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Assignment Eight (pp. 59-68)
I. Answer the questions using the words given below.
1. Make up a dialogue between Diana Maberly and Poirot. What was the reason for her visit?
to be engaged
to break off an engagement
on the contrary
to go mad
to leave the Navy
to give a reason
to manage an estate
a pretext
a godfather
an unusual occurrence
in the neighborhood
to give rise to
local talk and rumours
a fuss
a fiancé
to consult a doctor
to believe in
to approve of smth
to be pleased
to fix smth up
at least
2. What impression did Hugh Chandler make on Poirot?
magnificent physique
well-proportioned
a mass of hair
a specimen of healthy manhood
on smb’s arrival
to speak in a low voice
to involve smb in smth
to give in
all the same
3. What information did Poirot get about the Chandlers through Colonel Frobisher?
to look old and tired
to drop one’s voice
insanity
to become violent
to take to an asylum
to be afraid of
to be fond of
to be drowned
to be devoted to
at the end of
to bring up
to be married to
to be aware
the reason for
heredity
find out
4. Why did Admiral Chandler force his son to leave the Navy?
to do with
to investigate
to be full of
to question smb
to leave the service
to have a scandal
the only thing
5. Why was Admiral Chandler against Hugh’s being examined by the doctor and against Poirot’s investigation?
a study
can’t help doing smth
an outsider
a trace of abnormality about smb
to roar
to shut smb up between four walls
a wild beast
6. What information did Poirot get about Frobisher and Hugh through Admiral Chandler?
a friend of smb
to be in love
to be lucky
to marry smb
to be out in the boat
to stay at home
to overturn
to hold smb up
as long as
7. What happened to Hugh when he was all wrong?
to sit on a bench
to turn one’s face towards smb
to be sane/insane
to get worse
to take a long breath
for one think … for the other
to dream
for instance
to race about
to taste smth in one’s mouth
to have hydrophobia
to be thirsty
to swallow
to escape
to hand on smth to smb
to be frightened of
to lock smb in
at night
to turn smb from a man into …
8. How did Hugh happen to cut his chin?
to spend much of one’s life in
to be keen on smth
to reflect on smth
to remark
to startle smb
to be nervous
to have a rash over
to do one’s best for smb
to keep away from smb
II. Comment on Colonel Frobisher’s words:
“All the same, you know, there are some things that you can’t fight…”
Assignment Nine (pp. 69-77)
I. Answer the questions using the words given below.
1. What was Poirot’s conversation with Diana about? What was he afraid of?
to have courage
to make smb afraid
to catch a murderer
to prevent a murder
to pass the night at
2. What arrangements did Poirot and Diana make before spending the night at Hugh’s house?
there is no time to lose
an experiment
to make no questions about smth
to follow smb into
on the upper floor
to find smth easily enough
a washbasin with hot and cold water
to take smb some time to do smth
3. Where did Poirot call at on the way back? Why did it strike Diana?
to call out
to be back in time for dinner
It struck her
to mind doing
in the middle of
outside
to be away
4. What happened towards early morning?
to draw back the bolt
stern-faced
grim
a huddled figure
here and there
to be dead white
unconscious
to catch one’s breath
to regain consciousness
unwillingly
5. What did Hugh decide to do in the morning? Was it the only way out?
to get a hare
to take smth off
to load a gun
the only way out
6. Could Hugh believe that he was sane and hadn’t killed animals? How did Poirot make Hugh believe it?
neither of us
entirely
to prove
to be insane
on each occasion
to give a strong sleeping-pill
to put a blood-stained knife into smb’s hand
to be just about to do
to come across
deliberately
to drive smb mad by the administration of drugs
to be prescribed freely
for eye treatment
to obtain
to arouse suspicion
to extract from
to apply externally
to cause a rash
to lead to
to produce symptoms
dryness of the mouth and throat
a hallucination
to test
7. What was the motive for murder Poirot had been looking for? Who and when did he suspect?
to look for a motive for murder
the eternal triangle
to inherit smth from smb
to plan a revenge
to turn one’s hatred against smb
to put smth into smb’s head
to pay the penalty
to object to smth/doing smth
8. What did the two men see and hear Admiral Chandler do?
to pick up a gun
nonsense
the last of
II. Comment on Poirot’s words:
“I thought of a possible motive, the eternal triangle: two men and a woman.”
Revise the words from Labour IV and VI for a test.
Test
Translate into English
1. Политическая карьера Харольда складывалась хорошо. Он был привлекателен и свободен от романтических привязанностей.
2. Миссис Клейтон по старомодному была прелестной. Миссис Райс была женщиной с характером, уверенная в себе, но у нее было чувство юмора и она была интересным собеседником.
3. Миссис Райс была очень привязана к своей дочери, которая была связана с жестоким, грубым человеком, ее мужем. Он жутко ревновал ее и устраивал ей ужасные сцены, если она только поговорит с другим мужчиной. Всему виной был алкоголь.
4. Диана была помолвлена с Хью и очень его любила, но он расторг помолвку по причине того, что сходит с ума, но Диана была борцом и не хотела сдаваться.
5. Хью не был безумен. Адмирал Чендлер внушил ему это. Он спланировал месть. Он хотел свести Хью с ума приемом лекарств. Он знал, что атропин свободно прописывают для лечения глаз и его можно добыть не вызывая подозрения: При наружном применении он вызывает сыпь и определенные симптомы, которые Адмирал сам испытал.
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