flower piece, a conversation piece. 2) photograph, e. g. The picture I took of you last week turned out very well. 3) a perfect type, an

embodiment, e. g. You look the picture of health. 4) a film, e. g. I like to see a good picture once in a while.

picture vt 1) to make a picture, describe in words, e. g. The novel pictures life in Russia before the Revolution. 2) to imagine, e. g.

I can't quite picture you as a teacher.

depict vt to make a picture of, e. g. Perov liked to depict the scenes and types of common life. syn. represent, portray, e. g. The picture represented two Italian women talking. Turner tried to portray the mood of the sea.

picturesque adj giving vivid impression of nature or reality; romantic, e. g. I wonder who lives in that picturesque cottage over

there.

5. paint n, e. g. Constable sometimes used a palette knife to apply the paint instead of a brush.

paint vt/i 1) to put paint on, e. g. They painted the door white. 2) to make a picture by using paint, as to paint from nature, e. g.

Ceremonial portraits were painted according to formula. Turner excelled in painting marine subjects. 3) to describe vividly in words,

e. g. You are painting the situation too dark.

painter n an artist, as painter of battle-pieces, genre painter, landscape painter, portrait painter.

painting n 1) the act, art or occupation of laying on colours, e. g. Painting has become his world. 2) a painted picture, as an oil

paintings, still life paintings, a collection of paintings, an exquisite piece of painting, syn. canvas, e. g. An oil-painting caught and held him ... he forgot his awkward walk and came closer to the painting, very close. The beauty faded out of the canvas.

6. colour n 1) as bright (dark, rich, cool, warm, dull, faded) colours, e, g. The dancers wore tight-fitting dresses of richly glowing colours, colour scheme combination of colours, e. g. Gainsborough's pictures are painted in clear and transparent tone, in a colour

scheme where blue and green predominate. 2) materials used by painters, e. g. Turner constantly used water-colour for immediate

studies from nature, to paint smth. in (dark) bright colours to describe smth. (un) favourably, e. g. The headmaster painted the school's

future in bright colours. 3) the red or

pink in the cheeks, e. g. She has very little colour today, off colour not feeling well; in low spirits, e. g. He's been feeling rather off colour lately.

colour vt/i 1) to become coloured, e. g. The leaves have begun to colour. 2) (fig.) to change in some way, to make a description more exciting, e. g. News is often coloured in newspapers

coloured adj having colour, as cream-coloured; flesh-coloured; a coloured print; a multicoloured handkerchief, e. g. I'll make

myself one white and one coloured dress for the summer. When they were wet the pebbles were multicoloured and beautiful.

colourless adj without colour; pale; (fig.) without interest or character, as a colourless story (person); ant. colourful.

colouring n style in which the thing is coloured, as gaudy (subtle) colouring, e. g. His drawing is good but his colouring is poor.

colourist n an artist whose works are characterized by beauty of colour, e. g. As a colourist Gainsborough had few rivals among

English painters.

7. doubt n uncertainty of mind; lack of certainty; a state of uncertainty, e. g. There is (there can be) no (not much, some, great,

slight) doubt about it. I have no (not much, little, not the slightest) doubt that he will come. I have doubts as to his intentions, no

doubt certainly, e. g. She will no doubt cope with the work.

doubt vt/i to be uncertain, as to doubt the truth of smth. (the facts, smb.'s ability to do smth., etc.), e. g. Do you doubt his honesty? to doubt if (whether) smth. is correct (true, wrong, smb. will do smth.), e. g. I doubt whether he will come, not to doubt that, e. g. I don't doubt that he will come. Do you doubt that he will come?

doubtful adj uncertain; not definite; hesitating, e. g. Tha weather ' looks very doubtful. He's a doubtful character, to be (feel)

doubtful as to, e. g. I'm doubtful as to what I ought to do.

8. select vt to pick out, esp. for its superior qualities, as to select a gift (a suitable person, the best singers, the most typical cases, the best samples, etc.), e. g. They selected a site for the monument, syn. choose, pick, e. g. The small girl chose the biggest apple in the dish. I picked this way because it was the shortest.

selection n choice; a collection of specially chosen examples, as natural (artificial) selection; selections from Shakespeare (Russian composers, etc.); poetry, prose selections; a good selection of paintings (goods, etc.), e. g. This department store has a

good selection of hats.

9. size n 1) a degree of largeness or smallness, e. g. It was about the size of a pea-nut. 2) one of a series of numbered classes, e.

g. What size shoes (gloves, collar) do you wear? — Size 36 shoes. I want a hat a size smaller (larger). They bought him a coat a

size (two sizes) too large (small) for him.

-sized adj (in compounds) having a certain size, as medium-sized; a life-sized portrait, e. g. I want medium-sized pajamas.

10. effort n trying hard, as a heroic (tremendous, last, strong, great, desperate, etc.) effort; continued (constant, vain) efforts, e. g. It was such an effort to get up on those dark winter mornings, to do smth. with an effort (without effort), e. g. He collected himself with an

effort. He lifted the box without effort, to make an (every, no) effort, e. g. I will make every (no) effort to help him. to cost smb. much

effort to do smth., e. g. It cost me much effort of will to give up tobacco, to spare no effort(s), e. g. The police promised to spare no effort(s) in their search/in searching for the missing child.

Word Combinations and Phrases

to be in good (bad) shape

to the cleaner's

at a great sacrifice

to become involved in smth.

to one's health

to execute a picture (a statue)

to take up art (painting)

to exhibit (smth.) in a show a lifetime dream a mature artist

to avert a disaster

to become a laughing-stock

to look at smb./smth. appraisingly

to be accepted for the show an inconspicuous place

a box of water-colours

to blush

a tube of oils

to the top of one's ears the close of the exhibition

to send smth.

to award a prize (a medal)

READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

1. a) Listen to the recording of Text Five and mark the stresses and tunes, b) Repeat the text in the intervals after the model.

2. Put fifteen questions to the text.

3. Copy out from Text Five the sentences containing the word combinations and phrases given on p. 148 and translate them into Russian.