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/over others' affairs. 2. "I think/To my mind/In my opinion/I believe/It seems to me there aren't many gossips in our block of flats (Brit)/apartment house (us), we are lucky/we are in luck," said Anne. 3. "I would never have thought that Jane would circulate gossip/would gossip," Kate said. "Just don't listen to her," Dotty answered. 4. Let's go/climb up this winding staircase to the top of the tower. 5. What are you doing? It won't do. (It will never do.) How can one wind off wool like this/in this way? 6. No one could take a man for a ride/Nobody could lead a man down the garden path like little Polly. 7. Put all these odds and ends (all these little things) in a bag and wind a (piece of) rope/string round/around it several times. 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 (off), and anyway it does more harm than good. 10. Why are you peeling the potatoes? For salad it's better to boil them unpeeled/without peeling/in their jackets/skins. 11. Kate sometimes managed to find a tem­porary job but she still couldn't scrape a living. 12. Something has 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 (but the weather was really nasty): it rained steadily from morning till night. 17. At that moment I couldn't help admiring/couldn't help but admire/couldn't resist admiring/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.

В. 1. John's room was in a dreadful/terrible/horrible 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 anymore/any longer. 2. You have made a mess of the whole job/messed up the whole job /blown the whole job again. Aren't you ashamed of not caring at all/being indifferent to everything? 3. She made a mess of my plans /upset/frustrat­ed/foiled my plans by keeping me waiting for four hours. 4. We heard a twig crack. Someone was approaching (us)/was com­ing. 5. How careless you are! Mother's favorite vase has/is cracked: how could you wash it with/in boiling water? 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 painter/artist Rockwell Kent has contributed some of his works to the Pushkin Museum/ Museum's collection of pictures. 11. He spoke with such spirit that he left nobody cold/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. (Its taste is beyond compare/is incomparable.) 15. At first/ Initially/In the beginning the taste of this unfamiliar fruit seemed unpleasant to us, but then/later we got used to slak­ing/quenching our thirst with it. 16. All of us/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 /make jokes /to joke, but many of his jokes are in bad taste. 20. What a nuisance/How annoying! The cucum­bers taste bitter/have a bitter taste.

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