What made the young man apply for a job to the Pope
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Couple of hours, kept an eye on us, it flashed through my mind, be ready for anything.
Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them in the sentences of your owm
Words out of my mouth, afraid that Colonel Pope would change his mind before I could get them out.
This is how I got my first job. And I have never doubted ever since that one of the reasons why I got it was that I had been "willing to wash windows and scrub floors". I had been ready for anything.
NOTES:
1 Sommerville — окраина Бостона
2 to get oneself established — найти работу
3 laying off hands — увольняя рабочих
4 hang on — настаивать
5 everything would be all up with me — для меня все будет
кончено
6 downtown — деловая часть города
7 uptown — жилая часть города
8 as I went along — по ходу дела
I
Find in the text English equivalents for the following words end expressions:
направиться куда-либо, помочь устроиться, гостеприимство, было необычайно важно, в соответствии с, рекламировать, энергичный человек, без работы, никогда в жизни не ездил на велосипеде, нанимать на работу, увольнять, назначить заведующим, издавать журнал, вымолвить, передумать, с тех пор не сомневался
II
got out at, to make me comfortable, in some way, application for a job, wanted it badlyrscrub floors, in a
Paraphrase the sentences using phrases from the text:
1) Miss Bennet and her family received him very
warmly.
2) Everybody tried to help him to find some kind of
job.
3) Their concern and hospitality were very important
to him. ^
4) He told Colonel Pope that he was unemployed and
needed any job very mux:h.
5) The man thought that everything would be lost for
him if he didn't find a job.
6) He had never riden a bicycle in his life.
7) Mr. Wilmot neither employed the journalist nor dis
missed him.
8) The boss made him responsible for the uptown rink.
9) It suddenly occurred to him that his willingness to do
any job had helped him to get his first job.
IV
Questions on the text:
1) Who was the only person the author knew in Bos
ton?
2) In what way was he received? Why was it of great
importance to him?
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