Chapters 64 – 74 (p.210 - 241)

Active vocabulary

1. futile (p.214) ch.66 – бесполезный, тщетный, пустой

2. to die a martyr (p.217) – умереть, страдая; умереть ради…

3. yield (p.221) – уступить; сдаться

4. to be reluctant to do smth. (p.221) – неохотно, без желания делать ч-л

5. to have one’s tongue in one’s cheek (p.228) – говорить неискренне, лицемерно; говорить насмешливо, иронически

6. to keep out of smb’s way (p.230) – держаться подальше от; не попадаться на ч-л пути

7. despicable (p.230) – презренный

8. degrade (p.230) – приходить в упадок; разрушать

9. fast (p.233) – легкомысленный

10.to misjudge smb. (p.234) – недооценивать

11.to do the right thing (p.235) – делать то что надо; поступать правильно

12. to make much of smb. (p.235) – высоко ценить к-л; быть высокого мнения о ; носиться с к-л; преувеличивать, превозносить

13. to pull smb’s leg (p.241) – обманывать к-л; морочить голову; вешать лапшу на уши

Exercises

I Read chapters 64-74

II Look up the pronunciation of the following words and learn them:

shown; garish; dahlias; dawn; thief; grotesque; scarcely; virtuous; buffaloes; chaos; science; martyr; demeanour; yield; exalt; virtue; pursue; serenity; convenient; wraith; handkerchief; indulgent; wrap; meritorious; equal; inquisitive; masque; tortuous; phantasmagoria; exulant; equisite; tremulous; appendicitis; luxurious; porcelain; fragile.

III Reproduce situations from the text in which the words under study are used.

IV Make up a situation of your own; use from five to ten words and word-combinations under study.

V Give synonyms or synonymous expressions to the following:

to be out of place

to saunter

scarcely

immortal

industriously

to break the silence

to give up smth.

to brood

pressing affairs

to come to an end

shortly

to make arrangements

placid

to have one’s own way

self-imposed duties

not care two straws woe

to make up for

homely

to bear smb. A grudge

to waste money on…

to be entitled to

entertainment

VI Translate in writing into Russian the paragraph on p.214

“I can’t tell you … lead them to life everlasting.”

VII Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Веддингтон сказал, что Уолтер умер ради науки и своего долга. Китти возразила, что он умер от разбитого сердца.

2. Непонятно, почему он недооценивает своих сотрудников. Это не означает, что он должен превозносить их или говорить лицемерно; но ему нужно быть справедливым.

3. Посмотри, все в квартире приходит в упадок. Здесь требуется ремонт, а ты не желаешь это делать. Если ты не хочешь делать то, что надо, то лучше не мешай мне.

4. Бесполезно разговаривать с тобой серьезно. Ты вечно вешаешь мне лапшу на уши.

VIII Answer the following questions:

1. Why did Kitty want to sit at the window in the bungalow?

2. When and how was Walter buried?

3. Was Kitty’s behaviour during the funeral unusual? Why?

4. How did Kitty treat the nuns, their work and way of life?

5. How did Waddington understand the meaning of human life?

6. What was the cause of Walter’s death?

7. How did Kitty react to the news broken by Waddington?

8. Why didn’t Waddington want to tell Kitty what the quotation mean at first?

9. What was the reason for Kitty’s staying in Mei-tan-fu?

10. Why did the Mother Superior insist on Kitty’s leaving it?

11. Did the Mother Superior love and respect Kitty? Give your grounds.

12. Why did the Mother superior never regret that she had entered religion?

13. What did the Mother superior want Kitty to do whaen she arrived at Marselles?

14. What did Kitty think about on her way to Hong Kong?

15. What did she appreciate in her freedom?

16. Did she lie herself?

17. Who met Kitty in Hong Kong?

18. What motives prompted Dorothy to offer hospitality?

19. Was Kitty reluctant to take the offer? Why?

20. Do you think Dorothy knew about her husband’s love affair with Kitty?

21. Why didn’t Charlie look as Kitty had pictured him?

22. Did he respect for Kitty?

23. What business did he want to talk about with Kitty?

24. What way of life did Kitty have at the Townsend?

IX Give a summary of ch. 64-74

X Describe in detail:

1. TAO as related by Waddington.

2. Charles Townsend.

XI speak on the following:

1. Waddington.

2. The view on life at large as expressed in ch. 69.

3. The way of life of Hong Kong’s colonial administration.

4. The Kitty that arrived in Hong Kong and the Kitty that had left it several weeks before.

XII Paraphrase or explain:

1. At the memorial arch he said good-buy to her, and looking at it for the last enigmatic irony of her own. (p.226)

2. The habiliments of woe could not but serve as an effective disguise to her unexpected feelings. (p.231)

3. I know I can do nothing to make up for your terrible loss, but I want you to know how deeply, how sincerely I feel for you. (p.234)

4. Of course she had always admitted that his voice had a winning quality, … and she wondered how she could ever have been taken in by it. (p.239)

Unit IX