Vocabulary exercises

Part Five

70 – 87 pp. (edition of 2004 year)

66 – 82 pp. (edition of 2007 year)

Comprehension exercises

5.1.1 Say if the following statements are true or false according to the text.

1. Judy was afraid of daddies-long-legs.

2. When Jervis Pendleton read the book “On the Trail” he was young.

3. The spotted cow with one horn ate apples in the orchard and got ill.

4. Judy found French a most unusual study.

5. The girls discussed lemon jelly heartedly as they liked it at the table.

6. Judy was elected a class president.

7. Daddy-long-legs gave Judy a new gown as a Christmas present.

8. Sallie had a very big family.

9. The drawback of Christmas holidays for Judy was the fact that Mrs. Lippett couldn’t be there.

10. Jervis Pendleton called to visit Judy to speak about Lock Willow.

5.1.2 Complete the following sentences. Arrange the sentences in the correct order according to the contents of the text.

1. The three Sophomores lived in room …

2. Coming back to college Judy found out that she would room with …

3. The book found in the attic was called… and belonged to …

4. In the attic Judy found ….

5. The fact that Judy … let her recommend Lock Willow as a …

6. Sallie’s big, good-looking brother named … was a junior at …

7. Judy should rather have elected … than … in a new school year.

8. Judy called Julia’s uncle … to his face when he called again one afternoon.

9. They at Lock Willow were waiting for a steam engine and three extra men in order to …

Vocabulary exercises

5.2.1 Translate and transcribe the following words from the text. Read and translate sentences, containing them.

Blackberry; column; drowsily; hymn; psychology; ancestor; bigoted; immensely; blasphemous; muslin; ostensibly; adventurous; health resort; inimical; intrigue; convent school; octagon; consecutive; knob.

5.2.2 Find Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations from the text. Say in what situations they were used in the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.

For the world; to have a sense of humour; to settle down to smth; to be dead drunk; to hold one’s breath; to feel at home; to be in command of smth.; in the least; to make up one’s mind (to do smth); to run for; in order to do smth; to be drowned; to be black and blue; at the prospect; to see with one’s own eyes; next to impossible.

5.2.3 Explain in English.

1. I wouldn’t hurt one of them for the world.

2. The Semples have inherited their God intact from their remote Puritan ancestors.

3. Young Jervis Pendleton was a nice tousle-headed boy.

4. For two days the cow has been perfectly dead drunk.

5. Behold me – I’m a Sophomore!

6. I’m beginning to feel at home in college and in the command of the situation.

7. The Pendletons are inimical to change.

8. I just managed to squeeze through the June examination.

9. Isn’t that a lark?

10. I walk from room to room and drink in the furnishings.

5.2.4 Find in the text the words with the suffix –ous. Translate them. What does the suffix mean? What part of speech does this suffix form? Add 5 examples of your own.

5.2.5 Insert the prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences; ask a special question to each sentence.

1. I promised to pick some blackberries.____ supper.

2. I picked him ___ very gently ___ one leg and dropped him ___ ___ the window.

3. They remind me__ you.

4. I’m beginning to feel ___ home ___ college.

5. Who do think I’m rooming ___?

6. I’ll be ___ a position to discuss them more definitely ___ next month.

7. Harriet Martin and I will casually drop a few thoughts ___ the subject ___ our next president.

8. Julia and I come ___ ___ a great deal ___ reflected glory.

9. A nice cook saves ___ a piece ___ dough ___ the children ___ bake.

10. I called him ‘Master Jervie’ ___ his face.

5.2.6 Make up 3 sentences according to the pattern:

“… the more one thinks about this problem, the more puzzling it becomes.”

Discussion

5.3.1 Answer the questions.

1. What religious differences of opinion did Judy and the Semples have?

2. Describe Amasai and Carrie.

3. How did Judy imagine a young boy Jervis Pendleton?

4. Why was Judy sorry to think that young Jervis was a Pendleton?

5. Describe the way Judy felt coming back to college after summer vacations.

6. What did she think of rooming with Sallie and Julia?

7. Enlist the subjects Judy took up that year.

8. Why did Judy want and didn’t want to be brought up in a French convent?

9. Comment upon the problems which engaged the attention of girls at the table.

10. What were the results and consequences of the elections?

11. Describe Sallie’s house and family.

12. What difficulties were caused by a visit of Julia’s uncle?

13. What secret of treating men did Judy know? Do you share her opinion?

5.3.2 Prove with the facts from the text that:

1. Judy is respectful to spiders.

2. The book found in the attic was interesting.

3. Judy had an inquisitive mind.

4. She was keen on sport.

5. The McBrides had the most perfect house for children to be brought in.

6. Judy could be called blasphemous.

7. She felt as a Trustee at a Christmas ball for the employees’ children.

8. Julia’s uncle was amiable.

5.3.3 Make a literary translation of one of the following extracts (edition of 2007 year).

1. From 77 p. “I’ve been having…” up to 78 p. “…at Princeton”;

2. From 80 p. “Our innocent prattle…” up to 81 p. “…about the pasture.” (in writing)

5.3.4 Speak about:

1. Judy’s life at the Semples’;

2. Beginning of a school year;

3. Life at college;

4. Christmas at the McBrides’;

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