A.1. He helped Poirot deftly offwith his overcoat.
2. Mallory no longer felt fear or anxiety and that was his chief
reaction: he would have hated to have to speak to him again.
3. But Hilary couldn’t free himself/get rid ofhis own burdens
in that way. 4. Have you heard the news? We need no longer
worry/be afraid/ 5. Your room is arranged in very good
taste/very tastefully. 6. The palace was decorated with paintings
and sculptures/painters and sculptors had been hired to
make the palace beautiful. 7. «Every portrait that is executed
with feeling is the portrait ofthe painter and not of the sitter,»
said Basil Hallward. 8. Quite soon I found, to my own astonishment,
that the difficult craft offishing I was trying to master
had, indeed, a powerful fascination, 9. When it was over he
inhaled deeply/he sighed with relief. 10. Beauty attracted him
irresistibly. 11. If the reporter could not get facts for his stories,
he often used his imagination. 12. A considerate host
always does his best to engage a left-out guest in the conversation/
so that a left-out guest can take part in the conversation.
13. Mr. Strickland has painted the portrait of/has depicted/
has represented/has pictured an excellent husband and
lather, a man ofkindly temper, industrious habits, and moral
disposition. 14. I haven’t been photographed for years/I heavrn’t
had my photo taken for years. 15. «Mousehold Heath» is a
magnificent painting by John Crome. It shows/portrays a
shepherd-boy and his dog with a few sheep on a piece of
ground covered with broken turf. 16. He imagined a house
half-way to Plyn hill, ivy-covered and with a view ofthe harbour,
and Janet waiting for him when the day’s work was
through. 17. Leonardo da Vinci loved to paint/depict the
smile and used it to give life and reality and the illusion of
spiritual depth to his characters. 18. The president wasted no
words, yet managed to give a detailed and graphic picture of
the nation’s strength. 19. The Russian art students were eager
to depict/represent/picture national themes and to choose
the subjects oftheir pictures themselves. They were not
drawn to classical subjects, for their hearts lay in realism and
purpose painting. 20. Cezanne would never have executed his
exquisite pictures if he had been able to use his pencil as skillfully
as the academic Ingres. 21. She described his ingratitude
very vividly.
B. 1.He met her challenge with a bitter smile though he
had grown very pale/pale as a sheet/pale as chalk. 2. Tristram’s
face went grim as death, and he bit his lips, while his bride
blushed to the top of her ears/blushed/coloured to the roots
of her hair. 3. His reputation wasn’t completely unblemished/
irreproachable. 4. These pages tell about events that
really happened. All that has been done is to varnish/embellish/
misrepresent them. 5. Mr. Gaitskill never for a moment
questioned (was all the time absolutely sure of) his divine right
to do, within the accepted limits, exactly what he liked. 6. The
weather looks as if it may change any moment. 7. I shouldn’t
like to live in such a questionable neighbourhood/to live
among sich suspicious characters. 8. Doris had now made it
clear that she was by no means sure ofthe sincerity ofLaura’s
deep affection for Conrad. 9. The whole craft was to stay silent,
to choose one’s time carefully, and then pick off the enemies.
10. The boy’s sailor-suit, a size or two too big for him, had been
chosen in the expectation ofhis «growing into it» which no
doubt showed great thrift. 11. Books are often displayed on the
counter to let the customers pick/choose what they like.
12. The man who had charge ofthe canoes was a huge guy,
brown all over, who had been picked/chosen for his strength.
13- He felt, as other men felt in her presence, brighter and wittier
and braver. 14. Harris suggested that George never ought
to step into a boat of an ordinari magnitude with feet that
length. 15. We saw the ruins overgrown with creepers, halfburied
in vegetation but still as huge as ever. 16. The portrait
looked as if I had executed it myself. The sad dark eyes were
fixed on me, sharing, or at least understanding, as it seemed,
my foolish boyish dreams. 17. The «Young Man» seems to gaze
at us with such intensity and sadness, that it is almost impossible
to believe that these dreamy eyes are only a bit ofearth of
different tints spread on a rough piece ofcanvas. 18. He made
a gentle attempt to introduce his friends into Bertolini society
and the attempt had failed. 19. Seeing that someone was
approaching him, he concentrated on pulling himself together
and it worked. 20. He realized that he wouldn’t fall asleep,
try as he might (no matter what he did) and gave up. 21.
Lampton joined in the laughter, but he had to try' hard to bring
himself to laugh to make himself laugh/to force himself to
laugh and it was all artificial, of course.