Вариант 4

I. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление времён группы Continuous (Present, Past, Future) в действительном и страдательном залогах. Выпишите сказуемые и укажите их видовременные формы.

1. On the first underground railways the oil and gas lamps were used while the passengers were travelling.

2. Russian car-building plants are producing more comfortable cars.

3. Prefabricated units are being widely used to speed up and cheapen the construction of the new section of Moscow Metro.

4. Engineers will be testing a new engine tomorrow.

5. Our train is standing at the platform ready to leave.

II. Перепишите и переведите предложения, поставив глагол в нужную форму.

1. Many new automatic devices (to use – Present Continuous Passive) on railways.

2. The freight train (to move – Past Continuous Active) at a high speed when the engine driver saw that the line was damaged.

3. Nowadays crossties are made of wood, concrete, steel; in some countries experiments (to go on – Present Continuous Active) with plastic sleepers.

4. The movement of trains will be stopped on that section of the line because the workers (to replace – Future Continuous Active) the sleepers.

5. The construction of this high-speed line (to support – Present Continuous Passive) by the government.

III. Перепишите и переведите предложения, выбрав правильную форму сказуемого (Active or Passive).

1. The bridge, which (is building; is being built now), will be used for the movement of both road and railway traffic.

2. My friends (are traveling; are being traveled) to the South these days.

3. The surveying party (was examining; was being examined) the route of the future railway all month long.

4. Several newspapers have reported that the Russian and Finnish governments (are discussing; are being discussed) a project for the reconstruction of the Helsinki-St. Petersburg railroad known in Finland as the Eastern Railway.

5. When I came to Baku in 1962, the first Metro line (was building; was being built) there.

IV. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление модальных глаголов и их эквивалентов. Подчеркните модальные глаголы в английских предложениях и в переводе.

1. One should know that bi-level cars or double-deckers are designed especially for tourists.

2. Flat cars of special type can be used for transporting highway trailers.

3. Modern locomotives must have a new system of braking.

4. You need not change the train; it goes straight to the place of your destination.

5. The train couldn't depart from the station, as the line was busy.

V. Образуйте от данных глаголов две формы Participle I. Полученные причастия переведите на русский язык.

Model: to read – a) reading – читая, читающий;b) having read – прочитав

1. to lose

2. to handle

3. to rise

4. to decrease

5. to meet

6. to move

7. to encounter

8. to wear

9. to control

10)to transmit

VI. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление Participle I в функциях определения и обстоятельства. Подчеркните причастия I в английских предложениях и в переводе.

1. Having built the world’s first electric locomotive, Werner von Siemens demonstrated it at the Berlin Exhibition.

2. The refrigerator car makes it possible for people living in the most distant places to have fresh fruits and vegetables all the year round.

3. Many large stations have special container handling cranes and other equipment.

4. While running tramcars produce much greater noise than the trolley-buses.

5. Being electrified, the railway will have a higher density of traffic.