so mad as a hatter.
7 They were thinking of taking farer action when suddenly the lynx offered her help.
8 She insisted on going with the friends because she knew the place far gooder than them and could lead them to the underground laboratory.
9 Everybody except Luna was absolutely happy to have such a large fearless companion.
EXERCISE 10
Choose the correct option:
1 The kitten is ***** the lynx but they became very good friends, which made Luna feel jealous.
a a few times smaller than
b few times smaller
c a few times as small as
2 ***** friends the lynx and Kit became, ***** Luna looked.
a The closer / the gloomier
b The more close / the more gloomy
c Than closer / than gloomier
3 Chilly has tried to convince Luna that the lynx is ***** animal they have ever met.
a the wild most gracious
b the most gracious wild
c most gracious wild
4 ***** Chilly was, *****Luna sounded.
a Than more convincing / more angrily
b More convincing / more angry
c The more convincing / the angrier
5 Cuba wasn’t ***** to have such a new member of their team, but she didn’t show it.
a very fascinated
b absolutely fascinated
c extremely fascinated
6 She found ***** piece of puzzle in the lynx’s cave but has had no chance to tell her friends about it yet.
a an old little dirty
b a dirty little old
c a dirty old little
7 The group of friends left the cave at dawn and headed for a ***** mountain, at whose foot the laboratory was hidden.
a huge dark grey and brown
b dark huge grey and brown
c huge dark grey brown
8 It took them several hours to get to the mountain and everybody was *****.
a very tired and hungry
b absolutely tired and hungry
c very exhausted and starving
9 Cuba’s feet were killing her and she lay down on ***** grass and refused to move *****.
a cool emerald green / further
b cool green emerald / farer
c emerald green cool / farther
EXERCISE 11
Translate the story:
Все настолько выдохлись, что никто не возражал, когда Рысь предложила немного отдохнуть, прежде чем пытаться проникнуть в лабораторию.
Чилли и Кит (как настоящие мужчины) отправились на поиски воды и какой-нибудь еды, а Луна, Куба и Рысь остались на лужайке возле подножья горы.
Вблизи гора казалась абсолютно невероятной – совершенно гладкая, без какой-либо растительности, похожая больше на башню, чем на скалу. Она была нереально красива, переливалась всеми оттенками серого и притягивала к себе своей прохладой. Трудно было представить, что где-то внутри пряталось настоящее зло в лице безумного ученого.
Это было странно еще и потому, что рядом с горой собаки совсем не ощущали никакую угрозу, наоборот, от нее исходило какое-то спокойствие и безмятежность.
Когда Чилли и Кит вернулись с рюкзаком полным грибов и орехов, собаки уже крепко спали, спрятавшись в высокой траве. Рыси нигде не было видно…
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Unit 6
Adverbs
The main difference between adverbs and adjectives is that adjectives are used to describe nouns while adverbs are used to describe verbs, participles, adjectives, other adverbs or whole sentences: The view was incredible. It was incredibly picturesque.
We can say adjectives answer the question what kind? and adverbs answer the questions how? or in what way? (adverbs of manner) where? (adverbs of place), when? (adverbs of time), how much/to what extent? (adverbs of degree) or how often (adverbs of frequency). There are also sentence adverbs (probably, maybe, etc.) and relative adverbs (where, why, when).
A lynx
