II. Answer the following questions:

N. Langley. The Return

II. Answer the following questions:

1. How did Pomfret happen to buy a farm in Rhodesia?
Pomfret came to South Africa to find gold but instead of it he found and bought a desert farm.

2. What did he find on the farm?
He found on the farm a desert of sand and stones. Five head of cattle were dying of thirst round the back door of the house.

3. Where did he get water?
He got water from a mud puddle fifty-two miles away

4. When did he decide to get a windmill and why?
He decided to get a windmill because he thought he was dealing with a two-man job, and that a windmill would safe a hundred-mile trip twice a week for water.

5. Where did he meet Kennedy and why did he take him into a pub?
He met Kennedy outside the railway station, on his way to catch the train. Kennedy looked broke, ill and hungry, and so he took him into a pub and filled him with whisky and cheese biscuits. Pomfret liked Kennedy.

6. What did he ask Kennedy about and what did he offer him?
He asked him weather Kennedy wanted to work with him and offered him a job.

7. When and how did they sell their first crop?
They sold their first crop for a modest price three years later.

8. Why did Kennedy think that Pomfret was a man who took a chance?
He thought it because he looked a thug.

9. How did Kennedy fall ill?
A drought came, it made the windmill useless and sent Kennedy down with fever.

10. What happened when Kennedy came to himself? (Where was he, what did Pomfret tell him?)
He found himself in his bed with a mountain of heavy blankets and smelling of quinine. Pomfret told him that Kennedy would have a holiday in Port Shepstone.

11. What did Kennedy feel when he saw Margaret?
He was seized with shyness.

12. Why did Craddock chatter all the way home?
He wanted Kennedy to feel at ease.

13. Why did Kennedy think that Margaret did not guess about his feelings?
Because he thought didn’t give her any pretext.

14. What did Margaret feel towards Kennedy?
She didn’t love him. She was ruthless and designing. She was afraid of creeping spinsterhood that’s why she agreed to go with him.

15. What did Pomfret think about Margaret and how did he meet her?
Pomfret took her hand warmly but his eyes said “I’ve got your number. You’re a rotter.”

16. What did Margaret do when she came to their farm?
She worked wonders with the house.

17. Why did the two friends engage Calvert O’Brien?
They needed help in managing with the increasing work.

18. What happened when the war broke out?
The two men decided to go to the war.

19. How did the two friends happen to be wounded?
Once being in expedition, a bullet hit a tree above Pomfret’s head. They fell on their stomachs as five or six more followed it and then Pomfret caught a glimpse of a hand grenade sailing toward them.

20. What happened to the two friends in the hospital?
Pomfret recovered but Kennedy was in bad condition.

21. What did Pomfret do to keep Kennedy alive?
He read him Margaret’s pseudo-letters.

22. What did Margaret write in her letter?
She wrote that she fell in love with Calvert and that Kennedy was too good for her.

23. Why was Pomfret afraid to tell his friend the truth?
Because this truth would kill him.

24. What did Pomfret tell his friend at last?
He told his fried the truth.

25. What was Kennedy’s reaction and what did he do with Margaret’s letter?
He couldn’t believe it because he thought Pomfret had done it because he hated Margaret, then he tore the letter off.

26. What happened at the station? (What did Margaret tell them?)
Margaret came to meet them at the station. Margaret told she had received 2 telegrams: one was about their loss, the other about their coming home.

27. What did Pomfret think Margaret would do and why? Why did he decide to go away?
He thought she would make Kennedy happy and he decided to go away not to disturb them.

VII. Paraphrase, using the vocabulary of the text.

1. He said these words in such a soft voice that very few people heard them.

2. It will teach you to save time

3. His demands were not modest

4. He paid for my fare to the seashore

5. She cared a fig for the children while I was in the hospital

6. I’m just a bit tired

7. It was a great blow to him and for a long time he could not get over it.

Exercise 8.

ожидать	to expect
впереди	ahead of
снять (пальто, шляпу)	to take of one's coat, hat
остальные (вещи, книги)	the rest of the things, books
топор	axe
говядина	beef
туча	cloud
сильная лихорадка	bad fever
сэкономить	to save
у (около) дома	outside the house
в прекрасном настроении	in excellent spirits
искать	to look for
плата за билет (в поезде, автобусе)	fare
свет погас	the light went out
скромный	modest
еще один такой же год	another season like this
налить	to pour
распухший (распухнуть)	swollen (swell)
одеяло	blanket
предупредить	to warn
почувствовать облегчение	to feel relieved
мягкий голос	soft voice
робость	shyness
неловкий	awkward
ни капельки	not a bit
отрицать	to deny
прохладный	cool
поправиться (пополнеть)	to put on weight
догадаться	to guess
пляж	beach
скучать по ком-нибудь	to miss somebody
обращаться с кем-либо	to treat somebody
больше не (друг и т.п.)	no longer (a friend etc.)
солнечный удар	sunstroke
забыть (пережить)	to get over something
расстраивать	to upset
волновать(ся)	to worry
разорвать на куски	to tear to pieces

Exercise 14.

1. She used to worry about him.

2. He used to admit it.

3. They used to forget about it quickly.

4. We used to have no idea where we were going.

5. He used to hide his irritation.

1. You don’t need to eat beef if you don’t like it.

2. You don’t need to wait outside.

3. You don’t have to look after him, he isn’t ill.

4. You don’t need to take blanket and pillow.

5. He doesn’t have to speak in such a low voice.

Exercise 20.

It’s quite a usual thing for people to sacrifice their happiness for the sake of others.

As for me, I don’t agree with this statement. Nowadays people are more concentrated on their own personal problems and don’t pay much attention on what’s happening to the others. Most of us are doing their best to earn money to buy some things that make our life more comfortable, things that make person feel self-sufficient. For example, one can work hard first to buy a flat, than to make it comfortable, than he is not enough with his flat and he buys a house and so on and so forth. And this person will hardly ever think about people who are starving in Africa or who live in poorty having not enough money to buy a loaf of bread. I think most of businessmen who seem to do a charity are doing this only to make the others consider them generous and noble but in fact they are counting every penny for not to give too much. Sure, helping to the others it is not obligatory to sacrifice your own happiness, but people often deny to help even when they are not supposed to make a sacrifice. A glance at the history helps to see that there were some cases when person helped to another one harming himself, but nowadays the time is different and people are different and such cases became very rare.

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