A.
1. Four fifths of our customers are satisfied with our products.
2. The picture was attentively looked at.
3. They've just signed an important contract.
4. 1 was very tired when I arrived home. I'd been working hard all day.
5. We saw an accident while we were waiting for the bus.
6. Who does this umbrella belong to? I've no idea.
7. It is very interesting to watch this device in action.
8. He understood the text after he had read it again.
9. Mathematics is of great importance for engineers.
10. Let them analyse the results of the test.
B
a. Have you ever used this type of machine?
b. The newspapers are usually brought in the morning.
c. They had been conducting this experiment for two hours before you came.
d. It is very difficult for me to work and study at the same time.
e. At first I thought I'd done the right thing, but soon I realized that I'd made a serious mistake.
f. Let me explain the phenomenon in detail.
g. The Sun is the most important body in the Universe for mankind.
h. The children at Sparta were given a military education.
i. Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?
j.The television was on but nobody was watching it.
Упражнение 5.
Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на сказуемое с модальным глаголом или с эквивалентом модального глагола.
1. The student ought to have been careful while working with this instrument. Now the instrument is broken.
2. I can translate this text without a dictionary.
3. - Did they find your house? - Yes, it took them a long time but they were able to find it.
4. This evidence must provide some new facts.
5. You will have to show the equation to your teacher.
Упражнение 6.
Выберите правильный вариант и переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. I shall go there provided you ______ to accompany me.
A will consent
B consent
C have consented
2. If it rains the race _____
A will be postponed
B are postponed
C will postpone
3. Don’t worry! All your expenses______
A will pay
B had been paid
C are paying
4. There _____ no news today.
A are
B is
C have been
5. He is fond of _____ speeches in public.
A makes
B making
C doing
Вариант №5.
Переведите письменно текст на русский язык.
WARNING ТО DRIVERS: DON'T USE THE MOBILE WHEN MOBILE
The use of mobile phones while driving is severely criticised in the latest edition of theHighway Code. Evolution has failed to imbue human beings with the skill to perform both tasks simultaneouslywithout risking an accident. We cannot be trusted even with hands-free telephone equipment since the brain work involved in nattering can leave too little concentration for driving.
It warns: "Never use a hand-held mobile phone or microphone when driving. Find a safe place to stop first".
ROAD RAGE
Along with Big Ben, red double-decker buses, and the pigeons that lived in Trafalgar Square until Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, decided to banish them, the black cab is one of the most recognizable symbols of the capital. But London's cabbies are worried that a perverse regulation may drive them off the streets. The wrangle involves allegations of monopoly dealing, pits the claims of
safety against environmentalism, and highlights the perils of devolution. The regulation is not the brainchild of some crazed European bureaucrat, but anancient domestic one.
London's first recorded cab journey took place in 1588. The requirement for cabbies to know the capital like the back of their hands - or, to give the rite its proper title, to "do the knowledge" - derives from the Great Exhibition of 1851, when there were widespread complaints about ignorant drivers. The first cab with an internal combustion engine hit London's streets in 1903.
The regulations issued by the Public Carriage Office (established in 1850, but now under the auspices of the mayor's Transport for London) state that cabs must be able to perform a u-turn in a space not more than 8,535m wide. Transport for London says that the rule ensures the necessary manoeuvrability, and guarantees that passengers can hail a cab from the wrong side of the road.
But critics say that other towns have modernised their regulations, and that the rule should go the same way as the requirement for Hackney carriages to carry a bale of hay.
London's cabbies must hope that the mayor has more affection for the black cab than he was shown to pigeons.
Упражнение 1.
