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Exercise 7. Make the necessary substitutions and reproduce the dialogues.

1. 
   A: Have you read the editorial in today’s “Arguments and Facts”?
   

8. 
   Not yet. I have only looked through the front page.
   

{В: the press coverage of the Prime Minister’s visit, some advertisements, an article about a horrible murder)

2. 
   A: To tell the truth. I’m not interested in details.
   

B: If I were you, I would.
(A: their objectives, her decision, their ethical standards, his arguments)

3. 
   A: Please come to the point.
   

B: I'm afraid you’ve already missed the point.
(A: reach, get to)
Exercise 8. Insert the words given below.

1. 
   The main ... of the article is to make people realize how important the problem is. 2. Truman Capote’s last book created a great... . 3. There is a lot of in what he says. 4. Nye and Smith were given an ... to buy “The Northern Light”. 5. The ... said he wanted his best journalists to ... the Foreign Ministers’ meeting. 6. To Somerville's surprise Henry Page for quite a time. 7. I sug­
   

gest everyone should give his ... for and against the project. 8. Several scientific institutions were in the Far East. 9. Do not make so much ... about little
things. 10. You should ... now ... it will be too late. 11. The old man think­
ing about his decision.
to keep on, common sense, to set up. fuss, to decide, otherwise, editor, to hold out, objective, sensation, argument, assignment, to cover