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1. «Success is the child of audacity». (Benjamin Disraeli)
«Успех — дитя смелости». (Бенджамин Дизраэли)
2. «We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light». (Plato)
«Можно с лёгкостью простить ребёнка, который боится темноты. Настоящая трагедия жизни — когда взрослые люди боятся света». (Платон)
3. «It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change». (Charles Darwin)
«Выживает не самый сильный и не самый умный, а тот, кто лучше всех приспосабливается к изменениям». (Чарльз Дарвин)
4. «I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions». (Stephen Covey)
Я не продукт моих обстоятельств. Я продукт моих решений. (Стивен Кови)
5. «You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough». (Mae West)
«Мы живём один раз, но если правильно распорядиться жизнью, то и одного раза достаточно». (Мэй Уэст)
6. «The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why». (Mark Twain)
Два самых важных дня в вашей жизни: день, когда вы родились, и день когда поняли зачем. (Марк Твен)
7. «Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened». (Dr. Seuss)
«Не плачь, потому что это закончилось, улыбнись, потому что это было». (Доктор Сьюз)
8. «There are no shortcuts to any place worth going». (Helen Keller)
«К достойной цели нет коротких путей». (Хелен Келлер)
9. «Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm». (Winston Churchill)
«Успех — это умение двигаться от неудачи к неудаче, не теряя энтузиазма». (Уинстон Черчилль)
10. «Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language». (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
«Никогда не смейтесь над человеком, который говорит на ломаном английском. Это значит, что он знает и другой язык». (Х. Джексон Браун — младший)
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It was evening when I came to the village. The moon had not yet risen. Presently, within two hours or less, it would top the eastern ridge of the further mountains and give light to the whole sky. They were waiting, the people from the valley. There must have been three hundred or more, waiting there in groups beside the huts. All of them were armed, some with rifles, with grenades, others, more primitive, with picks and axes. They had kindled fires, on the village track between the huts, and had brought provisions too. They stood or sat before the fires eating and drinking, smoking and talking. Some of them had dogs, held tightly on a leash.
The owner of the first hut stood by the door with his son. They too were armed. The boy had a pick and a knife thrust in his belt. The man watched me with his sullen, stupid face.
«Your friend is dead,» he said. «He has been dead these many hours.»
I pushed past him and went into the living-room of the hut. Candles had been lit. One at the head of the bed, one at the foot. I bent over Victor and took his hand. The man had lied to me. Victor was breathing still. When he felt me touch his hand, he opened his eyes.
«Did you see her?» he asked.
«Something told me you would,» he said. «Lying here, I felt that it would happen. She’s my wife, and I’ve loved her all these years, but you only have been allowed to see her. Too late, isn’t it, to be jealous now?»
The candlelight was dim. He could not see the shadows by the door, nor hear the movement and the whispering without.
«Did you give her my letter?» he said.
«She has it,» I answered. «She told you not to worry, not to be anxious. She is all right. Everything is well with her.»
Victor smiled. He let go my hand.
«So it’s true,» he said, «all the dreams I had of Monte Verità. She is happy and contented and she will never grow old, never lose her beauty. Tell me, her hair, her eyes, her smile — were they still the same?»
«Just the same,» I said. «Anna will always be the most beautiful woman you or I have ever known.»
He did not answer. And as I waited there, beside him, I heard the sudden blowing of a horn, echoed by a second and a third. I heard the restless movement of the men outside in the village, as they shouldered their weapons, kicked out the fires and gathered together for the climb. I heard the dogs barking and the men laughing, ready now, excited. When they had gone I went and stood alone in the deserted village, and I watched the full moon rising from the dark valley.
ON DECEMBER THE third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Until then the autumn had been mellow, soft. The leaves had lingered on the trees, golden red, and the hedge-rows were still green. The earth was rich where the plough had turned it.
Nat Hocken, because of a war-time disability, had a pension and did not work full-time at the farm. He worked three days a week, and they gave him the lighter jobs: hedging, thatching, repairs to the farm buildings.
Although he was married, with children, his was a solitary disposition; he liked best to work alone. It pleased him when he was given a bank to build up, or a gate to mend at the far end of the peninsula, where the sea surrounded the farm land on either side. Then, at midday, he would pause and eat the pasty that his wife had baked for him, and sitting on the cliff’s edge would watch the birds. Autumn was best for this, better than spring. In spring the birds flew inland, purposeful, intent; they knew where they were bound, the rhythm and ritual of their life brooked no delay. In autumn those that had not migrated overseas but remained to pass the winter were caught up in the same driving urge, but because migration was denied them followed a pattern of their own. Great flocks of them came to the peninsula, restless, uneasy, spending themselves in motion; now wheeling, circling in the sky, now settling to feed on the rich new-turned soil, but even when they fed it was as though they did so without hunger, without desire. Restlessness drove them to the skies again.
Black and white, jackdaw and gull, mingled in strange partnership, seeking some sort of liberation, never satisfied, never still. Flocks of starlings, rustling like silk, flew to fresh pasture, driven by the same necessity of movement, and the smaller birds, the finches and the larks, scattered from tree to hedge as if compelled.
Nat watched them, and he watched the sea-birds too. Down in the bay they waited for the tide. They had more patience. Oyster-catchers, redshank, sanderling and curlew watched by the water’s edge; as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea-birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.
Perhaps, thought Nat, munching his pasty by the cliff’s edge, a message comes to the birds in autumn, like a warning. Winter is coming. Many of them perish. And like people who, apprehensive of death before their time, drive themselves to work or folly, the birds do likewise.
The birds had been more restless than ever this fall of the year, the agitation more marked because the days were still. As the tractor traced its path up and down the western hills, the figure of the farmer silhouetted on the driving-seat, the whole machine and the man upon it would be lost momentarily in the great cloud of wheeling, crying birds. There were many more than usual, Nat was sure of this. Always, in autumn, they followed the plough, but not in great flocks like these, nor with such clamour.
Nat remarked upon it, when hedging was finished for the day. «Yes,» said the farmer, «there are more birds about than usual; I’ve noticed it too. And daring, some of them, taking no notice of the tractor. One or two gulls came so close to my head this afternoon I thought they’d knock my cap off! As it was, I could scarcely see what I was doing, when they were overhead and I had the sun in my eyes. I have a notion the weather will change. It will be a hard winter. That’s why the birds are restless.»
Nat, tramping home across the fields and down the lane to his cottage, saw the birds still flocking over the western hills, in the last glow of the sun. No wind, and the grey sea calm and full. Campion in bloom yet in the hedges, and the air mild. The farmer was right, though, and it was that night the weather turned. Nat’s bedroom faced east. He woke just after two and heard the wind in the chimney. Not the storm and bluster of a sou’ westerly gale, bringing the rain, but east wind, cold and dry. It sounded hollow in the chimney, and a loose slate rattled on the roof. Nat listened, and he could hear the sea roaring in the bay. Even the air in the small bedroom had turned chilclass=»underline» a draught came under the skirting of the door, blowing upon the bed. Nat drew the blanket round him, leant closer to the back of his sleeping wife, and stayed wakeful, watchful, aware of misgiving without cause.
Then he heard the tapping on the window. There was no creeper on the cottage walls to break loose and scratch upon the pane. He listened, and the tapping continued until, irritated by the sound, Nat got out of bed and went to the window. He opened it, and as he did so something brushed his hand, jabbing at his knuckles, grazing the skin. Then he saw the flutter of the wings and it was gone, over the roof, behind the cottage.
It was a bird, what kind of bird he could not tell. The wind must have driven it to shelter on the sill.
Put the verb in brackets into the Passive Voice.
1. My new computer (deliver) tomorrow.
2. Teachers ought to (pay) a higher salary.
3. A new drug for cancer (develop) by scientists now.
4. Her purse (steal) on the bus some days ago.
5. A new underground station (complete) by Christmas.
6. The old building (pull) down recently.
7. A lot of new houses (build) in the provinces at the present moment.
8. This ancient settlement (find) by archaeologists before the war.
9. 
Thousands of rare animals (kill) every year.
10. The day before yesterday we (invite) to the restaurant by Tom Jenkins.
11. The letter and the parcel (post) tomorrow.
12. Margaret (know) to be a very industrious person.
13. In Greece the Olympic Games (hold) once in four years.
14. The Tower of London (build) by William the Conqueror in 1078 as a castle and palace.
15. This story (tell) by Charles Dickens.
16. The old man (take) to the hospital.
17. Look! The bridge (repair).
18. The problem (study) for three years, but they haven’t got any results.
19. All the students (invite) to the party.
20. Mr. Snowdon (interview) at the moment.
21. The salad already (make).
22. The book (discuss) yet.
23. One of our windows (break) by the wind last night.
24. The pre-war education and material base of the University (restore) at the end of the 1950.
25. A new University building (construct) in the center of the city.
26. Highly qualified specialists (train) at numerous departments and faculties of the University.
27. None of the goals in education (achieve) quickly or easily.
28. Much discussion (hold) now about quality of education and its influence on life quality.
29. Ecological problems (give) much attention to lately.
30. He told me that he (offer) a well-paid job at a publishing house.
10.Put the verb into the Active Voice or the Passive Voice.
1. It is a big plant. Four hundred people (employ) there.
2. Water (cover) most of the Earth’s surface.
3. The park gates (lock) at 6.30 p.m. every evening.
4. The parcel (post) before Christmas and it (arrive) only yesterday.
5. The ship (sink) quickly but fortunately everybody (rescue).
6. Brian’s parents (die) when he was very young. He and his sister (bring) up by their grandparents.
7. While I was on holiday, my camera (steal) from my hotel room.
8. I (take) these photographs in Paris.
9. I (bear) in Rome but I (grow) up in the north of England.
10. They (appoint) a new director by the end of the week.
MODAL VERBS
| I must hurry. I must warn him of the danger. Я должен торопиться, я обязан предупредить его об опасности. | duty, obligation (необходимость, моральная обязанность) |
| We have to carry out this experiment two times. Мы должны провести этот эксперимент два раза. | necessity, duty (необходимость, вызванная внутр. обстоятельствами) |
| The meeting is to take place at 5 p. m. Совещание должно состояться в 5 вечера. | plan, agreement (необходимость, вытекающая из заранее намеченного плана) |
| I cancarry his heavy bag. Я смогу нести эту тяжелую сумку. | ability, capability (возможность выполнения действия благодаря физич. или умствен. способностям) |
| He should work harder. Ему следует работать усердно. | advice (совет) |
| You may use dictionaries. Вы можете пользоваться словарями. | permission, request (разрешение) |
1. Give the Past Simple Tense:
1. Hecan speakEnglish quite well.
2. He is to beat home at 7 o’clock.
3. She has to workat home today.
4. They must bevery attentive at the lessons.
2. Complete the following sentences according to the models:
Model I: I have missed many lessons and now I have to work very hard.
The results of their experiments were bad, they had to repeat them.
1. He has worked very hard this month, he . a little now.
2. This substance is very dirty, if you want to use it, you . . . before the experiment.
3. They used analytical balances as they . . . very minute quantities.
4. The water is very cold, you . . . before drinking it.
Model II:I cannot attend the lecture as I am to be at home at six.
1. Don’t be late, the meeting . at five sharp.
2. He . his research work by the end of this year, that’s why he is so busy.
3. The temperature . to 100°C if you want to finish your experiment in time.
4. Don’t you know that she . at three, it will take her an hour to get here.
3. Fill in the blanks with to have to or to be to:
1. I can’t go with them as I . (to be) at the Institute at half past nine.
2. If you want to understand this phenomenon better you . . . (to look through) some articles devoted to this problem.
3. As this question is not solved the meeting . (to be put off).
4. At ten a.m. he . (to make a report), I think it will be interesting to listen to him.
5. As he made many mistakes in his last work he . (to rewrite) it.
4. Use can or be able to. Sometimes it is possible to use either; sometimes only be able to is possible.
Model:George has travelled a lot. He can (or is able to) speak four languages.
I haven’t been able to sleep very well recently.
1. Tom . drive but he hasn’t got a car.
2. I can’t understand Martin. I’ve never . understand him.
3. I used to . stand on my head but I can’t do it now.
4. Ask Ann about your problem. She should . help you.
5. Complete the sentence with could.
Model:I can’t sing now but I could sing very well when I was a child.
1. He can’t play tennis very well now but he . quite well when he was younger.
2. She can’t run very fast now but when she was at school she . faster than anyone else.
3. I can’t swim very far these days but ten years ago I . from one side of the lake to the other.
6. Complete a sentence withcould, was/were able to orcouldn’t.
Model:My grandfather was very clever. He could (or was able to) speak five languages.
I looked everywhere for the book but I couldn’t find it.
The fire spread quickly but everyone was able to escape.
1. He had hurt his leg, so he . walk very well.
2. She wasn’t at home when I phoned but I . contact her at her office.
3. I looked very carefully and I . see a figure in the distance.
4. They didn’t have any tomatoes in the first shop I went to, but I . get some in the next shop.
5. My grandmother loved music. She . play the piano very well.
6. The boy fell into the river but fortunately we . rescue him.