Logical English
I said, “This horse, sir, will you shoe?”
And soon the horse was shod.
I said, “This deed, sir, will you do?”
And soon the deed was dod!
I said, “This stick, sir, will you break?”
At once the stick he broke.
I said, “This coat, sir, will you make?”
And soon the coat he moke!
Exercise IV. Translate into Russian/Ukrainian and comment on the usage of words from your Active Vocabulary:
A.
1.The night was stormy over the lake. A scudding rain, turning into sleet, swept the deck. Notwithstanding his fur coat and his muffler, Ashenden was shivering and at the end chilled to the bone. 2. When he heard the door hinges creak, he gave a start and quickly reached for the pillow. 3. “Well,” said Nancy, “then I saw the body and – ” she broke off and shuddered with disgust. 4. “Don’t you dare say such things, such impossible things!” cried Van Goot, his lips trembling, his eyes almost goggled with terror. 5. In a couple of minutes Harry Bennett came back and said: “I must apologize, Susan, but I have to leave. The baby-sitter says my daughter is ill. She has a fever and complains of a stomachache. ” 6. Owing to a sore throat I can’t give any more lectures this week. 7. “She said she appreciated my help,” I muttered. “If she wasn’t acting,” snapped Dolores. “ Does that hurt? You love her, don’t you?” 8. He realized that she could not possibly say “yes” with all those people staring at them, but her abrupt and firm refuse even to talk to him was really painful. 9. “In your present condition the best medicine is a good long quiet journey and a lot of good cuisine and still more of a good company. I do think that is what you need – and nothing more,” said the doctor, giving me a sympathetic glance of his candid blue eyes. 10. What is the medicine for unrequited love? And can there be one? 11. “Don’t be so nervous,” said my medical man. “There’s nothing wrong with you except you take everything to heart so much.” 12. On the 8th of May 1945, the leaders of the Nazi Germany were compelled to sign immediate and unconditional surrender to the Allies (the USSR, the USA, the UK, and France). 13. Low wages and hard conditions of labour have always been the main causes of strikes and other actions of protest in industry. 14. “You will forget this little incident and you will never try to improve your memory of it,” said Senator Hopkins. “This is the ultimate condition of our support of your electoral campaign.”
B.
15. At last Lady Eleanor arrived, almost an hour later than she had been expected, in her luxurious carriage with two footmen. 16. You will never find such a wide selection of footwear as offered by this shop. 17. The other visitor was a young man, age about twenty, five feet nine, thin as a broom straw. 18. When the young policeman had reached the top of the last hill, he stopped and looked down where the old woman’s house stood at the foot of the hill. 19. If I were you, I would never have pardoned Billy’s inappropriate behaviour at that party last Saturday. You must be head over heels in love with him. 20. Then Ellen thoroughly searched the drawers of the bureau. In the second of them, just at the very bottom of a thick heap of papers, there was a small wooden box containing, as she hoped, the key to the mystery. 21. You should take these pills exactly as prescribed, avoiding alcohol during the course of treatment. 22. I would like you to prolong your subscription to our paper for another six months. 23. The inscription on the tombstone was hardly intelligible and seemed to be made in a language unknown to us. 24. The fat man was bare-headed, and there was a reasonable amount of pale salmon-coloured hair on his head. 25. It was late November. The temperature dropped to below 40 degrees but it had not snowed yet and the trees stood bare, provoking melancholy and irresistible desire to spend the whole time sitting at the fire, half-dreaming half-nodding. 26. What I need is naked facts, not your comments nor conclusions. 27. The blow had been dealt so professionally that for a good minute or two he could barely see anything and heard practically nothing but his own heart pounding wildly. 28. From where we stopped we could already see that the poor creature was nude from head to toe and tied fast to a tree that stood leafless in solitude at the side of the road. The road had not been used for long and that made the only tree look particularly lifeless – the man tied to it seemed almost as lifeless.
C.
29. “What have I got in the end?” thought Collins. An empty room with bare walls, wild memories, vacant stare of the eyes once full of life, and an infinite emptiness ahead of him. Anything else? 30. “Thomas Cornby? Tom? Why, I’d never have expected to see you again, especially to see you here. Someone told me you had moved to one of those new estates on Artemis.” Mr. Larraby was chatting, really excited, recollecting those times past and gone when he and Tom used to run barefoot around the old farm of Uncle James’. 31. “Do you?” Lily O’Shanter cut in indignantly. “You deprive your servants of most elementary rights granted by God Almighty to the humblest of His creations. In fact, you refuse them the very right to worship God. Really, this is more than any human soul can bear! And you pretend not to understand the reasons of their revolt!” 32. The king was in fury. He was not used to meeting with a refusal, and whose refusal at that! She shall pay dearly for the unpleasant moments she made him go through. 33. I don’t actually refuse to do what you ask for. I just want to estimate all possible consequences before we get started. 34. “After being at a boarding school for five years she gave up some of her dreadful habits, but I’m sorry to say she also proved to be far more spoiled than any of us had thought,” Miss Young said in a strongly disapproving voice. 35. “What about going out one of these days?” he asked hopefully. “ Just like in good old times, you and me together.” – “Well, you see, I wouldn’t like you to think I refuse, but my work now keeps me busy more than ever. I’ll call if I really have the slightest chance,” she said in a trembling voice. 36. “People like you hinder the progress of mankind. Just think of the man who was the first to taste German sausages!” exclaimed Harris. 37. Nick seemed the least likely person to fail at the examination in physical culture. 38. Why should you choose of all the reasons the most unlikely one and try to make me believe that nonsense? 39. Tom and Prince Edward stood side by side looking in the mirror: their likeness was amazing. 40. Unlike other Celtic tribes, the Britons wore long flowing moustaches, which they painted blue before battles to scare the enemy.
Exercise V. Paraphrase the following sentences using words from Essential Vocabulary (p. 53):
1. The night was cold and Edward Coke felt an unpleasant feeling as the wind cut like a knife through his thin prison uniform. 2. The monster looked fearful. Annie felt a tremor run through her body at the sight of it. 3. After her new advanced aerobics class Marilyn felt every muscle of her body vibrating with exhaustion. 4. Then, all of a sudden, Rodney heard – or thought he heard – almost noiseless steps just behind his back. It was so unexpected that he made an involuntary movement of fear. 5. You should try not to mix with these people because their reputation is more than doubtful. 6. The situation on the road was dangerous after it had been snowing the whole night, but our driver somehow managed not to collide with the car that emerged twenty feet ahead of us from nowhere, as far as we could judge. 7. “What are your complaints?” the doctor asked tiredly and with no obvious interest. – “Nothing special,” Sue answered promptly. “Only I can’t sleep a wink every other day and I too often experience that unpleasant feeling in my head.” 8. The house was announced for sale. Jim’s heart sank as he roamed about silent corridors, dusty staircases, rooms devoid of furniture as well as of wallpaper – everything so familiar and yet unexpectedly so strange. 9. You think you’re tough walking like that, hatless, when the temperature is but a few degrees above zero? 10. Some people think that children can strengthen their health walking on the grass with no footwear on. 11. To work at this factory isn’t easy. You have to get up early and the break is too short. The shop doesn’t have central heating so it’s rather cold there in winter, and in summer it’s quite stuffy because of poor ventilation. 12. “Nothing is wrong with me,” said Richard. “I have an ideal blood pressure, a perfect heart, I’m in excellent shape.” 13. TB is a serious disease, and we in Ukraine have nowadays a disastrous number of people affected by it, a real pest. 14. Influenza is a very common disease that spreads easily and quickly. 15. High temperature of the body is a symptom of illness characteristic of various disorders. 16. The stream was rather narrow, not more than thirty yards wide. 17. There was a nice nook at the bottom of the hill, with velvet green grass on both banks of a tiny brook and some old oaks to provide enough shade for us and our tired horses. 18. Most universities in West Europe as well as in the USA have special faculties to train doctors. 19. One of the oldest sciences is the knowledge of various diseases and the art of curing them. 20. “Shaitan has invented a lot of diseases, but Allah the Almighty has invented just as many treatments for them,” an Arab saying goes. 21. After the Great Depression had struck America millions of people, formerly belonging to the middle class, had to lead wretched lives, and conditions under which poor people existed were more than pitiful. 22. Captain Craig was there in an instant, his sword already out of its sheath, his pistol in his left hand. 23. Shameless robbers stripped Father Laurentius of all his clothes, leaving him penniless and nude amidst the vast plains of Oklahoma. 24. Robert Jordan was waiting, the SMG steady in his hands. The leg gave him terrible pangs as it was getting feverish, but that was unimportant. What really mattered was not to lose consciousness before the soldiers came close enough for him to start shooting. 25. It is a real torture for him to recollect the wartime. You know, he stayed alive – the only one alive out of one hundred and twenty-one officers and men the company consisted of. There were two others, but they were as good as dead, and anyway they did not last long. 26. The captain of a ship fell ill during a voyage. The surgeon, having examined him, kept silent, lost in thought. “Hey, doc,” said the captain cheerfully, “thinking what medicine to choose?” – “No,” replied the other, “just wondering if there’s anyone else on board who knows navigation.” 27. You should act exactly as your written instructions go – you aren’t expected to improvise, not in this case. 28. A traveller came to the hotel late at night and asked for a room to sleep in. 29. I was not able to get a ticket, but I have arranged everything with assistant manager. Go straight up to him and he’ll find you a seat that won’t be occupied. 30. “Now, gentlemen, will you excuse me,” said the manager in a wary voice. “The only thing I can promise is to inform you as soon as we have some job for you here. Set?”
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