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1. He reluctantly gave … … the pressure.
2. He dotes … his children.
3. When the husband came home late again, she decided to have it … with him immediately.
4. Have you made it … with your sister yet?
5. Michael is devoted … his family.
6. I yielded … temptation and had a chocolate bar.
7. Sometimes we have to make concessions … each other to stop quarrelling.
UNIT 15. ATTITUDES LEADING TO AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.
Glossary:
· Ill-bread -rude or behaving badly, especially because your parents did not teach you to behave well.
· Self-assured – calm and confident about what you are doing. Noun self-assurance.
· Unforgiving (disapproving) – someone who is unforgiving does not forgive people easily. Opp. forgiving.
· Crude – offensive or rude, especially in a sexual way.
· Submissive – always willing to obey someone even if they are unkind to you. Noun submissiveness.
· Peevish – easily annoyed by small and unimportant things; bad-tempered. Noun peevishness.
· Quarrelsome – someone who is quarrelsome seems to like quarrelling. Noun quarrelsomeness.
· Unscrupulous – behaving in an unfair or dishonest way. Noun unscrupulousness.
· Treacherous ['tretﻜәrəs] – someone who is treacherous cannot be trusted because they are disloyal and secretly intend to harm you. Noun treachery.
· To cheat on sb. – to be unfaithful to your husband, wife, by secretly having romantic relations with someone else.
· Aversion (to) – a strong dislike of someone or something.
· To fret (about/over) – to feel worried about small or unimportant things, or to make someone feel like this.
· To sulk – to show that you are annoyed about something by being silent and having an unhappy expression on your face.
· To turn into a tyrant ['taiәrənt] – to become someone who has power over other people, and uses it cruelly or unfairly. Noun tyranny ['tirәni].
· To be under sb’s thumb (=to bring sb. to one’s heel= to forcesomeone to behave in the way that you want them to ) – to be strongly influenced by someone that they control you completely.
· To withdraw into – to become quieter, less friendly, and more concerned about your own thoughts.
· To elope – to leave your home secretly in order to get married. Noun elopement.
· To sue for divorce – to make a legal claim in order to end a marriage.
· To fight for the (child’s) custody (of) – to fight for the right to take care of a child, especially when the child’s parents are separating from each other.
· To pay alimony – to pay money that a court orderssomeone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after their marriage has ended.
I. Replace the underlined words with a word that has a similar meaning.
1.His offensive jokes were insulting.
2. Michael was a cunning and dishonest politician.
3. Nick was totally under his wife’s thumb.
4. The kids were easily annoyed after so long in the car.
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5. Despite his strong dislike to publicity, Arnold was persuaded to talk to the press.
6. Martin expects his wife to be meek and willing to obey.
7. I think Winnie’s been unfaithful to him, but he can’t prove it.
II. Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. They designed a … plot to overthrow the leader. (treachery)
2. His air of self-assured confidence made him a born leader. (assurance)
3. She heard a … note in his voice. (quarrel)
4. Her husband turned into a real …. (tyranny)
5. I wonder what makes a man so … and hard? (forgiveness)
III. Fill in the gaps using the words from the glossary.
1. Nick was always … over something or other.
2. He was ordered to pay … to his wife and two children.
3. The little girl seemed to … into a private world.
4. In most divorce cases the mother is awarded … of the children.
5. Stuart’s … because I told him he couldn’t go out and play.
6. His … upstart criticizing everyone else had become really annoying.
Topic: YOUTH PROBLEMS.
UNIT 16.
Glossary:
· Nihilism ['naiəlizәm] – the idea that all social and political institutions should be destroyed. Noun nihilist, adj. nihilistic.
· Frustration – the feeling of being annoyed, upset, or impatient, because you cannot control or change a situation, or achieve something.
· Drug-addiction (dependency) – the need to have something regularly because you are addicted to it. Adj. addictive.
· To abuse [ə'bju:z] (disapproving) – to deliberately use something for the wrong purpose; to treat something, especially power or knowledge, as an opportunity to gain an advantage for yourself; to drink or take so much of something that it harms your health; to treat a person or animal in a cruel or violent way. Noun abuse [ə'bju:s].
· To smuggle – to take something or someone illegally from one country to another. Nouns a smuggler, smuggling.
· To blunt (the senses) – to make a feeling less strong.
· To hush up (sweep under the carpet) – to prevent the public from knowing about something dishonest or immoral.
· To combat – to take action in an organized way in order to oppose something bad or harmful. Noun combat.
To annihilate [ə'naiəleit] – to destroy something or someone completely. Noun annihilation.
· Belligerent – very unfriendly or unpleasant. Noun belligerence, belligerency.
· Discontented (with) – unhappy or not satisfied with the situation you are in. Noun discontent.
· (To drink) to excess – to do something too much or too often, so that it may harm you.
· To take to drink – to start drinking a lot of alcohol regularly.
· To have a drinking bout – to have an attack or period of illness.
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