ENGLISH FOR JUNIOR STUDENTS

c) to wear, to dress, to put on
1. Come on, Nancy, … your best dress! 2. When Henry Higgins
came to Ascot he was … in tweeds. 3. Mary always … blue. I
suppose she knows she looks nice in it. 4. I think you must … your
new evening dress tonight. 5. Look, the boy is trembling with cold.
Tell him to … properly. 6. It’s popular with young men now to …
beards and long hair. 7. The man we met was … a cotton shirt and
trousers. 8. It was pleasant to see her … in a national costume.
9. Why don’t you … a hat? The sun is very strong. 10. When spring
comes she always … a flower in the button-hole of her costume.
11. “What are you going to … at our fancy-dress party?” – “I think,
I’ll … like a cosmonaut.” 12. They asked me how he was … but I
could not recollect what he was … that day. 13. Why aren’t you …
your rubber boots? The country road is very muddy. 14. Please
help me to … the children. 15. The mother … the child and told
him to wait for her in the yard. 16. She is so beautiful and she …
well. 17. Don’t … your overcoat, it’s very warm outside. 18. “Is she
always … in white” – “Yes, she enjoys … white.” 19. He was still …
when I came in. 20. She doesn’t … glasses on the stage.
d) chance, opportunity, occasion
1. She was afraid she would not get a … to spend a single penny
of it herself. 2. It wasn’t a formal … There was a court case, to
come yet, which would be properly conducted. 3. Though he did
not expect Christine until the morning, there was just the … that
she might already have arrived. 4. It was as though she still had
something to say to me, and could not decide upon the words, yet
waited there for me to give her … 5. What is more formal than a
family dinner? An official … of uncomfortable people, who meet
very seldom, making conversation. 6. It was as if they were only
just in time for a train, they hadn’t a … of saying good-bye. 7. Her
method of attack was so downright and sudden that there was
seldom … to escape. 8. He was a temperate man who touched
alcohol only rarely, but this … demanded to be marked in the true
family tradition.
e) to strike, to hit, to beat
1. Don’t you dare … me! 2. He … his head against the table as he
fell. 3. … a drum gives one great satisfaction. 4. Wife, dramatically:
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