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     Exercise 3. Answer the question as in the model.
     Model: - What don’t you play with those boys? Are they too
            noisy?
            - Yes, exactly. They are too noisy to play with.
      1. Why don’t you look forward to your vacations? Are they too
far away? 2. Why didn’t you work in that room? Was it too crowded?
3. Why didn’t you listen to the lecture? Was it too boring? 4. Why
didn’t you sit through the concert? Was it too long? 5. Why didn’t
you sit down on that stool? Is it too low? 6. Why don’t you cut bread
with this knife? Is it too blunt? 7. Why don’t you like to talk to Mike?
Is he too dull? 8. Why can’t you rely on Peter? Is he too forgetful?

     Exercise 4. In not more than 80 words write a story entitled
                «Ideal holiday as I imagine it».


                             LESSON 17
     I. Exercise 1. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.
      1. The book was translated in time. 2. This work will be finished
tomorrow. 3. The article has been translated into Russian. 4. This
novel was written two years ago. 5. French has been taught here since
last year. 6. Newspapers are delivered every day. 7. I was invited to the
party yesterday. 8. This book is much talked about. 9. These rules will
be revised at the next lesson. 10. This picture was taken last month.

     Exercise 2. Change the form of the verbs in the sentences from the
                 active into the passive voice.
      a) 1. People don’t use this road very often. 2. The company
employ two hundred people. 3. Water covers most of the Earth’s
surface. 4. They lock the park gates at 6.30 p.m. every evening. 5. How
do they pronounce this word? 6. We wake up the children at 7 a.m.
every morning. 7. We clean the flat every week. 8. They build houses
very quickly now.
      b) 1. They introduced me to Charlie. 2. They described him to
me. 3. They explained the situation to me. 4. They suggested an
alternative idea to him. 5. They cancelled all flights because of fog.

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