Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.
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20. ЪТЗаполните пропуски предлогами:
1. The advantage.......being young is that one has got a lot.......time to correct his mistakes. 2. Illness turned
this woman.......an elderly angry thing. 3. Our neighbours were looking very carefully ....... their sick mother
.......autumn, but.......spring she died. 4.......which doctor has she been treated.......pneumonia? 5. The
solution.......this problem has nothing to do.......our business. 6. Our secretary always complains.......being
badly treated....... her colleagues. 7. Is your father looking forward.......retiring .......his office? 8. Do you
recognize these two people moving.......us? 9. A man nodded.......me, and I recognized him.......once.
10. Nobody can stand this woman though she belongs.......a good society. 11. You eat only hamburgers, let's
have fishburgers.......a change. 12. Do you really prefer being treated.......your colleagues.......this to
looking.......another job? 13. As a matter......fact, all the churches.......this one have been destroyed.......
our small town. 14. Who is.......such a solution to this problem? 15. Neither specialists nor people.....
administration insist.......destroying this old building. 16. Are you looking forward.....permission to go.....
abroad? 17. Why can't you keep......getting.....trouble all the time? 18. Who insists......being treated .... this
doctor? 19. Are you interested.....having more experience.....this field? 20. Who complained .... you ....
disadvantages .... this project? 21. Our success often depends.....having enough knowledge.
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EXERCISES
20. 38 Составьте ситуации со следующими словами и словосочетаниями:
1. to look confident, to be a good specialist, to solve problems, to be human, the entire company, to treat, to retire, not to give permission, to give a hint, to stay at the company.
2. to be treated for, to feel bad, to breathe hard, to have temperature, to look after, an advantage, a disadvantage, to whistle, to recover.
3. to have a nightmare, to be bom in another dimension, to be turned into, to have nothing to do with, to relax, for a change, to have an advantage, to wake up, to feel happy.
20. 39 Ответьте на следующие вопросы по тексту:
1. Did either Peter Horn or his wife imagine that such a thing could happen to them? 2. What were they talking quietly about? 3. How soon did Peter Horn expect his wife to return from the hospital? 4. How did Peter Horn feel in a waiting room? 5. What kind of person was the doctor named Wolcott? 6. How did he look like when he entered the waiting room an hour later? 7. Which idea came to Peter Horn's mind? 8. What did the doctor answer to his questions? 9. What brought the entire hospital out into the corridors? 10. What did Peter Horn see lying on a low table? 11. Did Peter Horn believe that it was his child? 12. How was the child bom? 13. Why did doctor Wolcott tell Peter Horn that they would be glad to look- after the child at the Institute? 14. What did Peter Horn answer him? 15'. How did Polly Ann react to what she heard about the child? 16. Why did Peter Нот praise his wife as they were leaving the hospital? 17. When were Peter Horn and his wife allowed to take the child home? 18. Who looked after the child at night? 19. What was'the problem doctor Wolcott and his colleagues had been working for a long time at? 20. How did they solve that problem? 21. Why did Polly agree at once to be put into another dimension? 22.T4ow did doctor Wolcott explain to Peter Horn what would happen to them in another dimension? 23. Why did Peter Horn decide to follow his wife in spite of all he had heard from the doctor? 24. What was he thinking about lying on the table before the experiment? 25. What happened after it was over? 26. How did the child look like in the eyes of his parents? 27. How did Peter Horn and his wife look like in tfie eyes of doctor Wolcott and his assistant? 28. Were Peter Horn and his wife happy? 29. What is the idea of this story?
20. 40 Основываясь на тексте, выразите свое согласие или несогласие с данными положениями:
1. Peter Нот dreamed of being the father of a small blue pyramid.
2. Peter Horn was very nervous sitting in a waiting room, because he was not sure that his wife was in good hands.
3. Dr. Wolcott looked very happy when he came to the waiting room an hour later.
4. The «something» that had happened brought the entire hospital out into the corridors.
5. All that happened on the 1 of April, that's why it turned out to be a joke.
6. Dr. Wolcott agreed to destroy the pyramid at once.
7.Dr. Wolcott explained to Peter Horn that his child was bom into another dimension.
8. Peter Horn refused to take the child home.
9. Polly Ann Horn refused to see her baby.
10. Peter Horn was always busy, and he couldn't look after his child.
11. Dr. Wolcoot and his colleagues managed to solve the problem of bringing the child out of dimension he was in.
12. Peter Нот and his wife didn't agree to go into another dimension.
