Exercise 2. Translate the text without dictionary

Honest workers or thieves [1, p. 104].

Once upon a time, Paul Feldman dreamed big dreams. Trained as an agricultural economist, he wanted to tackle world hunger. Instead, he took a job in Washington, analyzing weapons expenditures for the US Navy. He held senior - level jobs and earned good money, but he wasn’t fully engaged in his work. At the office Christmas party, colleagues would introduce him to their wives not as “the head of the public research group” (which he was) but as “the guy who brings in the bagels”. In 1984, when his research institute fell under new management, Feldman decided to quit his job and sell bagels. His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him.

Driving around the office parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to a company’s snack room, he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers. Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8.400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had made as a research analyst.

Exercise 3. Read the poem

She Walks In Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

J. G. Byron

Exercise 4. Listen to the text and mark the sentences True or False[Part III p. 159-160],

[1, T. 7. 5, p. 130].

	TRUE	FALSE
When Paul Feldman started his business he thought that 95% of the people would pay for their bagels.
Paul Feldman started his business in Kazakhstan
Smaller offices are more honest than big ones.
When the weather is unusually good, more people pay for their bagels.
Before Christmas and Thanksgiving, people are more honest

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