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) Solicitor misadvises. 2) Solicitor does the unnecessary work when property is bought and sold. 3) Solicitor defends people in the higher courts of law. 4) A barrister undertakes work except through a solicitor. 5) Solicitor prepares and delivers the client's instructions to a judge. 6) Solicitors hold a consultation with clients. 7) Solicitors compose documents. 8) Solicitors carry on negotiations. 9) Solicitors prepare cases for lawsuit. 10) Barristers retain solicitors for advice on special matters. 11) Solicitors retain barristers for advocacy before the lower courts. 12) Solicitors act in all courts as the agents for litigation. 13) Solicitors don't act in all courts as representatives of their clients. 14) Solicitors may appear as advocates only in the higher courts. 15) If one wants to make a will the best man to advise him is a barrister. 16) If one gets into trouble with the police one can ask a barrister to help prepare his defense.

3. Запишите форму множественного числа существительных.

A carpet, a man, sugar, a glass, hair.

4. Заполните пропуски артиклями, если это необходимо.

4.1. My grandmother is … school teacher.

4.2. I saw … new film on TV yesterday. … film was not very interesting.

4.3. I have … breakfast at 8 o'clock.

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

5.1. He has been writing letter for two hours.

5.2. Mike usually doesn’t work much but now he’s working very hard preparing for the control test.

5.3. Katrina speaks on the foreign language. Just now he’s speaking Spanish on the phone.

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

6.1. Завод производит автомобили (вообще).

6.2. Завод производит автомобили (сейчас).

6.3. Завод произвел 3 тысячи автомобилей (на сегодняшний день).

6.4. Завод производит автомобили с 1950.

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

1. Milk (to drink) every day.

2. The telegram (to receive) next week.

3. Nina (to send) to Minsk yesterday.

4. She (to ask) at the lesson tomorrow.

5. I (to read) a very interesting book.

Вариант XVI

1. Переведите текст, используя словарь. Запишите перевод.

Court and its people

Court is a building or room where all the information concerning a crime is given so that it can be judged. A court is a complex institution whose functioning depends upon many people-, not only the judge but also the parties, their lawyers, witnesses, clerks, bailiffs, probation officers, administrators, and many others, including, in certain types of cases, jurors. Party is one of the persons or sides in a legal dispute. Lawyer is someone whose job is to advise people about laws, write formal agreements, or represent people in court. Witness is someone who sees a crime and can describe what happened. Clerk is an official in charge of the records of a court. Bailiff is an official of the legal system who watches prisoners and keeps order in a court of law. Probation officer is someone whose job is to watch, advice, and help people who have broken the law and are on probation. Probation is a system that allows some criminals not to go to prison, if they behave well and see a probation officer regularly, for a fixed period of time. Juror is a member of a jury. Jury is a group of 12 ordinary people who listen to details of a case in court and decide whether someone is guilty or not. Nevertheless, the central figure in any court is the judge. Judge is the official with authority to hear and decide how criminals should be punished. Judges vary enormously, not only from nation to nation but often within a single nation. For example, a rural justice of the peace in the United States – untrained in the law, serving part-time, sitting alone in work clothes in a makeshift (made for temporary use) courtroom, collecting small fees or receiving a pittance for salary. He bears little resemblance to a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States – a full-time, well-paid, black-robed professional, assisted by law clerks and secretaries, sitting in a marble palace with eight colleagues and deciding at the highest appellate level only questions of national importance. Yet both persons are judges.

Clerk - секретарь суда; bailiff - судебный пристав; probation officer - чиновник, надзирающий за лицами, направленными судом на пробацию; probation - пробация, опека (вид условного осуждения); nevertheless - тем не менее; public officer - публичное должностное лицо; rural justice of the peace - сельский мировой судья; part-time - занятый неполный рабочий день; makeshift - временный; fee - гонорар; pittance for salary – скудное жалованье; appellate – апелляционный.