Учебное пособие по английскому языку для студентов неязыковых вузов специальности "Государственное и муниципальное управление". Касторнова О.Н. - 61 стр.

         exactly what he was still aiming to do – what the next steps were. And this
         happened week after week after week.
                He was a very effective manager. And the second thing he did was move
         very quickly on the painful stuff. So he very quickly took out the people who
         didn’t fit. So sometimes the decisions were hard, but he made them and he made
         them quickly.
                Reading III. 1. Read the story.

                                      Art for Heart’s Sake
                Old Ellsworth was sitting in his study and reading a newspaper, when
         Koppel, his servant, came in:
                “Will you take orange juice, sir?”
                “No,” answered Mr. Ellsworth.
                “But it’s good for you, sir.”
                “No.”
                When doctor Caswell came Koppel told him: “I can’t do anything with
         the old man. He doesn’t take his juice, he doesn’t want to listen to the radio, he
         doesn’t like anything.”
                Doctor Caswell had thought a lot about Mr. Ellsworth since his last visit.
         It was a difficult case.
                The old gentleman was quite well for a man of seventy six, but he had a
         kind of mania – he bought everything he saw: cars, factories, railroads. He was
         losing his money quickly and it was necessary to keep him away from business.
                The doctor came into Mr. Ellsworth’s study.
                “Well, how’s the young man today?”
                “Umph,” came from the man in the armchair.
                “I’d like to recommend something to you,” the doctor said.
                “What’s it? Is it something to keep me away from business?”
                “How would you like to study art?”
                “But I’m not good at painting.”
                “I can get a student from one of art school who’ll give you lessons.”
                The doctor found a young student Frank Swain by name, who agreed to
         give Mr. Ellsworth lessons on art.
                Swain came to Mr. Ellsworth the next afternoon and the lessons began.
                Time flew and Swain came more and more often.
                It was difficult to say whether Mr. Ellsworth had really got interested in
         art but one thing was certain: he stopped buying things and his family was
         delighted.
                Frank took him to art galleries and exhibitions. Ellsworth wanted to know
         everything about art galleries and artists who exhibited their paintings in them.
         He also wanted to know how the museums arranged exhibitions and who chose
         paintings for those exhibitions.
                When spring came Ellsworth produced an awful piece of painting which


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