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B. Adventure
Adventure is necessary to us all. It keeps us from growing stale and old, it stimulates our imagination, it gives us that movement and change which are necessary to our well-being.
One of the objects of travel is to go in search of beauty. The beauty-spots of the world are magnets which draw pilgrims year after year. Yet, even more valuable to the traveller is the knowledge which he gets of his fellow men by going among people of different enthusiasms. It is a story of the stay-at-home who is always ready to call someone else “queer” because his ways are a little different; the much travelled man has sympathy with all sorts of ways and is therefore much more likely to be able to understand another point of view than his own. Frequent travel to other countries would be the best possible insurance against any war. For when you have stayed in the homes of people of other nations and grown to like them and to understand their ways, you will have the greatest antipathy for fighting against them.
And then there is for the traveller the great joy of coming home again. He who never leaves his home sees all its imperfections; but the voyager, when his lust for new things is satiated, turns his thoughts towards home with longing and affection. However humble his home may be, it contains all the things with which he is most familiar. He loves them, and being parted for a little while from them increases his desire for them. So the traveller, besides the delight of travel, has the additional satisfaction of a fuller appreciation of his home.
4. Comprehensive questions:
a) What do children usually dream about?
b) Do those dreams affect their way of life later on?
c) Were the man’s adventures very startling in his childhood? Why?
d) What is the difference between a child’s attitude to a journey and that of an adult person?
e) Why is adventure necessary to us all?
f) What is one of the objects of travel?
g) What does the traveller get of his fellow men?
h) What would be the best possible insurance against war?
i) Why does the traveller have the additional satisfaction of a fuller appreciation of his home?
5. Explain the meanings of the following words and word combinations in English and use them in situations of your own:
capture one’s imagination; longing; submerge; conventional upbringing; sufficient; have a decisive effect on; recollection; adventure; startling; infinitely high; delight; stimulate one’s imagination; frequent voyage; be measured in; journey; monotonous; immensely exciting; precise conception of; confirm one’s notion; point out; chug noisily; jungle-clad; paddy-fields; belch; spout; in the wake of; blissful; dreary years; master; keep somebody from growing stale; well-being; go in search of beauty; beauty-spots; draw pilgrims; fellow men; people of different enthusiasms; stay-at-home; have sympathy with; insurance; ways of life; have antipathy for; imperfections; satiate one’s lust; affection; humble; traveller; appreciation.
? 6. Translate the following vocabulary into English, make up your own sentences using them.
привабливий/чарівний, виражати палке бажання/прагнення до чогось, бути обтяженим, достатній, спогади, захоплення/задоволення, збуджувати чиюсь увагу, бути одноманітним, захоплююча подорож, не мати точного уявлення про час, вражаючий, попутник, люди з різними уподобаннями, мати співчуття до когось, розлучатися з домівкою, розуміння/визнання цінності домівки, скромний/простий.
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