III. Письменно переведите предложения, обращая вни­мание на перевод инфинитива и

герундия.

1. The victim of a crime, if he is alive and conscious is the first person to be interviewed.

1. Learning rules without examples is useless.

3. I want to master the language of this country to understand the life and dreams of the people.

4. To defend our Motherland is the sacred duty of every citizen.

5. Education is one of the main methods in fighting crimes com­mitted by juveniles.

4. Письменно переведите предложения, обращая внима­ние на правила согласования времен.

1. Speaking on the foreign policy of Russia the speaker said that the interests of the country had been, were and would be inseparable from the cause of world peace.

2. The judge said that the court had established all the facts of the crime and had passed its sentence.

3. We were told that many foreign scientists and public figures would come to this country next year.

4. He was asked if the Militia helped those who had served their terms to get jobs.

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The Law

The Law and the Church are powerfully connected with the His­tory of Britaine. Both judges and bishops sit in the House of Lords, and are honored with ancient titles. Both reached the top of fame in Victorian times. Both have been intensely conservative and resistant to change - as their votes in the House of Lords showed.

The Victorian prestige of the law is expressed in the Royal Courts of Justice, built in 1880 when the legal profession was at its height. A broad doorway leads into a medieval hall. Ordinary dark-suited men carrying blue or red bags walk into a room by the entrance, and appear a few minutes later proudly wearing horse-hair or nylon wigs and flowing grows. There is a

custom in many countries requiring judges, prosecu­tors and lawyers to wear gowns and even wigs.

The conservatism of English lawyers is reinforced by their strict division into solicitors and barristers - found only in New Zealand, South Africa, New South Wales and Great Britain. Only solicitors are allowed to deal directly with the public. Solicitors are qualified lawyers, acting as advocates in the court. They can also act as general legal advisers.

There are approximately 60,000 solicitors in practice and their offices with the name-plates of firms of solicitors are an everyday sight in cities and towns in England and Wales. Solicitors can have one-man practice or they may have several solicitors in partnership. This gives them the opportunity to specialise to some extent, in a definite branch of law so that one partner may spend all his time on coneyancing, an­other is able to deal with litigation, another can deal with probate and trust and so on. In some of the lager London firms there are more than 20 partners and this means that each really specialise in a branch of law which he is interested in.

Most barristers are professional advocates presenting civil and criminal cases in courts. In practice they may also have a great deal of paper work in the pretrial stages of a case. But barristers are not allowed to from partnerships.

Notes:

conveyancing - составление актов передачи прав собствен­ности на недвижимость.

litigation - гражданский судебный спор.

probate and trust - доказывание действительности завещания и учреждение доверительной собственности.