policy. Oil industry workers. Power supply. Science and technology investigations. The production task. Goods prices. Consumption funds. Construction projects. Round-table talks. Top-level negotiations. Sick pay. Pension insurance. Key task. World peace. A peace supporter. A lecture hall. A correspondence course. A first year student. An open-air stadium.
B.Labour productivity growth. A twenty-year agreement. A trade union congress. A four-power treaty. A ten per cent wage increase. Foreign language studies. The lec tures and consultations time-table. International Atomic Energy Agency. United National Security Council. Second-year post-graduate science student. Continuous action computers. Scientific weather observations. Transmission line performance. Galvanometer photoe lectric tube feedback amplifier.
ИМЯ ПРИЛАГАТЕЛЬНОЕ
3. Дополните следующие словосочетания подходя щими по смыслу существительными.
Модель: essentially correct
The idea is essentially correct.
Quite distinct, quite understandable, slightly different, somewhat surprising, highly operative, completely un clear, quite surmountable, paradoxically simple, princi pally correct, absolutely obvious, essentially specula tive, purely academic, fairly instructive, fully under-
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standable, practically inaccessible, basically correct, highly reliable, rather competent, entirely obscure, pri marily speculative.
4. Переведите следующие предложения.
The author's agreement is wrong. His conclusions are surprising. The inconsistency of his idea is obvious. His treatment of the question is doubtful. My interest in this problem is academic. This principle is operative. This in strument is sensitive. This method is practicable. The author's analysis of this question is competent. His criti cism of Brown's work is understandable.
5. Переведите предложения, учитывая различные способы выражения степеней сравнения.
А.1. This radius is the same length as that.
2.These materials are the same hardness as those.
3.This device is the same price as that.
4.This method is hardly as operative as the other.
5.Our studies are hardly as fruitful as theirs.
6.My interest in this subject is hardly as academic as yours.
7.My understanding of this problem is hardly as pro found as his.
8.This chemical element is not so common as the other one.
9.This characteristic is not so distinct as the others. 10. These changes are not so pronounced as the others.
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В. 1. It is the most impressive achievement of modem sci ence.
2.It is the most promising field in modem physics.
3.It is the commonest element on the earth.
4.It is the least possible explanation of the result.
5.It is the least interesting communication at the semi nar.
6.It is the most reliable technique for measuring the en ergy values.
7.It is the most important point of his report.
8.It is the most impressive result of this work.
9.It is the most surprising outcome.
10.It is the most convincing evidence for this relation ship.
11.It was the most productive period in the history of science in the 19th century.
СЛОВА-ЗАМЕНИТЕЛИ: it, that, this, these, one
6.Переведите предложения.
1.The reaction is easier to control in methylene chlo ride since it is mn at the reflux temperature of the solvent.
2.The apparatus is identical with that described above.
3.He obtained a series of compounds. These proved to be rather pure.
4.Methylene attacks secondary hydrogen bonds many times as fast as it does the primary ones.
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5.This substance reacts one tenth as fast as the other one.
6.The problem to be solved at this stage is an entirely geometric one.
УСИЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ МЕСТОИМЕНИЕ it (it is ... that, which, who)
7.Переведите на русский язык.
1.It is this book that must be found at the library.
2.It is he, who did it.
3.It is noteworthy that the hydrogen bond makes it possible for electrons to travel in a circular path.
4.It is in this respect actually that the theory differs from that discussed above.
5.It is these ions which actually transport the current.
6.It is the data which are reliable.
7.It is from this book that we get our first information about the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles.
8.It was in 1895 that the first radio set was demon strated.
9.It was Popov who invented die radio.
10.It was in the laboratory that I found these details.
ll.lt was not until I was through with my experiment that I left the laboratory.
8. Переведите предложения с оборотом there + to be.
1.There are different methods of metal treatment.
2.There exist various forms of matter.
3.There are many papers on this problem.
4.There must be an interesting article on this subject in the magazine, which I gave you yesterday.
5.There may be some mistakes in these calculations.
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6.There has been an interesting discussion on that subject today.
7.There were many books at the library on the prob lem of your investigation.
МОДАЛЬНЫЕ ГЛАГОЛЫ
9. Переведите предложения, содержащие модаль ные глаголы и их эквиваленты.
1.This result can be easily obtained.
2.This difficulty can be understood by everybody.
3.Such changes could be predictable.
4.Such difference is to be recognizable.
5.Such problem is to be approached.
6.This method might be usable.
7.This interpretation has to be accepted.
8.This conclusion might be justifiable.
9.Such experiments can be unrealizable.
10.These values could be incomparable.
11.This process can be uncontrollable.
12.Such transformations can be unobservable.
10. Переведите предложения с модальным значени ем в прошедшем времени.
1.We were able to follow this process in a previous experiment.
2.We were able to find this relation in a previous study.
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