Klimova O.

FAB-1-21(2)

Session 4

 vulnerable  вразливий
 well-to-do  заможний
 conviction  переконання
 eyesore  потворність
 supercilious  зверхній
 convey  передавати
 conscientious  сумлінний
 imperceptibly  непомітно
 desolate  спустошений
 hulking  громіздкий, незграбний
 utterly  абсолютно
 scorn  зневажати
 libel  наклеп
 apparently  очевидно
 peremptory  категоричний
 feel like doing smth  мати бажання щось зробити
 in a reserved way  стримано
 to be privy to  бути причетним до
 to be exempt from  бути звільненим від
 prey on  полювати на
 for one thing  по-перше
 a well-rounded person  всебічно розвинена людина
 matter for reproach  причина для докору
 hate one's guts  ненавидіти когось дуже сильно
 in a murmur  шепітом
 a heart-to-heart talk  відверта бесіда
 go to pieces  розпадатися на частини
  from bad to worse від поганого до гіршого
 It couldn’t be helped.  Цього не можна було уникнути.
 needless to say  само собою зрозуміло

4. Match the given words with their definitions.

1. vulnerable - G. weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally

2. well-to-do - M. rich and belonging to an upper class family

3. conviction - I. a strong belief or opinion about something

4. eyesore - O. something that is ugly or unpleasant to look at, especially a

building

5. supercilious - b

6. convey - D. 1. to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly; 2. to give official

information or a formal message to someone

7. conscientious - K. working hard and careful to do things well

8. imperceptibly - A. something imperceptible is so slight or small that it is

very difficult to notice

9. desolate - E. 1. completely empty with no people or pleasant features in it 2.

feeling very sad and lonely

10.hulking - F. very large and heavy in appearance, especially in a way that

seems ugly or frightening

11.utterly - C. completely: often used for emphasizing how bad someone or

something is

12.scorn - N. a feeling that someone or something is not good enough to

deserve your approval or respect

13.libel - J. the illegal act of writing things about someone that are not true
 14.apparently - L. based only on what you have heard, not on what you are
certain is true

15.peremptory - h

6. Put the verbs in the brackets into correct tense form:

1. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice

that has turned over in my mind ever since.

2. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability

which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament" — it was
an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never
found in any other person and which it is not likely I will ever find again.

3. The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season
and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a
young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a
commuting town it sounded like a great idea.

4. And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees
— just as things grow in fast movies — I had that familiar conviction that
life was beginning over again with the summer.

5. They were both in white and their dresses rippled and fluttered as if they had
just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.

6. She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless
and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it
which was quite likely to fall.

7. They spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here
and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
 8. Tom Buchanan, who never hovered restlessly about the room, stopped and
rested his hand on my shoulder.

9. I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was
I have forgotten long ago.

10.When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again
in the unquiet darkness.

7. Use the Passive Voice in the following sentences:

1. It was the kind of voice that is followed up and down by the ear as if each
speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

2. Tom and I were accepted here, and only a polite pleasant effort was made to
entertain us or allow us to entertain ourselves.

3. In college, I was unjustly accused by people of being a politician because the

secret griefs of wild, unknown men were privy to me.

4. The front was broken by somebody through a line of French windows,

glowing with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon...

5. Before I could reply that he was my neighbor, dinner was announced by

them

6. As for Tom, it was really less surprising that he had "some woman in New
York" than that he had been depressed by a book.

8. Fill the gaps with appropriate prepositions

1. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a
certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

2. The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're
descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch.
3. I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him — with
special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's
office.

4. I graduated from New Haven in 1915.

5. I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this
is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast
between them.

6. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound,
and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen
thousand a season.

7. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual
imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy.

8. When I looked once more at Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again
in the unquiet darkness.

9. "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and
then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.

10."Don't look at me," Daisy retorted.

11.In college, I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy
to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

12.They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted
here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich
together.

13.We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.

14.They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if
they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
 15.At any rate, Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost
imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again.

9. Translate the given sentences into Ukrainian.

1. Мені хочеться висловитись, але я знаю, що це закінчиться суперечкою.

2. Гаразд, ви коли-небудь були закохані в хлопця або любили когось, і ви

робили все, що в ваших жіночих силах, щоб зачепити цього чоловіка, але
нічого не виходило? Ви задавалися питанням, чи це не ви. Що ж, якщо ви
намагалися полювати на чоловіка по-чоловічому, то це ви. Але дозвольте
мені дещо пояснити... Жінки не полюють, ми стримано фліртуємо.

3. Ніхто не причетний до її відчаю, хауосу і сорому.

4. Американські війська, які там служать, звільнені від податків.

5. Леви полюють на величезні стада антилоп гну і зебр.

6. Ну, по-перше, вам це ніколи не зійде з рук.

7. Вона описує себе як "всебічно розвинену особистість", яка багато працює,

але має різноманітне соціальне життя.

8. Те, що китайські судові органи обійшлися з ним суворо, відповідно до

закону, не є предметом для докору.

9. Я відчуваю, що Джо ненавидить мене після того, як я переміг його на

турнірі.

10. Коли я поклав руку йому на плече, вся його постать здригнулася, на губах
затремтіла хвороблива посмішка, і він заговорив тихим, нерозбірливим
бурмотінням, немов не усвідомлюючи моєї присутності.

11. Коли розмовляєш по душах з багатьма, здавалося б, раціональними

людьми, виявляється, що вони мають божевільні теорії.
12. Людина найвищого таланту разваляться на шматки, якщо залишаться
назавжди на одному і тому ж місці.

13. У міру того, як тривали бої, гуманітарна ситуація в Адені ставала все
гіршою і гіршою.

14. Я не був у захваті від суботнього прибирання, але нічого не міг вдіяти - в
будинку був безлад!

15. Само собою зрозуміло, що мені слід було витратити більше часу на звіт,
але я просто не мав його.