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4. My friend works for dating service. His job is to match men and women who want to build family.

5. Article, small word, often causes problems.

6. We must give house new coat of paint tomorrow. And on Sunday we shall give house final coat of paint.

7. Only place where success comes before work is in dictionary.

8. Atlantic is said to be called "Kitchen of Weather".

9. Six countries of West Indies are Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.

10. Tone of story is set from very beginning.

11. Walt Disney, famous film animator and producer, created Disneyland, large pleasure park, which was opened in California

in 1955.

12. Beautiful fjords and breathtaking scenery of Western Norway turn week's holiday into unforgettable experience.

13. Novel is not-to-be-missed book which has become bestseller.

14. Roy isn't type of man to make woman happy.

15. — What do men call man who can cook? — Chef. — What do men call woman who can cook? — Housewife.

16. Discovery of ruins of ancient palace was climax of very exciting expedition.

17. With fifth century came fall of Roman Empire.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

82. Give a complex analysis of the following texts, paying special attention to the non-finite forms of the verb, cases of inversion, double predicates, sub -

stantivized parts of speech.

1.

Not for a moment did Miss Honey doubt now, that she had met a truly extraordinary mathematical brain and the word

child- genius went flitting through her head. She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time, but

only once or twice in a hundred years. After all, Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what

happened to him. So the teacher could not resist the temptation of exploring still further the mind of this astonishing child. She

knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but in vain did she try to do it. She was altogether too

excited to let the matter rest.

2. "This particular type of poetry is called a limerick," Miss Honey, the teacher, said. "This one is very famous," she said,

picking up the book and returning to her table in front of the class. "A witty limerick is very hard to write," she added, "they

look easy but they most certainly are not." "I know," Matilda said. "I've tried quite a few times but mine are never any good."

"I insist upon hearing one of them," Miss Honey said, smiling one of her rare smiles. On hearing the limerick, written about

her, Miss Honey's pale and pleasant face blushed a brilliant scarlet.

And now Miss Honey's hopes began to expand even further. She started wondering whether permission might not be got from

the parents for her to give private tuition to Matilda after school. "There is no point," she said to the girl, "in you siting in class

doing nothing while I am teaching the rest of the form how to spell cat and rat and mouse." The prospect of coaching a child as

bright as this appealed enormously to her professional instinct as a teacher. Having got the address from the school records,