10. The situation was so critical that everyone looked quiet and serious.
5. Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Include the following phrases:
1. I saw at a glance that she had harboured malice.
2. Why should you ascribe to people your own feelings?
3. Surely I'll come to your rescue in an emergency.
4. For all his worthlessness, he got on well with people.
5. Once a casual indiscreet remark caught my attention.
6. I saw an amiable smile and felt at home.
7. How quick you are to form opinions!
8. A cold look of appraisal was turned on me.
6. Recall the situations from the book where the active vocabulary is used.
7. Paraphrase or explain:
1. And yet all round about the epidemic was raging and the people were kept in check but by the strong will of a soldier who was more than half a brigand.
2. He told her nothing of his work, but even in the old days hi had been reticent on this: he was not by nature expansive.
3. ... it was difficult to imagine, on that blithe, fresh, and Hulling morn, that the city lay gasping, like a man whose life is being throttled out of him by a maniac's hands, in the dark clutch of the pestilence.
4. ... but the Mother Superior paid no attention to her entreaties and Kitty stood sufficiently in awe of her not to be importunate.
8. Point out historical, political or social causes behind the state of things:
1. "... We English have no very strong attachment to the toil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, ..."
2. She had grown used to the untidiness of a Chinese street, but here was the litter of weeks, garbage and refuse; and the stench was so horrible that she had to put her handkerchief to her face.
3. Two of our girls have been attacked this morning and nothing but a miracle can save them. These Chinese have no resistance.
9. Find the underlying reasons for:
1. She shuddered a little, for in their uniform dress, sallow-skinned, stunted, with their flat noses, they looked to her hardly human. They were repulsive.
2. "The lady's husband will be pleased with them," ... "I think he could play by the hour with the babies...."
3. By some magic he seemed able by his mere presence to relieve your suffering.
4. 
She alone had been blind to his merit.
5. There was a barrier between her and them (the nuns)
6. ‘It is not easy work or pleasant work. I doubt if it would amuse you long."