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Задание № 1
Переведите следующие предложения. При переводе выделенных слов замените части речи:
1. Most of the people I spoke to were unhelpful.
2. What is happening in New York will happen nationally.
3. At the age of eighteen, George earned an honest living.
4. The ship was listing badly but still kept afloat.
5. Uncharacteristically, he came over and put his arms around his father and hugged him.
6. She answered questions in monosyllables.
7. After the excitement, she slept heavily and dreamlessly.
8. He spoke so rapidly that I had difficulty understanding him.
9. At the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur, Mrs. Thatcher was predictably unrepentant.
10. People who were central to the civil-rights movement came out in support of the minority groups.
11. He asked me if I lived locally, what my job was and whether he could count on my support.
12. Macon had his pick of seats: window, nonsmoking.
13. There's going to be a thorough investigation into this and the FBI will be involved because we're a federally insured bank.
14. All banks measure profit in terms of earnings per share.
15. Such earnings are widely studied by shareholders, investors and the business community nationally and internationally.
Задание № 2
Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на существительные, образованные с помощью суффикса -еr:
1. The boy was panting. It was quite a strain for him, always a mouth-breather, to have reached the sixth floor.
2. "I hope you won't mind having dinner in the kitchen," Ann said. "Certainly, not. We're a generation of kitchen-eaters," he answered.
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3. These cacti, though slow-growers, make an ideal starting point for the novice.
4. "Certainly," she said, trying to frown — but she was clearly not a frowner.
5. As expected, the Socialists were easy winners in the first round of the elections.
6. Heery burst out laughing. In the great bustle of the last days I had forgotten what a good laugher he was.
7. The reaction of the public was most enthusiastic. Alfred, however, was among the non-responders.
8. Austin was a handsome ageing play-boy type, flamboyant dresser with styled iron-grey hair.
9. Rare and unusual plants — as long as they are also attractive — are doubly fascinating to the keen grower.
10. Above all else, President Bush is a firm believer in the value of personal diplomacy.
11. "You can use my library," Burton said. Andrew was no wobbler. He got up from the chair and came up to the shelves where Burton kept his most precious books on architecture.
12. Even so, the gainers from the liberal economic policies of Mr. Ghandi's early years in power far outnumber the losers.
13. An anonymous telephone caller to a newspaper claimed to have carried out the attack.
14. Mother insisted that we should remove the blue rug from the dining room. "It's a mistake to have a rug where people are eating. It's nothing but crumb catcher," she said.
15. "By the way," Robert said, "the car is not a heavy drinker, so the journey won't turn into a costly affair."
16. Young Jolyon was a good listener; it was his great quality.
Задание.№ 3
Переведите следующие предложения. Там, где это возможно, переведите с помощью других частей речи прилагательные, образованные с использованием суффикса -able:
1. Western politicians were quick to conclude that the process is unstoppable.
2. To make this house livable one has to put a lot of work into it.
3. Alfa Romeo cars all have their devotees and are affordable at £7,000.
4. You will find your new boss quite an approachable person.
5. McLeash had no professional respect for the journalists who tried to cater to the most indiscriminating readers, the easily persuadable, who believe that what they see in print is true.
6. "Oh, dear," thought Scarlett, looking first at herself in the mirror and then at Rhett's unreadable face.
7. I can do anything I choose, anything at all, for now I am answerable only to myself.
8. Apart from seismic activity — which is itself is detectable – there are several reliable precursors of earthquake, among them rodon gas emissions, patterns of foreshocks and behaviour an animals.
9. No matter how powerful the Prime Minister {Mrs. Thatcher) might be, she is still accountable to Parliament.
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10. Even today, 25 years later, the image is inescapable.
Задание № 4
Переведите следующие предложения. Воспользуйтесь знакомыми вам трансформациями, чтобы правильно передать значение выделенных атрибутивных конструкций:
1. The measures will lead to increased graduate unemployment.
2. Our weather luck faltered when we returned north to the Chilean Lake District.
3. To get an expert's opinion on the President's fear of famine, I met with an American population specialist.
4. The man surrendered to the Finnish police and requested political asylum. Finnish authorities will consider the asylum request before deciding what to do.
5. Five of his ministers will soon face corruption charges.
6. Mr. M. was given a one-year suspended sentence for his part in a share scandal involving a small Japanese electronics firm.
7. He was a New York jurist named Joseph Crater whose disappearance in 1930 caused great media interest but remains unexplained.
8. Earthquake scientists did predict the last week's earthquake, but the prediction was approximate.
9. Mr. Baker gave a short press conference before flying to Columbia for the drugs summit.
