2. Согласитесь со следующими утверждениями или опровергните их (по тексту задания №1).

Образец: 1. Scotland Yard was created in 1829.

I agree.

2. Scotland Yard was created in 1929.

I disagree. Scotland Yard was created in 1929.

1) Crime is predominantly an activity of the aged. 2) The peak period for involvement in minor property crime is advanced age. 3) For involvement in more serious crimes the peak age is awkward age. 4) Criminality tends to decline after the age of 90. 5) The decline of criminality after the age of 30 is an unnatural effect of aging. 6) The decline of criminality after the age of 30 is the consequence of taking on family burden. 7) The decline of criminality after the age of 30 is the effect of experiencing simultaneously contradictory feelings towards relatives. 8) All types of crime are subject to decline with aging. 9) Older men commit bank robbery and hijacking. 10) Sudden crimes of violence may occur at baby age. 11) Criminality is not closely associated with social origin. 12) Criminality is closely associated with pains of unknown origin.

3. Запишите форму множественного числа существительных.

A baby, a girl, a tape, a kiss, a tree.

4. Заполните пропуски артиклями, если это необходимо.

… moon was shining softly, spreading its golden light over … the ocean. Carlos and I spent … whole night talking; when … sun came up … stars slowly vanished on … horizon.

5. Определите время, в котором использованы глаголы, в следующих предложениях.

5.1. When Mike arrived at the theatre he found that the play had begun and the actors had been playing on the stage for some minutes.

5.2. When he entered the room Peter realized that he had not only forgotten to take the text-book, but had left notebooks as well.

6. Переведите предложения на английский язык, употребляя Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous.

6.1. Он обычно ждет ее здесь.

6.2. Сейчас 6 часов. Он ждет ее (сейчас).

6.3. Он ждет ее уже полчаса.

6.4. Она приготовила замечательный пирог.

7. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present, Past или Future Passive.

1. This milk (to give) to my cat yesterday.

2. I (to invite) to a concert last morning.

3. My question (to answer) tomorrow.

4. Football (to play) in the sport ground.

5. Apples (to gather) in autumn.

Вариант IX

1. Переведите текст, используя словарь. Запишите перевод.

White - collar crime.

Crimes committed by business people, professionals, and politicians in the course of their occupation are known as "white-collar" crimes, after the typical attire of their perpetrators. Criminologists tend to restrict the term to those illegal actions intended by the perpetrators principally to further the aims of their organizations rather than to make money for themselves personally. Examples include conspiring with other corporations to fix prices of goods or services in order to make artificially high profits or to drive a particular competitor out of the market; bribing officials or falsifying reports of tests on pharmaceutical products to obtain manufacturing licenses; and constructing buildings or roads with cheap, defective materials. The cost of corporate crime in the United States has been estimated at $200,000,000,000 a year. Such crimes have a huge impact upon the safety of workers, consumers, and the environment, but they are seldom detected. Compared with crimes committed by juveniles or the poor, corporate crimes are very rarely prosecuted in the criminal courts, and executives seldom go to jail, though companies may pay large fines. The term white-collar crime is used in another sense, by the public and academics, to describe fraud and embezzlement. Rather than being crime "by the firm, for the firm," this constitutes crime for profit by the individual against the organization, the public, or the government. Tax fraud, for example, costs at least 5 percent of the gross national product in most developed countries. Because of the concealed nature of many frauds and the fact that few are reported even when discovered, the cost is impossible to estimate precisely. The economic cost of white-collar crime in most industrial societies is thought to be much greater than the combined cost of larceny, burglary, auto theft, forgery, and robbery.

White-collar crime - беловоротничковое преступление (преступная махинация, совершенная служащим или лицом, занимающим высокое общественное положение); attire - clothes; perpetrator - нарушитель; restrict - ограничить; intend - намереваться; further - способствовать осуществлению; conspire - тайно замышлять; artificially - искусственно; competitor - конкурент; falsify - фальсифицировать; pharmaceutical - фармацевтический; corporate -корпоративный; impact - воздействие; detect -обнаруживать; juveniles - несовершеннолетние; embezzlement - растрата имущества; constitute - составлять; conceal - скрывать; larceny - воровство; burglary - ночная кража со взломом; forgery - подделка; robbery - грабеж.