IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.

1. Ever since they met those two have been ….

2. The offer was so good that I couldn’t … it.

3. Studies have shown that laughter enhances … and protects against disease.

4. When the floods …, the streets were littered with ….

5. I don't think she wanted us to come and stay with her, she just offered out of ….

6. Florian came to study to the United States on a Fulbright ….

7. Somehow we managed to … the boat out of the water and onto the bank.

8. Attempts to … abortion have so far been unsuccessful.

V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions or adverbs where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences.

1. After that, the town continued to sink until spring floods finally washed it ….

2. His only reason for investing in the company was to take it ….

3. She was so striking – I was hopelessly … love … her. She went … together with my elder brother.

4. Let me bring you … … date … all the latest gossip.

5. People are funny. You never know what goes … … their heads. I thought he was going to propose … me, but in fact he just wanted to borrow some money.

6. Now the war is over, everything is … … normal again.

7. Accessible only by air, the town is cut … from the rest of the country.

8. What a business it is to run … a government!

9. The visit passed … without any serious incidents.

10. Lately she has taken … spending long hours alone in her room, only coming downstairs for meals.

11. The afternoon wore … much the same as the morning, only more slowly.

12. One of my colleagues commutes … a rented house in the suburbs of New York … Wall Street.

VI. Find the notions defined below in the text. Fill in the gaps in the sentences that follow with these notions.

a) A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, discomfort, or nervousness, especially in front of other people.

b) A special quality or power of giving delight, arousing admiration and influencing other people easily.

c) A state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect; a sense of pride in oneself, self-respect; a composed or serious manner or style.

d) A thing, condition, or quality of being secret, strange, or difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

e) A feeling, quality, or state of being deliberately unhelpful; causing difficulty, hard to do or deal with; being deliberately unreasonable or uncooperative; being uncomfortable, inconvenient or abnormal.

1. She read my poem out to the whole class – I almost died of ….

2. Prisoners should be treated with regard for human ….

3. He was a leader of great character and tremendous personal ….

4. Jack tried to smooth over the … of the situation.

5. Scientists continue to unravel the … of human genes.