Exercise III. Choose the appropriate Russian equivalents for the following English phrases and sentences.

1.... the firstborn.

a) впервые родившись.

b) первая в семье.

c) первенец.

2.... when the baby arrived.

a) когда ребенок прибыл.

b) когда младенец появился на свет.

c) когда младенца привезли. 3.1 got very used to walking.

a) я стала привыкать к ходьбе.

b) я очень много ходила пешком.

c) я часто пользовалась ходьбой.

4. My mother had this view...

a) у моей матери был такой вид...

b) у моей мамы был этот взгляд...

c) у моей мамы была такая точка зрения...

5. My mother didn't have much of a home life.

a) у моей матери не было любви к домашнему хозяйству.

b) моя мама не была домоседкой.

c) у моей мамы не было настоящего дома.

TEXT 14

Once upon a time there was a king, Sunjar, who had a daughter, Princess Banu. The princess became very ill and her father the king was very sad because he could find no doctors who could cure her. Then one day astranger arrived in the capital, a man called Shadrack the physician, who offered to cure the princess. The king allowed him to see the princess, but told him that if he did not cure her, he would lose his head. Shadrack approached the couch where the princess was lying, but instead of examining her like a normal doctor he began to tell the princess stories, of wars and heroes, of peace and glory, and as he spoke his fingers never left her pulse. Finally, his diagnosis was finished. The princess went away, and Shadrack said to the king. " Your majesty, I have seen by the reactions of her pulse that she is in love, in love with someone who lives here in this city. That person lives in the street of the jewellers. The man she loves is a young, handsome man called Abul-Fazl, for when 1 mentioned his name she fainted."

Now the king admired the skill of this physician, and was very happy to know the cause of his daughter's illness, but he was at the same time very angry that she was in love with Abul-Fazl, because everyone knew that Abul-Fazl was an unpleasant fool. However, the king sent for the jeweller, and as soon as he arrived the princess began to recover. In a few days she was well again, the jeweller was behaving as if he was the king, nor Sunjar, and the king was so pleased with Shadrack the physician that he made him an important minister. Both the king and the doctor knew that Abul-Fazl was the wrong man for the princess, out they also knew that they could not send him away, because mat would bring back the princess's illness. Shadrack provided the answer.

By a trick, he gave Abul-Fazl a medicine which made him get older very quickly. It was as if each day he got about twenty years older. And very quickly, 190, the princess began to find his bent back and his grey hair very unattractive. At the same time, Shadrack gave himself another medicine, and by its effect, while Abul-Fazl was getting older, Shadrack was getting younger and younger.

Before very long the princess fell in love with the young physician, so deeply in love that when the king drove Abul-Fazl away from nis court, the princess hardly noticed. She and the physician and the king, her father, lived happily ever after. In this way we can see that nothing is inevitable.

TEST 14 Read the text carefully and do the exercises that follow.

Exercise I. Mark the statements below as " true" or " false".

1. Shadrack was invited to the capital and asked to cure the princess.

2. Shadrack got to know the cause of the princess's illness as soon as he looked at her.

3. Shadrack found out about Abul-Fazl from the reactions of the princess's pulse.

4. The king admired Abul-Fazl although he was an unpleasant fool

5. Shadrack found a way to get rid of Abul-Fazl without sending him away.

6. The princess began to find Abul-Fazl unattractive because he was getting old very quickly.

7. Abul-Fazl left the king's court because he was upset.

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