II.Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them in the sentences of your own: rise above the noise, be generous to smb., a best-selling novelist,
inquire briskly, have an opportunity to do smth., be familiar, keep on
doing smth., admit defeat, have smth. accepted, turn over the pages,
read aloud, demand, insist on smth., announce proudly, make smb.
stay, answer uneasily, be forced on smb.
III.Questions on the text. 1.
Why did Mr. Oslow try to get into the house through the back door?
2.
Who stopped him?
3.
What did the woman want Mr. Oslow to do?
4.
Why was the living- room noisy?
5.
What were the people in the room doing?
6.
What did Mr. Oslow think of his wife's attitude towards him?
7.
Was it different from her usual attitude?
8.
What questions did the reporters ask Mr. Oslow?
9.
Why did Mr. Oslow say that he was going to read the book just
then?
10.
Were his words a sensation? Prove it.
11.
What did he remember sitting in his study?
12.
Why did he think that his defeat as a writer was definite now?
13.
What did he discover when he began reading his wife's novel?
14.
Why did Mr. Oslow give an answer to the reporter's questions?
15. What did he feel?
16. Why was his wife terrified at his answer?
