Ex. II, p. 293
1. I'd be delighted
to go on a sea voyage, but my wife has never been a good
sailor, so we can't join you. 2. Last week we made a wonderful trip to the mountains.
It took us four hours by coach. 3. The Italian tour was really exciting. We visited a
number of wonderful towns and then returned to Rome. The journey back to Moscow
by railway took us about three days. 4. It is delightful
to come ashore after a long
voyage and to feel solid ground under one's foot. 5. Many times on his long travels in
the depths of Africa, in the jungle
of the Amazon he faced danger, starvation and
death. 6. At the beginning of the last century going from Petersburg to Moscow was
described as "travel". Now it is but a night's trip by night train, a six-hour trip by day
train or an air voyage of an hour and a half. 7. I'm just reading a very amusing book
about a pleasure party making a Caribbean cruise in somebody's yacht. 8. Young
people are naturally fond of hitchhiking as a way of visiting new places and seeing
things: it is cheap and gives one a feeling of freedom and infinite horizons. 9. I'm
told you're going on a journey/trip to the Far East. 10. They're
planning a tour of
some Baltic resorts. They've a new car, you know. 11. You're looking pale. A trip to
the seaside will do you good.
Ex. VI, p. 294
N i n a : Hello, Alex. I remember somebody told me that you had gone on an
interesting trip to Siberia.
A 1 e x: I really made a wonderful journey to the very heart of Siberia. We went
to Krasnoyarsk by plane and then sailed down the Yenissei on a cargo-ship.
N i n a : And where did you go ashore?
A1 e x: Oh, at some spot you are not likely to find on any map. Well, when we
found
ourselves on the bank, we immediately started for the place where our
expedition was working.
N i n a : Did you go by car?
A l e x : Oh, no! No car could have driven along those paths. We travelled partly
on foot, and in some places went along small rivers and streams in rowing-boats. We
were in spots where no man's foot had stepped before us.
N i n a : How exciting! So you enjoyed the journey, didn't you?
A l e x : Every minute of it, though it was not an easy one.
N i n a : Did you return by air?
A l e x : No, by train. The fact is, I had hardly enough money for the railway fare,
not to say anything of the plane.