Три сотня exercise 2. complete the sentences with reflexive pronouns (yourself, herself, himself etc.) i can do it he made a cup of tea. don’t play with the knife; you can hurt tom prefers living by there are computer games where you can play you always win! i am proud of alan made this he cut with the knife while he was sharpening it. she often talks when she is upset. exercise 3. form abstract nouns from the following adjectives. wise – good – vacant – sweet – human – free – proud – brave – novel – poor – exercise 4. fill in the gaps with one of the following words: darkness, accept, imagination, beyond, to manage, based on, fight, gradually the origin of fear lies in the unknown. be it the darkness, ghosts, weather calamities or whatever is unknown to the man is feared the most. if you are walking in (1) you are afraid to go ahead, fearing what will come next. however, as the light appears, the fear tends to settle down. fear, thus, is just a manifestation of your (2) ruled by cowardliness. when we get certain information on our fears, we get relaxed. however, it’s not going to be possible that we will always get the information on the unknown. then what can we really do (3) our fears? accept your fears: there’s no need to fight your fears. the more you (4) the more they will haunt you. if you accept them the way they are, they will bring a shift in your consciousness necessary to move (5) the fear. fear is normal: there’s nothing to be embarrassed about in being afraid. if you are afraid, then you are. society has connected fear with the sign of weakness and that is one of the reasons why we hate to accept that we are afraid. when you (6) fear as a normal emotion, it doesn’t bother you anymore. explore the unknown: every year, make a list of things that you fear the most. then, do something everyday that gets you closer to the unknown factor residing in your fear. ( you will overcome all your fears one by one. know the roots: go into the source of your fear. some fears are (8) past conditioning. having a good understanding of the roots from where it all started will help in moving toward state of fearlessness.
myself
himself
yourself
himself
yourself
myself
yourself/yourselves
himself
himself
herself
3
Wisdom
Goodness
Vacancy
Sweetness
Humanity
Freedom
Pride
Bravery
Novelty
Poverty
4
Darkness
Imagination
To manage
Fight
Beyond
Accept
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