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Portion 4 (chapters 1-5)

HOMEREADING

PART TWO

‘FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS’

I. Translate the following words and expressions and give the situation they were used in:

1. to feel like killing something

2. it would not do (to be found)

3. hair trigger

4. to place somebody under arrest

5. to act up

6. to get busted

7. to determine the outcome

8. to remain inconspicuous

9. to handle the transaction

10. blocks

11. to be in charge

12. cranked-up

13. sanctuary

14. to do the Big Spit

15. to track somebody down

16. Consensual Sodomy

17. junkie

18. to flip over someone

19. to stuff oneself down the incinerator

20. child molesting

21. to be entitled to legal counsel

22. pineal gland

23. sockets

24. artificial respiration

25. to black out

II. Questions:

1. What was Duke afraid of? Were all of his fears really reasonable?

2. How do you think, why did he throw the journal after reading only a single story in it? What was that story about?

3. Describe Raul Duke’s new car.

4. How did the Flamingo look like when the author came in there?

5. What happened at the registration desk? Did Raul Duke enjoy the scene that was going on there?

6. What was Raul Duke looking forward to on his way to the room and how did the reality turn out for him?

7. Who was Lucy? What did she do in the room?

8. Where did Dr. Gonzo meet Lucy for the first time? What happened after?

9. What were Duke’s suggestions to solve the problem with the girl?

10. What was the journalist worrying about?

11. In what way the problem with Lucy was solved?

12. What kind of a phone call was received by Duke in the hotel room?

13. How did he imagine the aftermath of the incident with the girl?

14. What did Dr. Gonzo tell to the poor creature on the phone?

15. According to the information given in the book, what is adrenochrome? How did it happen that it had fallen into the hands of the attorney?

16. What effects did the drug have on Duke? What did he see while being geeked up?

III. Give your explanations and speak on the following:

· They would lock me in some hellhole of a jail and beat me on kidneys with big branches – causing me to piss blood for years to come…

· There are limits to what the human body can endure.

· In Las Vegas they kill the weak and deranged.

· But this time our very presence would be an outrage.

· But some acid victims – especially nervous mongoloids – have a strange kind of idiot-savant capacity for remembering odd details and nothing else.

· The hero was doomed; he had already sown the seed of his own downfall….

· ‘As your attorney, I advise you not to worry’

IV. Translate the following into Russian:

· Surgery Uncertain After Eyes Removed…………..his eyes./chapter 1, p.101-102/

· After much…………happened to her./chapter 3, p.115-116/

· ‘I don’t know…….unspeakable ends!’/chapter 4, p.126-127/

· He stared………raccoon/chapter 5, p.132-133/

Portion 5 (chapters 6-9)

HOMEREADING

PART TWO

‘FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS’

I. Translate the following words and expressions and give the situations they were used in:

1. to get down to

2. to produce an odd effect

3. to resemble

4. undercover cop

5. irrelevant gibberish

6. to exaggerate reality

7. to come to terms with

8. to flee

9. to chop smb’s head off

10. repugnance

11. to get hooked

12. to run fender to fender

13. pusher

14. to pay a lot of muscle

15. well-connected hooker

16. starter

17. racks

18. to compel one’s attention

19. to break down

20. dope peddler

II. Answer the questions:

1. Who was Dr. Bloomquist? What was his book about?

2. What kind of feelings did Duke and his attorney have about the Drug Conference?

3. How does the author describe the effects of the mentioned in the book drugs?

4. Why did Dr. Gonzo and Duke leave the Conference?

5. Who did they meet at the bar and what conversation did they have there?

6. What happened on the road? How did Dr. Gonzo behave like?

7. What did Raul Duke think about all of that situation and what feelings did the attorney provoke in him?

8. According to Thompson’s words, how can you distinguish the Northern part of Vegas from the center of that city?

9. In what way did the attorney’s behavior change when they entered the North Star Coffee Lounge?

10. How did the waitress look like?

11. Why did she start to scream and how did Dr. Gonzo calm her down?

12. How did it happen that the characters confused some waitress and Lou at an all-night dinner in North Vegas? What did want from them? What is so sarcastic and funny about that situation?

III. Speak on the following:

· ‘The reefer butt is called a ‘roach’ because it resembles a cockroach…’

· ‘ Know them? Are you kidding? Man, I know these people in my goddamn blood!’

· If You Don’t Know, Come to Learn… If You Know, Come to Teach

· ‘But now, Jesus, nobody’s safe. They could turn up anywhere’

· No reply. No sign of recognition. They’d been warned about this kind of crap: Just ignore it….

· ‘We’re looking for the American Dream, and we were told it was somewhere in this area…..’

IV. Read and translate the following into Russian:

· Indeed………..The Chief/chapter 6, p139/

· I refused…………….sensation/chapter 8, p.153/

· The “high side”………the National Guardian /chapter 8, p.155-156/

· Let me explain…………..Las Vegas area/p164-165/

Portion 6 (chapters 10-14)

HOMEREADING

PART TWO

‘FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS’

I. Translate the given words and expressions. Give the situations they were used in:

1. to make the turnoff

2. to be only half listening

3. to hit the brakes

4. to get one’s stuff together

5. medieval judge

6. fraud

7. larceny

8. nightmare lawsuit

9. defendant

10. to obtain a ruinous judgment

11. to be undercover

12. consumption

13. to inquire about

14. to be genuinely twisted

15. bail

16. to put the cuffs on somebody

17. to put somebody on the spot

18. dementia

19. to adjust

20. jolt

II. Answer the questions:

1. What’s happened on the way to the airport? What adventures was Duke talking about?

2. How much was left before takeoff and what was the attorney afraid of?

3. According to Raul Duke’s words, what rules of Vegas had he abused? Why had he done it?

4. How does the author describe the mentality of the city and what example does he give to paint it up? What soup did his friend get into while being in Vegas?

5. What does the author call by “this doomstruck era of Nixon”? What period of time does he compare it to?

6. How did the hotel room look like?

7. What did the main characters do to the hotel maid? How did they play her up and what was the result of it?

8. Why did Duke fail to buy the ape he wanted?

9. What conversation happened between Duke and Bruce?

10. Who was Bob Zimmerman and what story was connected with him?

11. How did Duke introduce himself and his attorney to the bouncers?

12. What thoughts was Raul Duke in at the airport?

13. In what way was the clerk fooled round? How did the whole story end like?

III. Give your explanations and speak on the following:

· ‘Man, that’s one place I’ll never go back to’

· One of the crucial moments of the Sixties came on that day when the Beatles cast their lot with Maharishi.

· ‘You were after the evidence! Who put you up to this – the manager?’

· We just put this thing together for demonstration purposes….

· This man will never be able to walk straight, Captain! Because one leg is longer than the other…

· Nobody had learned anything – or at least nothing new.

IV. Read and translate the following into Russian:

· Item………………even sane /chapter 11, p.177-178/

· But it couldn’t……………without relief/chapter 12, p.187-188/

· Ship Commander Butchered………..James Garrison/chapter 13, p. 200/

· She began…………..totally confident/chapter 14, p. 203-204/