Английский язык. Жесткова М.В. - 29 стр.

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1. The scientists consider their discovery to produce great changes in the field of
electronics. 2. They watched the plane go up until it became quite a small spot up in the sky. 3.
We saw a man jump off the moving train. 4. The Management of the Railway expects a number
of passengers to be increased in summer. 5. Bad weather conditions made pilots switch over to
automatic control.
VI. Укажите, чем выражено определение в следующих словосочетаниях и
переведите их.
1) a car developing a speed of 140 km/h; 2) the traffic safety rules; 3) the ways of
improving passenger traffic; 4) a new device to be installed in the laboratory; 5) the driver fined
for over-speeding; 6) the train approaching the station; 7) safe and reliable means of
transportation; 8) tickets bought in advance; 9) large-scale construction; 10) new track-laying
machines to be used in constructing the line.
VII. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на разные
типы условных предложений.
1. If I were you, I would follow his advice. 2. If she would have gone there by air, she
had come on time, but there were no tickets. 3. Had the tunnel be bored, the road would have
been 30 km shorter. 4. If the weather conditions are favorable, the construction of the bridge
will be completed in time. 5. Were electric motors used, cars would not contaminate the air,
would be practically noiseless and very easy to control.
VIII. Задайте вопросы к подчёркнутым словам
(если подчёркнуто сказуемое, то
задайте общий вопрос).
1. Long steel bars on which the trains run are called the rails
. 2. Express trains stop only
at a few
stations on their way. 3. Many old vehicles can be seen in the museum of transport. 4.
There are
special lanes for buses on some streets. 5. Railway engineers have designed a lot of
devices which find their application in other branches of industry. 6. Machines replaced
hard
manual labor of loaders. 7. They had to stop to fuel the car.
8. The seats of modern design have
been fitted in the automobile
.
IX. Перепишите и переведите текст.
HOW TO AVOID TRAVELING
(after G. Mikes)
Travel is the name of a modern disease, which started in the mid-fifties and is still
spreading. The patient grows restless in the early spring and starts rushing about from one
travel agent to another, collecting useless information about the places he doesn’t intend to
visit. Then, he or usually she, will do a round of shops* and spend much more than he or she
can afford. Finally in August, the patient will board a plane, a train, a bus or a car and go to
foreign countries along with thousands of his fellow-countrymen, not because he is interested in
or attracted by some place, nor because he can afford to go but simply because he cannot afford
not to. The result is that in the summer months (and in the last few years during the winter
season too) everybody is on the move**.
What is the aim of traveling? Each nationality has its own different one. The Americans
want to take photographs of themselves in different places. The idea is simply to collect
documentary proof that they have been there. The German travels to check up on his

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