Little Apples

NADIA N.’S VACATION HOMEWORK

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Give five examples of relative clauses.

Not too long ago Rushia waged war on foreign parts, by the way killing many Turks

The railroad is screechy, carries people, and is maid of rails and materials.

Beef is maid of bulls and cows, while mutton is maid of sheep and baby lambs.

Papa was passed over for a medal, so he got angry and retired due to domestic reasons.

I adore my friend Dunya Walk-on-Waters-kaya for her diligence and attention in class and for being skillful at introducing me to the hussar Nikolai Spiridonich.

Give five examples of word agreement.

During Lent, priests and men of the cloth refuse to marry newlyweds.

Peasants live in country houses both summer and winter, beat their horses, but are terribly unclean, for they are bespattered with tar and refuse to hire maids and porters.

Parents give their daughters to military men who have a fortune and their own house.

Young boy! You must honor your papa and your mama, and thus you will be a pretty child and loved by everyone in the world.

No chance had he for one last sigh, As the lunging bear did upon him fly.

COMPOSITION

How did you spend your vacation?

The instant I passed my examinations I left with Mama, our furniture, and my brother Ioanni, a third-year lycée student, for our summer dacha. We were visited by: Katya Kuzevich with her mama and papa, Zina, little Egor, Natasha, and many other friends of mine, who took walks with me and embroidered out of doors. There were a lot of men, but us maidens kept away from them and paid no attention to them whatsoever. I read many books, among them Meshchersky, Maikov, Dumas, Livanov, Turgenev, and Lomonosov. Nature was at its zenith, the young trees growing in rampant profusion, no ax having yet sought out their robust trunks, and the delicate foliage cast a breezy, all-engulfing shade over the reedy soft grasses speckled with the gilded tips of buttercups, an azure spray of bluebells, and crimson cloves. (Teacher’s note: evidently lifted from Turgenev’s “Silent Moment”!) The sun rose and it set. Where it rose there was a herd of birds flying. There was this shepherd who was shepherding his sheep, and there were some clouds floating under the sky. Oh how I do love nature! My papa was jittery all summer long. The evil bank wanted to take possession of our house just like that, and Mama never left Papa’s side as she was afraid he would take his own life. I had a very good vacation because I studied science and comported myself very well. The end.

ARITHMETIC

Three merchants invested capital in a trading enterprise, which within a year brought them a profit of 8,000 rubles. Question: How much did each receive if the first merchant invested 35,000 rubles, the second 50,000, and the third 70,000?

Answer: To solve the problem, one has to begin by figuring out which of the merchants invested the most money. This can be done by taking the three amounts and subtracting them from one another, from which we see that the third merchant invested most, as he did not invest 35,000, or 50,000, but 70,000. Fine. The next step is figuring out how much each of the merchants received, for which we must divide 8,000 into three parts so that the largest part will go to the third merchant. Division: three goes into eight two times. 3 x 2 = 6. Fine. Subtract six from eight which leaves you with 2. Add a zero. Subtract eighteen from twenty which again leaves you with two. Keep adding zeros till the end. The result is 2 rubles and 666 and 2/3 kopecks, which leads us to deduce that each merchant should have received 2 rubles and 666 and 2/3 kopecks, and the third merchant a little bit more.