Act One. I. Fill in the blanks using active vocabulary:

I. Fill in the blanks using active vocabulary:

1. It (hearing my relatives abused) is the only thing that makes me put … … them at all.

2. You never … anything but nonsense.

3. Your friend Bunbury will get you … a serious scrape some day.

4. Old Mr. Thomas Cardew made … in his will guardian … his granddaughter.

5. I wish you would offer a large reward. I happen to be more than usually hard ….

6. I’ll … this as a proof that your name is Ernest if you ever attempt to deny it to me.

7. You will have to clear … the question of Cecily.

8. I am in love … Gwendolen. I (Jack) have come up to town expressly to … … Gwendolen.

9. When one is placed in a position of guardian, one has to … a very high moral tone … all subjects.

10. It would … no room … development, and I intend to develop in many directions.

II. Fill in the blanks:

1. Algernon: Why an aunt should call her own nephew her uncle, I can’t make ….

Come, old boy, you had better have the whole thing … at once.

2. It’s absurd to have hard and … rules about what one should read.

3. Jack advances to the table and … … (to bread and butter).

4. I don’t much care about the name of Ernest, I don’t think the name … me at all.

5. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject has not even been … on.

6. I’m afraid you have had very little experience … how to propose.

7. In what locality did this Mr. Cardew come … this ordinary handbag?

III. Match a word in “A” with its equivalent in “B”.

A	B
1.vulgar	a) неприятность, нарушение (общественного) порядка
2.ignorance	b) закуска
3.refined (girl)	c) божественный
4.divine (name)	d) наследственный
5.violence	e) развод
6.admirable	f) (зд.)испорченный, аморальный
7.refreshment	g) невежество
8.wicked	h) восхитительный, превосходный
9.hereditary	i) утонченный, изящный, изысканный
10.divorce	j) насилие
11.(public) nuisance	k) нерешительность
12.shilly-shallying	l) грубый, пошлый, простонародный