A. Read the following passages and choose the correct key word to complete the idioms. Translate the passages into Ukrainian.

1. At last, in the further edge of that town I saw a small funeral procession -just a family and a few friends following a coffin – no priest; a funeral without bell, book or ____________ (candlelight / candle).

(From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by M. Twain)

2. It was indeed a cause for rejoicing that in disposing of their personal enemies they had done an important service to the Church. They proved thus that it was in point of fact possible to ___________ (serve /save) God and Mammon.

(From Then and Now by W. S. Maugham)

3.....The surgeons of the town did what their poor science suggested to bring life back to the girl's paralyzed limb. At last they admitted that they could do nothing. It was an ___________________ (action/ act) of God.

(From Catalina by W. S. Maugham)

4. Since the nuns were busy from morning till night with a hun­dred duties Kitty saw little of them but at the services in the bare, humble chapel. On her first day the Mother ___ (Super / Superior), catching sight of her seated at the back behind the girls on the benches according to their ages, stopped and spoke to her.

(From The Painted Veil by W. S. Maugham)

5. A Man lying at the point of death called his wife to his bedside and said: Give me one last proof of your fidelity. In my desk you will find a crimson _______________ (cable / candle). Swear to me that while it is in existence you will not remarry." She swore and he died. At the funeral the Woman stood holding a lighted crimson candle till it was wasted entirely away.

(From The Crimson Candle by A. Bierce)

Women are subject to two defects, curiosity and vanity. They lead fair creatures to abandon the narrow ____________________ (path /part) of virtue more often than passion.

(From Then and Now by W. S. Maugham)

7. Kitty smiled and in her heart sighed. There was only one thing she could do for Walter now and that she could not think how to. She wanted him to forgive her, not for her sake any more, but for his own; for she felt that this alone could give him _______________ (piece / peace) of mind...

8...." This is a memorable day for me, my child, " she said breaking from a long reverie, " for this is the anniversary of the day on which I finally determined to _______________ (enter/entreat) religion...

9....After I had received the Holy Communion I asked Our Lord to give me ____ (piece / peace) of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou hast ceased to desire it."

(From The Painted Veil by W. S. Maugham)

10. I could not help seeing that none of these clergymen practiced what they ____ (prayed / preached).

(From The Summing Up by W. S. Maugham)

11. Nothing saintly about Simeon Lee. The kind of man you might say had sold his___ (soul/sole) to the devil and enjoyed the bargain.

(From Hercule Point's Christmas by A. Christie)

12. Since then I have written many other books; and though ceasing my methodical study of the old masters (for though the spirit is willing, the ___ (flesh / body) is weak), I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better.

(From The Summing Up by W. S. Maugham)