Summing-up tasks

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 509.

III. Choose one of the books mentioned in the text and give a summary of it.

II. Sum up the information given in the text following the points from Task I.

I. Insert the missing prepositions:

The revolt ... December 14(26) had the advantage ... showing the character ... the young monarch to be seen ... the public. Nikolay I displayed great zeal ... maintaining order ... the country. Immediately ... the revolt a Committee headed ... Nikolay himself started a thorough investigation determining to get ... the very bottom. He took the keen interest ... the investigation. He even spoke ... the Decembrists assuming a pose befitting the character … each defendant. ... ... the harsh regime, the scanty diet many prisoners were ... the verge ... total physical and mental collapse; and there was little wonder ... Nikolay' success ... the Decembrists who took his pretended sympathy ... its face value. The Decembrists were unaware ... developments, as well as ... the fact that a court was held ... July 9, 1926. Those ... charge ... the investigation prepared a very cruel sentence ... great precipitance and forwarded it ... the Emperor. All together 579 persons were brought... trial, ... whom 121 were selected as the most responsible conspirators , 134 were found guilty ... minor offenses. The five leaders, “to be delivered... bloodshed”, were to be hanged. Thirty-on were exiled ... hard labour ... Siberia ... life and the remaining were sentenced... various terms.

Thus ended the first act ... the drama ... the struggle ... liberty ... Russia. It revealed the medieval state ... the country which was responsible ... depriving Russia ... the flower ... her youth.