Владимир Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 3 курс [calibre 2.43.0]

She squealed with excitement.

Katie flushed with pleasure.

7.How weak she must have been!

What a comfort you must have been to your mother!

How he must have loved her in the beginning!

EXERCISES

1. Complete the following sentences using the Speech Patterns:

1.1 led him to the study without.... 2. She turned away without ... . 3. Pete ... than ever. 4. The weather ... than ever. 5. Why would

he ...? 6. Why wouldn't the girl...? 7. She was not clever enough .... 8. She was still young enough ... . 9. The boy laughed as loudly as

... . 10. She couldn't jump as high as ... .11. He grew merry as a cricket and ... . 12. The play was so comic that they ... . 13. How tired

she must...! 14. How they must...!

2. Paraphrase the following sentences using the Speech Patterns:

1. Why should he come bothering you when he is not invited?

2. She disappeared into the kitchen and did not notice the girl.

3. Now John plays the piano better than he ever had. 4. Mary speaks English better than she ever had. 5. Why will he wish to throw

aside such an opportunity? 6. Why do I wish to go to the trouble of looking after him? 7. She was sufficiently clever to get what she

wanted. 8. He was a nice kid sufficiently old to have his driver's license. 9. The boy laughed very noisily when he took a ride on a

merry-go-round. 10. Kate was very pleased and her cheeks became red.

3. Translate the following sentences into English

1. Мальчик отправился на каток, не сказав об этом матери. 2. Он пришел без приглашения и чувствовал себя неловко. 3. В

этих соревнованиях у него было больше, чем когда-либо, преимуществ по сравнению с его соперниками. 4. Сильнее, чем

когда-либо, ему хотелось отправиться в путешествие. 5. С какой стати я стану принимать ее приглашение? Она мне глубоко

несимпатична. 6. С какой стати Том будет щадить твои чувства? Ты сам был нетактичен. 7. Семейная вражда (family feud)

была достаточно глубокой, чтобы все отношения между ними были порваны. 8. Она была достаточно решительна, чтобы

продолжать работу. 9. Кусты были густые, как щетка. 10. Так же как и ты, я не люблю это блюдо. 11. Она выглядела

хорошенькой, словно картинка из иллюстрированного журнала. 12. Сидя перед телевизором, дети покатывались со смеху. 13.

Энн вскрикнула от волнения, когда увидела конверт в почтовом ящике. 14. Как он, должно быть, восхищался этой картиной!

15. Как, должно быть, было тяжело грести против течения!

4. Make up two sentences of your own on each pattern.

5. Make up situations in dialogue form using the Speech Patterns (to be done in pairs).

TEXT FOUR THE FUN THEY HAD

By LAsimov

A professor of biochemistry and a science writer, I.Asimov is well-known as science fiction writer as well. In 1957 he won the Edison Foundation award

for Building Blocks of the Universe, and in 1960 the Howard W.Blakeslee award for The Living River in which he analysed the chemical composition of the blood and related it to other manifestations in our universe, litis also the author of The Intelligent Man's Guide to Sciences, an encyclopedic work covering in brief essay all of science for the layman. Besides all this, Lucky Stars and The Pirates of the Asteroids (1953), The Kingdom of the Sun (1960), The End of Eternity (1962) are only a feWscience fiction books that came from under his pen.

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today Tommy found a real

book!"

It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather 1 told him that there was a

time when all stories were printed on paper.

They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving

the way they were supposed to — on a screen, you know. And then, when they turned back to the page before, it has been the same

words on it that it had been when they read it the first time.

"Gee,"2 said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. 3 Our television screen

must have had a million books on and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away.

"Same with mine," said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't seen as many telebooks 4 as Tommy had. He was thirteen.

She said, "Where did you find it?"

"In my house." He pointed-without looking, because he was busy reading. "In the attic."

"What's it about?"

"School."

Margie was scornful. "School? What's there to write about school? I hate school."

Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in

geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County

Inspector.

He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools, with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an

apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn't know how to put it together again, but he knew all right, and, after

an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions

were asked. That wasn't so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always

had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old and the mechanical teacher calculated the

mark in no time.

The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie's head. He said to her mother, "It's not the little girl's fault, Mrs.

Jones, I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I've slowed it up to an av erage ten

year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory." And he patted Margie's head again.

Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy's

teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

So she said to Tommy. "Why would anyone write about school?"

Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. "Because it's not our kind of school, stupid. 5 This is the old kind of school that they

had hundreds and hundreds years ago." He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, "Centuries ago."

Margie was hurt. "Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that time ago." She read the book over his shoulder for a

while, then said, "Anyway, they had a teacher."

"Sure, they had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man."

"A man? How could a man be a teacher?"