Explain and develop the following ideas from the text. 1) “People living alone get used to loneliness”.

1) “People living alone get used to loneliness”.

2) “Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convinced of such man-made crimes as ‘cruelty’”.

3) “… many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental”.

4) “The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it”.

4. What is so peculiar in the arrangement of the 10 chapter? Why did the author use such type of narration? What Stylistic Devices are used to reinforce the readers impression?

Make up a short summary of the events.

Unit 10 (chapters 13-16)

Find the following word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

- a gesture of renunciation

-to love sb without reservation

-convalescence of sth

-to anchor to sb

-to hound sb out of conscience

- a long dream of war

-the versatility of madness

-to knock sb sideways

Make up your own sentences with these phrases.

Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“They started back with a hot sorrow streaming down upon them - … they would again resume the ré gime relaxed a year before”.

3. Who is characterized by the following statements?

1) “They were poster-like, formidable in their snow costumes”.

2) “She was a tall, fine-looking woman, deeply engaged in being almost thirty She relished the foretaste of death, prefigured by the catastrophes of friends”.

3) “He was a handsome, promising boy”.

Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

1) He decided to let Baby speak to him, as one often lets women raise their voices over issues that are not in their hands“”.

2) “It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpy once that is meddled with – though some of them paid the fact a cautious lip service”.

3) “Many women suffered before they mistook themselves for men… In any case you mustn’t confuse single failure with a final defeat”.

Retell the events as if you were one of the participants of the action.

Make up a short summary of the chapters.

Unit 11 (chapters 17 – 20)

Find the following word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

-to feel a sharp wince

-a lesion of enthusiasm

-to restrain

-to be pastiches of sth

- to conceal sb’s fatigue

-to lower the lights for love

-to take a few shots at love

- a sort of exalted quiet