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VOCABULARY EXERCISES 
1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian. 
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian: 
1. How a few words can bring it all back! 2. Clocks and watches should be brought 
forward one hour from midnight tonight. 3. In his speech he tried to bring out all the 
salient features of the author's career. 4. Nothing that she could have done, nothing that 
she had done, brought home to him like this the inner significance of her act. 5. The 
punishment cell was a dark, damp, filthy hole under ground. Instead of bringing Arthur 
"to reason" it thoroughly exasperated him. 6. Nick played so well at the concert that he 
brought the house down. 7. That scolding should bring him to his senses. 8. Mr. Brown, 

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who is on the editorial board, announced that the case would be brought before the 
committee the next Tuesday. 9. Clyde's work at the hotel brought him into contact with 
different people. 10. Soames had never seen such an expression on Irene's face. And 
since it is always the unusual which alarms, Soames was alarmed. 11. Luckily a passer-
by heard the burglar-alarm ringing in the jewellery store. 12. The world's forests are 
shrinking at an alarming rate. 13. She set the alarm to go off at five. 14. She must be very 
nervous, she fusses about all the time. 15.1 bet it was Bassington who went to that doctor 
and made all that fuss about having cancer. 16. "I really don't see what you're making 
such a fuss about," said Larry coldly. 17. Why fuss so much about this trip? The things 
are already packed, the accounts paid. 18. She doesn't see her grandchildren very often so 
she tends to make a real fuss of them when she does. 19. George Smith had put on weight 
and got heavier in his movements, began to go grey and lose his temper now and then. 
20. The want of sympathy on the part of the world made George sell his banjo at a great 
loss. 21. Tom seemed lost in thought. 22. There are losses that cannot be made up for. 23. 
They lost no time in telling me I was wrong. 24. No great loss without a small gain 
(proverb). 25. He is a TV addict.
26. Susan was afraid of becoming addicted to 
tranquillizers.
27. Drug addiction is a plague of the 20th century. 28. The problem with 
video games is that they are addictive. 29. We don't know the extent of his involvement 
in the affair. 30. Fagin and his friends involved Oliver in a robbery. 31. He had been 
taught that modern physics involved the manipulation of minute quantities of matter. 32. 
The accident involved two cars and a lorry. 33. She didn't feel like getting involved in a 
long argument on the phone so she hung up. 34. Travel tends to sophisticate a person. 35. 
Some pieces of modern music can be appreciated only by a very sophisticated audience. 
36. She was a country girl, shy and unsophisticated, so different from her rich cousin in 
New York. 37. The experiment involved sophisticated technologies. 38. Soames' most 
valued possession -r- his daughter — was of medium height and colour, with short, dark-
chestnut hair. 39. A thing not being valuable or having no commercial value cannot be 
costly; nevertheless it may be precious to us on account of the giver. 40. You should have 
learned to value other people's time. 41.1 will say it to John, his services to us are 
invaluable. 42. The value of life lies not in

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the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long, yet get little 
from life (M. Montaigne). 43. Though he prided himself on trusting no one, he always 
accepted at face value any friendly gesture that was offered to him. 44. While the New 
Yorker can appreciate the beauties of nature where he can forget the urgent problems of 
the day, he seems to be unaffected by the joys of country life. 45. The expeditionNvas in 
urgent need of supplies. 46. Everything urgent had been dealt with by her efficient 
secretary. 47. Old Jolyon could hardly resist June's urgent requests. 48. "Well, a good 
novel is real, far more significant than most of the highbrow stuff — so-called", he said, 
taking a little time to answer. 49. "He knows his stuff', said Monsier Poirot with evident 
approval. 50. My father was a stuffy man. He always wore dark suits and ugly ties, and 
was for ever pursing his lips and wrinkling up his forehead before he said anything. 51. 
He stuffed his ears with cotton wool not to be distracted by the noise.