Unit XII

Chapters LV-LVIII

1. Study the following words and word combinations, explain their meaning in English, give the context in which they are used:

1. to presume one’s time

2. to be seized with horror

3. to look at smb. with a faint smile

4. to be with a heavy heart

5. to be seized with a feeling of uneasiness

6. a look of superhuman love

7. to be seized by an overwhelming sensation

8. to frighten smb. out of one’s wits

9. to loose courage

10. to bear one’s years well

2. Say whether the following statements are true or false:

1. Dr. Coutras was a man to attract immediate sympathy.

2. Dr. Coutras refused to visit Strickland because he wasn’t sympathetic to him.

3. The natives didn’t know the signs of leprosy, they were not afraid of Strickland.

4. Ata didn’t leave Strickland, she transformed into a determined woman and took care of him.

5. The natives looked upon Ata with the same horrified aversion as they looked upon Strickland, but Ata didn’t know about it.

6. When Dr. Coutras came to Ata’s house, he seemed on a sudden to have entered a magic world.

7. Strickland had finally put the whole expression of himself in Tahiti.

8. Strickland never complained of his fate, he never lost courage.

9. Mrs. Strickland felt it was only right to give people information she could about Charlie, because her relations with her husband had always been perfect.

3. Fill in prepositions:

1. Dr. Coutras considered Strickland to be an idle, useless scoundrel, who preferred to live… a native woman, rather than work… his living like the rest… them.

2. Dr. Coutras had delivered sentence… death… many men and he could never overcome the horror with which it filled him.

3. Nothing… emotion could be seen… his face, disfigured already… the loathsome disease.

4. Dr. Coutras felt that it was absurd to offer expressions… regret… so terrible a disaster, and he took his leave.

5. He knew nothing… pictures, but there was something about these that extraordinarily affected him: it took his breath away.

6. It was the work… a man who had delved… the hidden depths… nature and had discovered secrets which were beautiful and fearful too.

7. … a long time Dr. Coutras couldn’t get… his head the recollection… the extraordinary decoration with which Strickland had covered the walls… his house.

8. You saw man… the nakedness… his primeval instincts, and you were afraid, for you saw yourself.

9. Nothing had prepared Dr. Coutras… the immense surprise… these pictures… a native hut, far away… civilization, … a fold… the mountain above Taravao.