Гущин Андрей, 131 группа

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wb, p.18, ex.1
a)
2 - In a nutshell
3 - In other words
4 - to cut a long story short
5 - what I meant was

c)
2 - to cut a long story short
3 - in other words
4 - what I meant was
5 - to put it another way
6 - that is to say

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wb, p.18, ex.2
a)
2 - e
3 - g
4 - a
5 - f
6 - b
7 - c
8 - d

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p.129, ex.3c
1.
- I wouldn't travel by foot to China if I were you.
- Why not?
- In a nutshell it's very long road and you will probably die along the way.

2.
- I had a terrible time when I went to donate some blood.
- What happened?
- Well, to cut a long story short doctors had a hard time finding my veins so they tried to take blood from different places on my arm about six times.

3.
- I shouldn't have said such praises about novel of Matvey.
- Why not?
- Well, what I meant by that was he needs much more practice, but his text is already pretty good. 

4.
- I think that your drawing is absolutely perfect!
- Really?
- That is to say, I never seen such beautiful images before.