25 Point out the infinitive in the following sentences:

1 It's often useful to make a conscious effort to view medical care from the patient's perspective. 2 Needless to say, a disease in a person is not only biological but also a social phenomenon. 3 Nowhere in the constitution is one granted the freedom to harm others for one's personal enjoyment. 4 The vast majority of the human cancers appear to arise as a consequence of interactions between an individual's genome and the environment. 5 Services may be provided in the patient's own home as well as in health facilities. 6 Exposure to ETS is known to cause a number of fatal and non-fatal health effects. 7 Heart disease mortality, SIDS, and lung and nasal sinus cancer are known to be causally linked to ETS exposure. 8 In view of the considerable health impact of passive smoking, particularly on the young, measures to restrict smoking in indoor environments should be a major health objective.

26 Complete the sentences using complex objects with the infinitive:

1 Ann advised me … . 2 The official warned us not … . 3 Let’s … . 4 I’ve never seen her … . 5 You can’t expect me … . 6 My mother wanted me … . 7 Have you ever heard … ? 8 Well, I didn’t actually see him. 9 I expect them … . 10 Let him … . 11 Shall I ask her … ? 12 I want you … 13 The teacher told them … . 14 Everyone saw the man … . 15 I’ve never heard her … . 16 She told me … . 17 I like them … . 18 He watched them … . 19 Her words made us … . 20 I consider him … .

27 Paraphrase the following sentences according to the model:

MODEL: It’s hard to deal with him. – He’s hard to deal with.

1 It’s pleasant to look at her. 2 It’s not difficult to remember the rule. It’s simple. 3 He’s very stubborn. It’s difficult to persuade him. 4 It’s hard to please him. 5 It’s easy to translate this passage. It contains some idiomatic expressions. 6 It’s pleasant to look at the girl, but not at all pleasant to talk her. She’s pretty, but not very clever. 7 It was unpleasant to watch their quarrel. 8 It’s always funny to listen to his stories. 9 It’s not so very easy to answer this question. 10 It’s difficult to explain his behaviour. 11 It’s rather hard to read his handwriting. 12 It’s very pleasant to listen to him. He sings so well. 13 It’s very comfortable to work at this desk. 14 It was very amusing to watch this scene. 15 It was difficult to get along with him.

28 Translate the sentences:

1 Urine, after standing at room temperature for a day or so, was found to teem with extremely minute living creatures. Stale mutton broth or vegetable soups also were seen to contain them, many of which we know were heterotrophic bacteria. 2 The patient was responding to painful stimuli, and all extremities were seen to move except the left lower leg; here deformity of the midthigh was seen with shortening and external rotation, but the toes were noted to move. 3 In infancy, cysts of the quadrigeminal plate are most likely to cause filling defects in the posterior portion of the third ventricle and partial aqueductal obstruction. 4 In blood vessels the white cells are seen to be moving slowly along the sides of the vessels out of the main axial stream which contains the red blood cells. 5 Many viruses are spherical in shape, others are brick-shaped, and some appear to have a small tail or rod attached to the spherical body. 6 At surgery the tumors of the hand and wrist were found to be well encapsulated and were easily removed, except for one lipoma on the dorsum which extended into the interosseous muscles. 7 When examined in respect to their relation's from above downwards, the right and left pulmonary roots are seen to differ from each other. 8 The response associated with increasing glucose load was found to be partly a function of the quantity of glucose injected. 9 Different personal characteristics manifested by differences in thought content seem to be associated with different emotional responses to physical illness and also with different admission patterns. 10 The literature on the effects of previous depressions on the nature of a current depression seems to be restricted to considerations about the psychodynamics of depressions in general and the importance of the reactivation of earlier psychological conflicts. 11 One of the most challenging problems for those interested in cancer control concerns the development of a more nearly adequate treatment for patients found to have cancer of the prostate gland. 12 By fixing the yielding anterior wall of the ventricle to the more solid septum, it is said to prevent over distension of the cavity. 13 Plasminogen activators are present in many tissues and plasminogen activator in the plasma appears to be responsible for the physiological fibrinolytic activity.