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Exercises and Assignments on the Text
Assignment № 1
Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them
in the sentences of your own:
влюбиться –
быть наравне с ней –
требовали длительной подготовки –
смотреть слова в словаре –
исписывал страницу за страницей –
набрался мужества –
заботился о
себе сам –
не хочу обидеть –
исправляя его произношение –
полное собрание сочинений Шекспира –
говорить правильно –
служил письменным столом –
не терял ни минуты –
списки слов –
прикреплять к стене –
возвращать рукописи –
день за днем –
заложил пальто –
Assignment № 2
Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them
in the sentences of your own:
make a career –
to be greatly surprised –
dare to do smth. –
be afraid of doing smth. –
a book on philosophy (art) –
become interested in smth. –
get red (pale) –
do smth. in return –
go on doing smth. –
Assignment № 3
Answer the following questions:
1) What made Martin begin to read and study?
2) Using the text prove that Martin read books without any system.
3) Reading was
hard work for him, wasn't it? What did Martin do to make it easier?
4) What did Ruth advise Martin when they met?
5) What did Martin tell Ruth about his family?
6) What were Ruth's remarks about Martin's grammar? Did they hurt him?
7) Why did the young man have to go to sea again?
8) In what way did Shakespeare's books help Martin to educate himself?
9) What idea came to him? What did he want to write about?
10) Describe Martin's room. Prove that while writing stories he continued to educate himself.
11) Why do you think publishers sent his manuscripts back?
12) What happened one day?
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