A. 1. He belongs to a new trend in linguistics/His ideas are in keeping with a new theory in linguistics. 2. I have known it since I was a child/a teenager. 3- Evidently the boy was beaten either by his schoolmates or by someone he met on the way home from school. 4. At eighteen Andrew found himself alone, a first-year student at St. Andrew University. The University gave him forty pounds a year, and that was his only source of income. 5. After dinner there is a period of recreation before afternoon classes, 6. When (he was) a child he was a bad pupil/his teachers were dissatisfied with his progress/his teachers didn't think much of him and as a rule gave him bad marks. 7. Rain's arrival created a stir. The eyes of all the teachers and pupils were turned away from the cricket field. 8.1 was in a better position of course, because I knew everybody there/Of course, I had the advantage of knowing everybody there/I was one-up, of course, because I knew everybody there. 9- They profited by our disadvantages and did it with remarkable speed. 10. It was obvious that she was far better than the other teachers/that she outshone the other teachers. 11. Because one man agrees that we (they, you) have been defeated (Because one man acknowledges defeat/having been defeated/being defeated, it doesn't mean that everybody else does. 12. Sam was taken into his master's confidence. 13.1 tried to spare you. In all fairness you must acknowledge that I did. 14. The fascists devastated/ ravaged/destroyed many towns and villages. 15. Too much stuff is thrown away in the house. 16. Caroline had foolishly spent/squandered her life on being hopelessly devoted to a man who did not deserve it. 17. She looked at the girl and knew well that argument or reason would be lost on her/that there would be no point in using argument of reason. 18. He is Russian to the core/He is every inch a Russian/He is Russian through and through. 19- He said he would help us but didn't do anything/but didn't lift a finger/but didn't keep his word/but broke his promise/but went back on his word. 20.1 will keep my word (promise)/! shall not break my word (promise). 21. Can you say the alphabet not from A to Z but vice versa? 22. Why did you say the alphabet not from A to Z but from Z to A? 23. Why did you hold back/conceal the fact? 24.1 hope you will support my plan. 25. She always tries/She always does her best not to attract attention.
В. 1. We need extra help, I think. 2. Haven't I done all that was demanded of me/all that I was supposed (expected) to do? 3- Everyone must obey the law. 4. I'm sure documents must be produced there. 5. Anyway you needn't see/don't need to see them again. 6. She had an infinite capacity for patience when patience was needed. 7. It would take two hours to assemble everybody. 8. The neighbour heard the little girl call the woman "mother"/address the woman as "mother". 9. What 1 have to say concerns all of you. 10. Historians date the fall of Rome to/from 410 A.D./Historians say that Rome fell in 410. 11. He believed the cause of his depressions was the illness he had had when he was a child/He ascribed/put down his depressions to his childhood illness. 12. All the parts are connected to each other. 13. You can give the landlord my respect, if you like, and tell him I hope he doesn't fly off the handle as often as he used to. 14. Among the excellent and decided characteristics of General Fesmond's wife, gentleness was less obvious than the rest. 15. If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, irascible soldier who had been his lather... 16. Your younger son shows (up) great intelligence. 17. He proudly showed/demonstrated the variegated smears < >1 paint on his heavy dressing gown. 18. The old man was insaliably curious about the galleries and the painters who exhibited in them. 19. He is quite a nice fellow. 20. He has always been nice to me. 21. Salvia had not the delicacy to show even,i moment of hesitation.
