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1. Now he was … (die) and everything was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.

2. She had suffered badly during the period of … (poor).

3. It was a grey, wintry day, with saddened, dark green fields and an atmosphere … (black) by the smoke of foundries not far off.

4. She took minute pains went through the park in a state bordering on pure … (happy) as if in performing this task she came into a subtle, intimate connection with her mother.

5. Fergusson, being a mere hired …(assist), was slave to the country-side.

6. Now he had died and left them all … (hope) in debt.

7. There remained distinct in his … (conscious), like a vision, the memory of her face, lifted from the tombstone in the churchyard, and looking at him with slow, large, portentous eyes.

8. He stood on the bank, breathing … (heavy).

9. And the bottom was so deeply soft and … (certain) he was afraid of pitching with his mouth underneath.

10. It seemed … (think) long way, and his burden so heavy he felt he would never get to the house.

Grammar Tasks

Choose the correct word.

1. At the back was a small bricked house-yard, and beyond that a big square, gravelled/ gravelling fine and red, and having stables on two sides.

2. For month, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping/ kept the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.

3. She need not pass any more darkly along the main street of the small town, avoiding/ avoided every eye.

4. He slowed down as he walked, watching/ watched her as if spell-bound.

5. She lifted her eyes, feeling/ felt him looking.

6. She need not demean herself any more, going/ gone into the shops and buying/ bought the cheapest food.

7. He finished his duties at the surgery as quickly as might be, hastily filling/ filled up the bottle of the waiting/ waited people with cheap drugs.

8. He hastily climbed the hill and turned across the dark green fields, following/ followed the black cinder-track.

9. In the distance, across a shallow dip in the country, the small town was clustered like smouldering/ smouldered ash, a tower, a spire, a heap of low, raw, extinct houses.

10. His nerves were exciting/ excited and gratifying/ gratified.

11. But as a matter of fact it excited him, the contact with the rough, strongly-feeling people was a stimulant applying/ applied direct to his nerves.

12. He could just make sure of the small black figure moving/ moved in the hollow of the failing day.

13. Roving across the landscape, the doctor’s quick eye detected a figure in black passing/ passed through the gate of the field, down towards the pond.

14. He stood motionless as the small black figure walked slowly and deliberately towards the centre of the pond, very slowly, gradually moving/ moved deeper into the motionless water, and still moving forward as the water got up to her breast.

Complete the sentences with the appropriate pronoun.

anybody 1. Now he was dead and … was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.
nobody 2. Then however brutal and coarse … was, the sense of money had kept her proud, confident.
everything 3. …, however, could shake the curious sullen, animal pride that dominated each member of the family.
everything 4. Why should she answer …?
nothing 5. She thought of …, not even of herself.
nothing 6. … but work, drudgery, constant hastening from dwelling to dwelling among the colliers and the iron-workers.
nothing 7. He stood on the bank, breathing heavily. He could see ….
something 8. She was breathing regularly, her eyes were wide open and as if conscious, but there seemed … missing in her look.

3. Choose the right pronoun:

1. For months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping the home together in penury for her/ herself ineffectual brothers.

2. But so long as there was money, the girl felt her/ herself established, and brutally proud, reserved.

3. Mabel had no associates of her/ herself own sex, after her sister went away.

4. She had loved her/ herself father, too, in a different way, depending upon him, and feeling secure in him/ himself, until at the age of fifty-four he married again.

5. She would always hold the keys of her/ herself own situation.

6. She need not demean her/ herself any more, going into the shops and buying the cheapest food.

7. Some mystical element was touched in him/ himself.

8. He could see the stables and the outbuildings distinctly, as they lay towards him/ himself on the slope.

9. He felt, if he looked away from her, in the thick, ugly falling dusk, he would lose her/ herself altogether.

10. She was conscious in her/ herself, but unconscious of her surroundings.

Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks

1. Answer the questions:

1. Were Mabel’s parents alive?

2. Who helped her to keep the big house?

3. Did the girl have friends?

4. Did she suffer from poverty?

5. Where did she feel infinite security?

6. What happened to Mabel one evening?

7. How did the doctor act in this situation?

2. Discuss the following:

1. The doctor couldn’t swim, he was ill, he was so afraid of dark water in the pond. What helped him to have the courage to rescue Mabel?

2. “Fergusson being a mere hired assistant, was slave to the country.” Why did the author call the doctor a slave?

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Exercises

Pre-reading Tasks

1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:

clayey, towel, gulp, instantaneous, conscious, divest, dive, cushion, extricate, convulsive, thighs, triumphant, murmur, issue, yearning, passion, knee, tangled, patient, honour, violation, stubborn, rhapsodic, effort, inevitable, assurance, steady, ached, doubt, fountain, breast, falter, jeer, alter, vibrating, release, wrap, scullery, voile, blindly.

Vocabulary Tasks

1. Find in the story the English for:

великий ковток; пильно подивитися в очі; знімати одяг з кого-небудь; смертельно боятися; пірнати у ставок; вагатися; промоклий одяг; диванна подушка; визволятися; кінцівка; розкиданий одяг; приводити до тями; танути; прошепотіти у дивному захопленні; сплутане вологе волосся; бути огидним комусь; обнімати коліна; оголені плечі; відчути запах стоячої води; болісне зусилля; глузувати; змінений голос; загорнутися в ковдру; волочитися; побачити на мить; схлипувати.

Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.

extricate clayey unfathomable groan dimly gulp lap stagnant mortally scattered muffled drooped

1. He drank a … himself, and put some into her mouth.

2. He could not bear the smell of the dead, … water, and he was … afraid of his own health.

3. He was afraid now, because he felt dazed, and felt … that her power was stronger than his, in this issue.

4. It was as if she had the life of his body in her hands, and he could not … himself.

5. She saw her clothing lying ….

6. With an inward … he gave way, and let his heart yield towards her.

7. Then, as it were suddenly, he smelt the horrid … smell of that water.

8. He wanted her eyes not to have that terrible, wistful, … look.

9. She sat still, away from him, with her face … aside, and her hands folded in her ….

10. A tumbling, … noise from within the dark house startled him.

Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.

1. Then he re moved her saturated, earthy-smelling clothing, rubbed her dry with a towel, and wrapped her naked in the blankets.

2. Her eyes remained full on him, he seemed to be going dark in his mind, looking back at her help lessly.

3. “No,” he answered truth fully.

4. “I walked in [the pond]. But I went in over head as well.”

5. And she was passionate ly kissing his knees through the wet clothing, passionately and in discriminate ly kissing his knees, his legs, as if un aware of everything.

6. This introduct ion of the personal element was very dis taste ful to him, a violat ion of his profession al honour.

7. In view of the delicate flame which seemed to come from her face like a light, he was power less.

8. Her eyes were now wide with fear, with doubt, the light was dying from her face, a shadow of terrible grey ness was returning.

9. Her eyes were wist ful and un fathoma ble.

10. He watched her relent lessly, as she knew.

11. He went and bent to kiss her, gent ly, passionatel y, with his heart’s pain ful kiss.

Grammar Tasks



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