just hit by a blackjack.