VIII Answer the following questions:

1. What features of Walter made him a good husband?

2. What was Kitty exasperated in him by?

3. Did Kitty’s opinion of Walter differ much from the others?

4. Why wasn’t Walter popular?

5. What references to the social status of a bacteriologist were given in the text?

6. Did Kitty constantly compare Charles with Walter? Why?

7. Why did she make so much of Charles’ accomplishments? What do you make of them?

8. In what way was Kitty’s love predetermined by her upbringing?

9. Did her love add to her accomplishments?

10. How did Kitty plan her future and Dorothy’s, Walter’s?

11. Did she see that she might cause them a lot of pain, misery?

12. Was her position humiliating?

13. How did Townsend regard the situation?

14. Why did he think that Walter wouldn’t kick up a row?

15. Which utterances of Townsend’s show that he was not much in love with Kitty?

16. How did Walter take the shock? Why do you think he kept silence about the matter?

17. Whose point of view is predominant in the novel? Why?

IX Give a summary of ch.12-21.

X Describe in detail:

1. Popular opinion of Walter.

2. Kitty’s visit to Ku-Chou’s.

XI Speak on the following:

1. Kitty’s attitude towards her husband.

2. Kitty’s evaluation of Charles Townsend.

3. The position Kitty was put into by Townsend.

4. Walter taking the shock.

XII Paraphrase or explain the following:

1. Walter “could not bring himself to play the round games which Kitty with her high spirits found such a lark”. (p.35)

2. Charles “never let red tape interfere with him”. (p.40)

3. If Walter “wanted to make a scene, it was his lookout; he must not be surprised if he got more than he bargained for”. (p.48)

4. “He danced rottenly, he was a wet blanket at a party”… (p.49)

5. “… when you came down to brass tacks a bacteriologist is no great shakes…” (p.56)

Unit III

Chapters 22-27 (pp.62-91)

Active vocabulary

1. of one’s own free will (p.64) – по собственному желанию

2. to be frightened out of one’s wits (p.65) – сильно испугаться

3. commonplace (p.69) – простой, обычный, избитый

4. second-rate (p.69) – второсортный, заурядный

5. vindictive (p.70) – мстительный

6. to get into a mess (a scrape) (p.75) – попасть в беду

7. to let smb. down (p.77) – подвести к.л., предать

8. to make a clean breast of smth. to smb. (p.80) – облегчить душу, покаяться

9. to be keen on smth. (p.81) – увлекаться чем-то, дорожить чем-то

10. to hush smth. up (p.81) – замалчивать, замять

11. to get smb. out of harm’s way (p.85) – отвлечь кого-либо от дурного пути

12. to send smb. to certain death (p.86) – послать к-л на верную смерть

13. to bring an action for divorce (p.87) – подать в суд на развод

14. to judge smb. accurately (p.88) – точно оценить

15. self-seeking (p.88) – своекорыстный

16. callous (p.88) – черствый, бездушный

Exercises

I Read chapters 22-27

II Look up the pronunciation of the following words:

rouge; jocular; cigarette; cholera; discern; orphanage; tributary; desperation; anguish; inconvenience; subservient; whim; scandal-mongering; hideousness; grievance; enrapture; assurance; laugh; treacherous; gasp; airiness; appreciable; awful; tinged; circumstance; yield; entreaty; exasperation; naughty; vaguely; ominous; notwithstanding; distraught; bravado.

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

IV Make up a situation of your own with the active vocabulary (use from five to ten words or word-combinations)

V Give synonyms or synonymous expressions to the following:

to smother

jocular

to take charge

of one’s own free will

on account of

it’s your own lookout

to have the pluck for smth.

disdain

anguish

I don’t care

to intimidate

blankly

to give smb. away

to do everything in one’s power

If the worst comes to the worst

broad-minded

disagreeable

to control oneself

compassion

to make head or tail out of smth.

to make out smth./smb.

to make up one’s mind

unfair