Английский язык. Часть I. Коныгина Г.И - 4 стр.

In the text, you will find the following words (1 – 15). Match the words with
their definitions (a – o).

1. abundant       a. taken away, isolated, separated from, excluded
2. adventurous    b. difficulty, trouble, problems
3. engraving      c. disgrace, disrespect, dreadful conditions, public shaming,
                     degradation
4. focus          d. leaving behind, neglect, refusal, rejection
5. coherent       e. to recur constantly, keep returning to one’s mind so that
                     one cannot forget it
6. congenial      f. change for the better, perfection, enhanced value or ex-
                     cellence
7. humiliation    g. picture made by cutting a design on a piece of metal and
                     then printing the design on paper
8. celebrity      h. to concentrate upon, give attention to
9. haunt          i. logical, consistent, coordinated
10. readership    j. the act of spending more money than you can afford,
                     wastefulness, over-spending, prodigality
11. withdrawn     k. existing in large quantities, more than enough, plentiful,
                     numerous
12. embarrassment l. disposed to seek adventure or to cope with the new and
                     unknown, innovative, inventive, creative
13. extravagance  m. the mass or a particular group of readers
14. abandonment n. a widely known and popularly esteemed person, public
                     figure
15. improvement o. acceptable, satisfying, appropriate, pleasant

Reading

  The text that follows allows you to become familiar with the face behind the
name Charles Dickens.

Read the text. The following sentences (1-10) have been taken out of the
text. Fill in the gaps (A-J) with the appropriate sentence.

1. All these successes, however, were shadowed by domestic unhappiness.
2. But despite many developments, the fiction still contained many stylistic and
   narrative features continuous with the earlier work.
3. The same month, he was invited to write the text for a series of comic en-
   gravings by a well-known artist.
4. He was buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
5. Dickens's enormous body of works includes novels, stories, essays, speeches
   and thousands of pages of letters.
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