Exercise 8. Answer the following questions, using the words in brackets.
1. What was Jane’s attitude towards Ken and Belinda’s coming to the Snack Shop?
(to feel smb; to grow rigid; to be tight with anger; to be inexcusable; the common sense; to miss smb; to join smb; to be jealous; to feel out of place)
2. Did their arrival change a usual course of talk among the friends?
(to indicate a shy pleasure; to look guileless; a newcomer; to try one’s charms on smb; to grab the conversation; to gather smb into the fold; to be inclined; to bypass; to switch to; to show off for smb)
3. How did the girls show that they were beginning to resent Belinda’s presence?
(to know better; to turn handsprings; to talk across the table; to drown out; to get serious about; to nominate; to exclude)
4. What did Jane do to improve her position? Did she succeed?
(a box of mascara; an eyebrow pencil; to set one’s hair; a ritual; a make-up; to remain plain; to flutter one’s eyelashes; to assume a coyness; perseverance; to be bowled over by smth; to be baffled; to treat smb like; to shy away; to worsen; to regard dubiously)
5. What stroke of luck came to Jane’s revenge?
(to pull up at; to climb in; to regard closely; to exhibit; to decide on; to be anxious to do smth; not to see much of smb; to be inseparable; to anticipate; to show smb a time; to use as a stopgap; to give smb prestige)
6. Why was Jane’s triumph short-lived?
(to test the motor; to collect an audience; to be delighted; to hang around; to have a finger in the pie; to take smb for a ride; the final insult; to peep through the blinds; a high spot; to wave good wishes; to roll away)
7. What feelings seized Jane when the Cadillac rolled away?
(bitterly; to stand for nothing; to bury; to say good-by to smth; to occur; to dramatize; to be hurt; jealousy; an affliction)
8. Was testing the motor as successful as Ken had anticipated? Did Jane feel sorry for Ken?
(to cock one’s head; to purr; to bend over; to be at fault; bits of brass; to hit the nail on the head; to lose one’s temper; haste makes waste; to lay down the law; to have smth fixed; to shock; the victim; old ties; irretrievably
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