Exercise 7. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with abstract nouns.)

1. We both appreciate ____ simplicity.2. In less than ____ week Cowperwood knew ___ financial condition of Messrs Waterman as well as they did, better, to ____dollar. 3. It is such ____ weary, weary work. 4. He had ____ com­fortable feeling of working alone in ____ large empty building, ____ feel­ing of ____ peace and ____ complete privacy. 5. I've reason to believe she has never properly got over ____ feeling she used to have. 6. I had seldom heard my friend speak with such ____ intensity of ____ feeling. 7. His footsteps were now heard striking upon ____ stony road at ____ distance of about twenty yards. 8. We had ____ wonderful weather. 9. You must learn to face ____ life seriously, Stephen. 10. However, ____ life of such striking monotony does not seem to depress him. 11. May you be happy in ____ life you have chosen! 12. I love to think of ____ time that must come some day when ____ man will have conquered ____ nature, and ____ human race enter upon ____ era of ____ peace. 13. She was panting now, and in her face was ____ terror which was inexplicable. 14. His round blue eyes be­ hind ____ spectacles were ghastly with ____ terror. 15. I think in some curious way ____ horror which she felt for him was ____ transference of ____ horror which she felt for herself because he so strangely troubled her.16. She was brilliantly familiar with ____ literature, ____ tongues, ____ art, ____ history, ____ physics, ____ metaphysics, ____ philosophy, and ____ politics (in which I include ____ modern politics). 17. It was ____ cold, bleak, biting weather. 18. ____ weather was sunny and dry. 19. ____ modern science is ____wonderful thing. 20. He was ____ steady, uninspired researcher in ____ properties of ____ liquid state of ____ matter. 21. Their blue eyes became filled with ____ gaiety and ____ ferocity and ____ joy, and their mouths with ____ laugh­ter.22. Jon laughed, and ____ sound of ____ laugh was  hard.23. Then she gave ____ crisp, ironic, almost cheerful laugh.  24. On that fine day ____ poverty of ____ dis­trict she was entering seemed to her country - nurtured eyes intensely cheerless. 25. ____ reason is ____ greatest discovery ever made by ____ man. Yet it is ____ most disregarded and least used.26. ...what I offer is ____ security and ____ respect. That doesn't sound very exciting, but perhaps it's better than ____ pas­sion. 27. And ____ passion that held Strickland was ____pas­sion to create ____ beauty. 28. She looked ____ incarna­tion of ____ supreme loveliness, ____ loveliness which was always revealing itself anew. 29. She knew nothing of ____ literature except ____ certain authors who to ____ truly cultured might seem banal. 30. ____ expression on her face ____ hungry and hard and feverish — had the most peculiar effect upon Soames. 31. She listened with ____ expression impatient, strained and intent.32. At that age I had ____ very faulty view of ____ geography. 33. Mr. Pickwick stood in ____ principal street of this illustrious town, and gazed with ____ air of ____ curiosity not unmixed with ____ interest, on ____ objects around him.  34. He longed for ____ comfort of his sister's society. 35.____ empty windows of ____ ruins were filled with ____ life of their own. 36. She sighed for ____ air, ____ liberty, ____ quiet of ____ country.  37. Miss Cherrell, I am going to do all I can to remove ____ unpleasant impression you have of me. I am your very humble servant, and I hope some day to have ____ chance to be something else to you. 38. It was ____ new fear, different from that which she had once confided in her own flat, yet grown from ____ same root.39. He spoke with ____ air of someone who has got over with an unpleasant duty and can now get on to ____ brighter mat­ters. 40. How quietly you live, John. I love ____ silence of this room and garden.41. At other times he would come and sit for long periods in her room in ____ silence. 42. What ____ noble thing ____ courage is. 43. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all ____ won­derful things ____ Miller used to say about ____ unselfishness of _____ true friendship.44. ____ friendship which he had imposed from ____ beginning he now emphasised more than ever. 45. And when multitudes of men are hurt to ____ death in wars I am driven to ____ grief which borders on ____ insanity

Exercise 8. Translate into English.

1. Декабристы погибли в борьбе за свободу народа. 2. Все народы земли хотят мира. 3. Меня интересует история развития английского романа. 4. Я очень ценю в людях скромность и простоту. 5. Природа играла большую роль в твор­честве романтиков. 6. Музыкант должен знать историю оперы. 7. С ней он мог говорить о литературе, об искусстве, о чем угодно, мог жаловаться ей на жизнь, на людей. 8. Я хочу быть артисткой, я хочу славы, успехов, свободы. 9. Оста­вим пока геометрию. Обратимся к науке, которую вы, как чи­новник почтового ведомства, вероятно, любите. География — наука почтальонов. 10. Зачем я стереометрию учил, если ее в программе нет? 11. Я с детства люблю музыку. 12. Он изучает английскую историю. 13. Он изучает историю Англии. 14. На расстоянии 20-30 шагов мы увидели странную фигуру. 15. Если вы плохо себя чувствуете, не выходите в такую погоду. 16. Мой брат очень любит архитектуру и мечтает стать архитектором.