Аракин 4 курс полностью

to reduce by/to, e. g. We have been able to .reduce our tax bill by 10%. The price of the 
chair has been reduced to $ 10.
to reduce someone to tears to make someone weep, e. g. You may choose to scold this 
child, but there's no need to reduce him to tears.
Syn. decrease, lessen, diminish, abate, dwindle
reduction n reducing or being reduced, e. g. The goods are sold at a great reduction in 
price.
Syn. discount

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Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс под ред. В.Д. Аракина
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READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES 
1. a) Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words: 
authority; contest n, prize-fighter; enthusiastic; solo; despondently; paths; invigilator; 
flagrant; dispassionately; anonymous; nonchalant; frustrated; recognize; tripos; 
admirably; remoteness; viva; imminent; irritatingly; desperate; photographer; prejudice; 
admiring; tetanus; previously; triumphal; plough; opiate a; sponge. 
b) Listen to your partners' reading of the exercise. Correct their mistakes, if they have any.
2. Practise the pronunciation of the following words paying attention to: 
 a) two principal stresses;
b) the secondary and principal stresses. Beat the time: 
a) well-established; thenceforward; meanwhile; well-trodden; self-consciousness; 
unhurriedly: dissatisfied; undeserved; un-exploded; blackjack.
b) examination; inevitability; investigation; representative; differentiate; superiority; 
interrogation; invitation; familiarity; inescapable; anatomic; disadvantage; preparation; 
congratulation; disappear. 
3. Read the following word combinations paying attention to the phonetic phenomena of connective speech 
(assimilation, lateral and nasal plosions, the loss of plosion, the linking “r”).