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5. courage. 6. prophesy. 7. friend. 10. enthusiasm. 1. stable. 3. necessary. 6. famous. 7. different. 8. active. Unit II. COMPOSITION
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5. courage
a) His friends tried to ____________ him from attempting the dangerous climb.
b) She ___________ stood in the way of escaping robbers.
c) His parents gave him a lot of _____________ in his studies.
6. prophesy
a) I am not a ____________ and I would not like to make a _____________ on whether the world can survive this age of nuclear weapons.
b) What he wrote in 1930 was ____________. Much of he described has come true.
7. friend
a) The ____________ between the two soon developed into love.
b) In London she was __________ by a rich woman who looked after her and helped her.
c) The desert is a dangerous, __________ place.
8. sense
a) He felt a strange, painful ___________ in his back.
b) Even the most ___________ person ought to appreciate the beauty of this music.
c) What an idiotic, ______________ thing to go!
9. form
a) It is especially important for children to have love and affection in their ___________ years.
b) The slight _______________ in his left hand was corrected by surgery.
c) The police are considering the _____________ of a new anti-drugs unit.
10. enthusiasm
a) They threw themselves _______________ into the new project.
b) He’s real golf ______________. He loves the game.
c) They didn’t really ___________ over my idea. In fact there was some opposition.
C.
1. stable
a) To ___________ the boat in rough sea, we redistributed the weight.
b) Between 1860 and 1900 the country had a number of revolutions and uprisings. It was a time of great ____________.
c) The exchange rate is going up and down dramatically. It’s very ___________ at the moment.
2. dead
a) The increasing number of ____________ in traffic accidents is alarming.
b) Be careful! That’s a _______________ poison!
c) The doctor gave him an injection to _____________ the pain.
3. necessary
a) We regret that the present economic difficulties will ___________ a reduction in our work force.
b) I sympathize with his point of view, but I don’t always ____________ agree with him.
c) He lives very simply, with just the basic __________ of life.
4. real
a) I think it’s a bit ____________ to hope that world peace can be gained so easily.
b) He spends all his time in romantic daydreams.
c) He’s lost touch with _________.
d) Ladies and gentlemen, I am a ____________ and I think we must face facts.
5. false
a) She was accused of __________ the financial accounts.
b) It is a __________ to say he did it when you know he didn’t.
c) The _____________ of his argument was obvious to everyone.
6. famous
a) The _____________ of the Beatles soon spread outside Britain.
b) The day of the massacre will go down in history as a terrible, _________ day. It was a day of _________________.
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7. different
a) I’m afraid I have to _____________. I don’t agree with you at all.
b) Politeness is one thing. Real kindness is another. You must learn to ____________ between the two.
c) We get along pretty well, although of course we have our __________ from time to time.
8. active
a) The firm maintained that the strike was organized by a group of political ____________.
b) The fire-prevention system is _____________ by any small increase in temperature.
c) It is quite safe to go near the volcano. It has been ___________ for years.
Unit II. COMPOSITION
Exercise 1
Analyse the structure of the compound nouns in the following sentences. Translate these sentences into Russian.
1. His chin was propped on a spreading cravat which was as broad and as long as a banknote.
2. The plane bounced along the runway.
3. At last the polling-day arrived, and Bertha waited anxiously for the result.
4. “Who is she? ” Rosemary, laughing, leaned against the door and said: “I picked her up in Curzon Street. Really. She’s real pick-up”.
5. I’ll tell him so to his face if you bring him. He’s a no-good.
6. As he looked through the deal chest-of-drawers for his clean shirts, he found that more than half his clothes had gone.
7. The smoking-room was empty when I arrived.
Exercise 2
Translate the following sentences into Russian. Define which of the compound nouns are idiomatic and non-idiomatic. Sometimes compound nouns in these sentences are used in phraseological units. Does this fact obligatorily make such nouns idiomatic?
1. He was a great hand at leg-pulling.
2. You can’t fill pails with a teaspoon.
3. Reinhardt began to see day-light.
4. If the guy didn’t know shorthand, I would fire him right now.
5. It is generally accepted that any future space-ship will be rocket driven.
6. His name-calling, we’ll agree, is in bat taste.
7. He looked down at his narrow shoes polished with bull’s-blood.
8. This was a thunder-bolt out of a clear sky.
9. He showed him a remarkable collection of finely painted French portraits on white mother-of-pearl.
10. She flew around to the play-yard.
11. She charmed by her grace, her common-sense, her pliancy.
12. A nice shake-up in the bus never improved his appetite.
13. Then came the news that June had gone to the seaside with old Jolyon.
14. The fence had three coats of whitewash on it.
15. Find a drive-in, will you? I’m starved.
16. That June would have trouble with the fellow was as plain as a pikestaff.
Exercise 3
Paraphrase the following sentences so that they should not contain “noun + noun” compounds.
1. I was aware of the distant drumming of the guns out towards Hoa Binh. In the day they were drowned in traffic-noises, but everything was quiet now except for the ring of bicycle-bells.
2. I got up to go. He came with me to the door scattering cigarette-ash.
3. He gazed at a milk-bar across the street.
4. And at three-thirty the mortar-fire will begin.
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Exercise 4
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