Arakin 4 kurs new 001 176. indd

13. Finish the sentences in your own words
1. My visit to Eastern Europe ....................................... 
2. The Russia of Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky and Herzen ......................
3. By comparison with the eighteenth-century canals of Leningrad, 
which might have been part of Amsterdam or Bremen, ..................... 

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4. I was immensely impressed by ................................. 
5. The creative intelligentsia, such outstanding people as Sakharov, 
Solzhenitsyn, Yevtushenko ................................... 
6. Jazz was officially disliked, but ...................... 
7. The theatre and ballet had changed little since the revolution, 
......... 
8. I learned much from these visits to Russia, restricted though 
they were ...........................
9. But series of short visits, at intervals of over a year, can give you 
a sense ...........................
10. I learned that the Russians, like us, were human beings, ........... 
14. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
1. nature of
a functional
2. erratic
b obscenity
3. necessary
c positions
4. meticulously
d splendour
5. total
e trends
6. grimly
f totalitarianism
7. mediaeval
g destruction
8. key
h illusions
9. hair-raising
i restored
10. underlying
j ally
Write ten sentences incorporating these word combinations.
15. Explain what is meant by:
to expunge it from the consciousness of the people; to be part of a com-
mon civilisation; to be meticulously restored; a building as grimly func-
tional as the Party it housed; signs of the cultural thaw; hair-raising 
obscenity; to provide smb with a library of sense-impressions.