Переведите следующие предложения, содержащие пассивные конструкции.
1. The car was stopped.
2. My friend will be offered this job.
3. This specialist will be sent to our factory.
4. I was asked to help them.
5. This engineer is often seen at our plant.
6. When will he be bought a new computer?
7. Nobody knows when the wheel was invented.
8. These letters were brought in the morning.
9. What was he promised?
Ключи к заданиям 4, 5
Задание 4: 1 – b; 2 – c; 3 – a; 4 – b; 5 – a; 6 – d; 7 - c
Задание 5: 1 – 3; 2 – 2; 3 – 1; 4 – 1; 5 – 3; 6 - 3
Unit 7
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Text 7
The Cabbies Are Smarter Than Google Maps
London has the most informed cab drivers in the world – and they’ve got diplomas to prove it. To become a certified taxi operator in London, a driver must first pass “the Knowledge”, an extraordinarily difficult exam that involves the detailed recall of 25,000 streets within a six-mile radius of London’s Charing Cross railway station. But that’s just the beginning. Cabbies must also memorize the ‘points of interest’ along the routes including streets, squares, clubs, hospitals, hotels, theatres, embassies, government and public buildings, railway stations, police stations, courts, diplomatic buildings, important places of worship, cemeteries, parks and open spaces, sports and leisure centres, places of learning, restaurants and historic building. Plus they have to be fluent in English.
Most drivers take three years to master the Knowledge, and much practice by tracing the routes on a bicycle. It’s not uncommon to see future cabbies pedaling through the city in the early morning with plastic-covered maps clipped to their handlebars. Drivers must know their directions backwards and forwards, which is a complicated task in the maze of London’s one-way streets and blocked-off pedestrian zones.
The testing process isn’t quick, either. The exam comprises a six-month series of evaluations that includes written, oral and practical tests, and only one-quarter of the candidates make it through.
Taxi-driver applicants must be ‘of good character’, meeting strict requirements1 regarding any criminal record2. During testing Knowledge boys and girls must, without looking at a map, identify the quickest and most sensible route between any two points in metropolitan London that their examiner chooses.
But there is an additional benefit for those who pass the exam. In 2000, researchers at the Welcome Trust in London scanned the brains of 16 London taxi drivers and found that each cabby’s hippocampus – the area of the brain associated with memory – was larger than that of control subjects. Scientists believe that the hippocampus grew larger as the drivers spent more time on the job. Storing and retaining that much information could actually be a prescription for avoiding dementia.
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Notes
1 meeting strict requirements - отвечая строгим требованиям
2 criminal record - судимость
Words
cabby - таксист
map - карта
prove - доказывать
involve - включать
route - маршрут
embassy - посольство
court - суд
worship - поклонение
cemetery - кладбище
handlebar - руль
maze - лабиринт
pedestrian - пешеход
include - включать
oral - устный
applicant - кандидат, претендент
sensible - разумный
benefit - польза, выгода
researcher - исследователь
brain - мозг
retain - удерживать, сохранять
prescription - рецепт
avoid - избегать
dementia - слабоумие
Переведите следующие предложения, учитывая значения модальных глаголов и их эквивалентов
1. I can give you my book for a couple of days.
2. You must work hard at your English.
3. The children cannot carry that box: it is too heavy.
4. May I take this book for a little while? - I'm sorry, but I must return it to the library at once.
5. The lecture is to begin at three.
6. She had to stay at home yesterday because she did not feel well.
7. Nobody could tell me the way to the post office.
8. I think, she will not be able to solve this problem.
9. May I ask you a question?
10. The chief must be in his office now.
11. The mixture is to be heated before the experiment.
12. I think, you will not have to wait for them long.
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13. You should consult the doctor before using this medicine.
14. Will you be able to send him e-mail tonight?
Переведите следующие сложноподчиненные предложения
1. When the Roman Empire collapsed the roads gradually got into a very bad state.
2. Rapid spread of railways in the United Kingdom was due to George Stephenson who was an enthusiast and a brilliant engineer.
3. The House of Lords can ask the House of Commons to rewrite certain parts of a bill before it becomes a new law.
4. The Anglo-Saxons, who invaded England in AD 350, came from Germany, Denmark and Holland.
5. The Anglo-Saxons spoke the Germanic language which became the basis of Old English.
6. London taxies are often called cabs, from the French word 'cabriolet', which is a nineteenth-century word for a coach drawn by a horse.
7. In Britain there are many different types of music and groups that you can enjoy.
8. British people who want to make films often go to America because British film industry is not so big.
Unit 8
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