VI. Продолжите предложения, выбрав правильный вариант в соответствии с текстом и переведите полученные предложения:

1. Tidal waves may be caused by

9. tides and winds.

10. jet airliners.

11. earthquakes or volcanoes.

12. mild ocean breezes.

2. A catastrophe is a

9. volcano near the sea.

10. pleasant experience.

11. mark of punctuation.

12. disaster of some kind.

3. The term "tidal wave" misleads because

9. tides do not cause tidal waves.

10. tsunami are not really waves. .

11. it omits mention of seaweed.

12. volcanoes are tides, too.

4. Tidal waves can travel

9. a few inches at a time.

10. only to the nearest island.

11. a few hundred miles.

12. thousands of miles.

Вариант XV

I

Переведите предложения. Определите видовременную форму и залог сказуемого.

1.The matter hasn’t bee settled yet.

2.That film was shown on TV last week.

3.The plan will be changed a little if you want.

4.America was discovered by Columbus in 1492.

5.The ground was covered with snow.

6.The table is made of expensive wood.

7.The mail has just been sent off.

II. Преобразуйте предложения, сделав дополнение подлежащим. Внесите соответствующие изменения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1.Mary thought about the children.

2.The headmistress sent for the pupil’s parents.

3.Everybody laughed at John.

4.Nobody lived in the house.

5.Nurses looked after patients.

6.You must listen to the lecture.

7.We have paid for these books.

III. Переведите следующие предложения. Подчеркните герундий.

1.Mary has just finished writing.

2.He talked without stopping.

3.She thought of going to the country for the weekend.

4.She disliked living in her old house.

5.My mother likes cooking and she is very good at it.

6.Do you mind my asking you a difficult question?

7.He postponed going to New-York as he felt ill.

8.This city is really worth visiting.

IV. Переведите предложения. Подчеркните инфинитив.

1.I think I shall be able to solve this problem.

2.We found that there was another complicated problem to consider.

3.She had two younger brothers to take care of.

4.She was too foolish to understand my explanations.

5.She is pleasant to look at.

6.He was the first to come.

7.To play chess was his greatest pleasure.

8.The child did not like to be washed.

9.Which is more pleasant: to give or to be given presents?

V. Переведите текст:

Causes of forest fires.

A forest fire is an unenclosed and freely spreading combustion that consumes the natural fuels of a forest. Combustion is another word for fire, and natural fuels can be litter, grasses, shrubs, trunks, branches, and leaves; basically any vegetable matter in the forest that can burn.

Natural causes of forest fires such as lightning are most likely to occur when the weather is hot, dry, or windy. Also when there are thunderstorms because thunder and lightning often occur in pairs. El Nino is an ocean warming and leads to climate changes all over the world. The name is Spanish and is believed to be a cause of forest fires. El Nino happens when weakening trade winds allow the warmer water from the western Pacific to flow towards the east. This flattens out the sea level, builds up warm surface water off the coast of South America, and increases the temperature of the water in the Eastern Pacific.

More than 50 % of fires are man-made. Some are purposely set to drive out unwanted animals, clear ground for farming, grazing, or development, to get rid of unwanted underbrush, even to fertilize the soil. Forest clearing accelerates as population expands and pressures to exploit natural resources increase. Much of the expansion into forested areas uses the cheapest form of cover removal: fire.

Sometimes fires are even set to prevent forest fires. Firefighters use fire wisely and under selected conditions to clear forest and debris. These small fires are set in order to prevent larger ones in case of lightning or careless humans. It also helps many plants reproduce and increases food for wild animals. Therefore National Forests pose the greatest fire risk because no fires are deliberately set there.

Other fires are set accidentally by careless campers who don’t know how to put out a campfire correctly, or by smokers who toss away their burning cigarette butts.