Англиискии для вас Новый курс XXI века

Exercise 9. Make up twelve questions based on the text and answer them.
Exercise 10. Insert prepositions or adverbs.
Washington May Well Interfere¹¹⁶
About two weeks there had been rumours¹¹⁷ ... a revolution in Puerto Santos.¹¹⁸ Puerto Santos is not an important country but American diplomats always make much fuss ... such rumours.
So Joe Hurd, an American diplomat, parked the car ... a large house. The door was opened ... an old man.
The old man came ... the point at once: “This is an important day. 1 hope we shall have a new President soon.”
“Have you seen Miro today? Please tell me everything ... detail,” asked Hurd.
“I can’t go ... details. What are you gentlemen planning to do?” asked the old man.
“I don't know,” the diplomat replied. “My Ambassador considers Martinez, the present President, a force ... stability [sta'bilsti] in Puerto Santos. Washington may well agree. We have arms, so maybe arms will save the situa­tion and Martinez will hold ....”
“What are your arguments ... saving Martinez? Tell me, why is Washington so willing to send Martinez arms?” the old man kept... asking the diplomat.
“Well, it's part... what we call the larger strategy I 'st net эф].”
“Is it believed that our army has been the protector... our freedom in Puerto Santos?”
“No.”
“Yet you support Martinez and consider our army to be part ... the larger strategy of freedom?”
“Yes. There’s no getting it.”
“I still hope we'll be able to set ... a new democratic government," the old man said.
(After “The Triumph”* by John Kenneth Galbraith) Exercise 11. Make up fourteen sentences using these word combinations.
an argument for, an argument against, to keep on doing smth., to get out of, to set up, to hold out, to make a fuss about smth., to come to the point, to keep to the point, in detail, to go into details, to pick up. to take off, a newspaper with a circulation of