Иностранный язык. Мартемьянова Н.В. - 18 стр.

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   4. It was Theodore Roosevelt who changed the Spanish conflict from a ware to
      liberate Cuba to the building of a union.
   5. It was they who told us the news.
   6. It was not until I reminded him that he brought me my book.
     IV. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них
модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты и переведите предложения на русский
язык.
   1. Some Indians could be as kind in peace times as they were cruel in war.
   2. They would hop and stamp in time to the music furnished by rattles and drums.
   3. You can imagine what a sight the Indians made as they leaped about the flaming
      camp fire.
   4. The child needed shoes, but the mother wasn’t able to buy them.
   5. She had to leave home at eight yesterday.
   6. You must read this book. It’s really excellent.

V. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-го по 3 абзацы текста. Письменно переведите
5, 6 и 7 абзацы.
                  SOME EARLY VISITORS TO NORTH AMERICA
      1. No Indians of the fifteenth century had ever seen a white man until Columbus
and his companions came. White men had really visited America nearly five hundred
years before Columbus arrived.
      2. About the year 1000 a strange ship came to the eastern coast of North America.
She was very long and had many oars, as well as a square sail. A fierce -–looking
dragon decorated the prow. The men in the ship had long golden hair, blue eyes, and
fair skins. They were Norsemen.
      3.The Norsemen, or “Vikings”, as they were called in their own country, had
always been daring sailors. Their searoving had led them to the discovery of Iceland,
and some Norsemen had gone to live there.
      4. Leif was one of the Vikings. It was Leif who sailed south of Greenland, to the
eastern coast of North America. He noticed first a land covered with stones. He called
this country Helluland, “the land of flat stones”. Going farther south along the coast,
Leif saw a land of forests and named it Markland, “the forest land”.At a place still
further south some of his men went ashore. They returned with bunches of grapes. Leif
called the grape country Vineland. Helluland was probably Labrador; Markland, Nova
scotia; and Vineland may have been Massachusettes.
     5. A few years later some Norsemen liked Vineland so well that they built a small
village there. They traded with aboriginal Americans used to come to their village. One
day a bull belonging to the white men broke loose and frightened the Indians away. A
great number of them returned in a few weeks. They waved their cubs angrily at the
Norsemen and began to throw stones. Two Norsemen were killed by the Indians.
Fearing more trouble from the Indians, the Norsemen left Vineland. They came to
America no more.
     6. The story of these voyages was told and retold by the Vikings in Iceland. These
explorers did not know that they had found a new continent. Nothing ever came of