Оригинал на английском:
26. А. Stricken is the past participle of the verb /о strike, its old form. You can still find it in some compounds. Think and say how you can explain the meanings of these words:
grief-stricken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
terror-stricken
drought-stricken
B. Complete these sentences using the compounds from part A.
1. At that moment it occurred to me that I was just wasting my time. The girl was She was trembling all over and couldn’t concentrate on what I was telling her. 2. He was _ on the thought he might never play again. 3. The _ areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies. 4. Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became__ 5. The suburbs of big cities are sometimes _ and their dwellers live from hand to mouth. 6. Gladys was _ after losing her whole family in a car accident. 7. The town was _ after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood. 8. This area in central Africa is often _, which causes a lot of problems among the population. 9. Every time she thought about the coming exams she was She thought she would never be able to pass them. 10. Isn’t it a shame that in this _ country a small minority of people have money to burn.
grief-stricken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
terror-stricken
drought-stricken
B. Complete these sentences using the compounds from part A.
1. At that moment it occurred to me that I was just wasting my time. The girl was She was trembling all over and couldn’t concentrate on what I was telling her. 2. He was _ on the thought he might never play again. 3. The _ areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies. 4. Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became__ 5. The suburbs of big cities are sometimes _ and their dwellers live from hand to mouth. 6. Gladys was _ after losing her whole family in a car accident. 7. The town was _ after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood. 8. This area in central Africa is often _, which causes a lot of problems among the population. 9. Every time she thought about the coming exams she was She thought she would never be able to pass them. 10. Isn’t it a shame that in this _ country a small minority of people have money to burn.