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V. Answer the following questions.
1) What was Mr. Smeeth‘s attitude to his daughter? 2. What was it that annoyed him in her?
3. What did Edna look like? 4. Do you think that her father's annoyance was well-founded or rather
unreasonable? 5. What can be said in Edna‘s defence? (She was ―languid and complaining, shrill
and resentful, or sullen and tearful‖. Probably she had reasons of her own for being all that, hadn‘t
she?) 6. Why was it that George, "a very bright promising boy, turned out a disappointment to his
father? Do you think that Mr.Smeeth was objective in his disappointment? 7. What was it exactly
that worried him about George? Do you think that George‘s failings were serious ones? 7. Why was
it that Mr. Smeeth‘s children were foreigners to him? 8. Do you think that the parents are to be
blamed for their attempts to apply their own standards to their children? Or, probably, such attempts
are natural and understandable?
VI. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the words and word
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