VI. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту:

1. What do America's wildland firefighters have to endure to protect nation’s natural resources from the ravages of unwanted wildfire?

2. What does a fire manager do when a wildfire starts?

3. How many firefighters are there in an engine crew?

Вариант IX

I. Переведите предложения. Определите видовременную форму и залог сказуемого.

1.My question was answered yesterday.

2.His new book will be finished next year.

3.Flowers are sold in the flower shops and in the streets.

4.The clock is being repaired now.

5.This play will be staged at the beginning of May.

6.Many important experiments were made in this laboratory.

7.These trees were planted last autumn.

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

1. Nobody lived in the house.

2. The senior students laughed at the freshmen.

3. We often speak about her.

4. I have paid for these flowers.

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

6. I was waiting for him at 5o’clock yesterday.

7. Everybody will talk about him tomorrow.

III. Переведите следующие предложения. Подчеркните герундий.

1. Repairing cars is his business.

2. Living in little stuffy rooms means breathing poisonous air.

3. On being told the news she turned pale.

4. I understand perfectly your wishing to start the work at once.

5. He keeps insisting on my going to the South.

6. She likes being stared at because she thinks she’s attractive.

7. The place is 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:

NEWS IN BRIEF

MARCH 17, 2005 - What started as a small fire turned into a six hour ordeal for local firefighters, who battled a constantly rekindling blaze into late Wednesday evening. Workers and residents in downtown Wilmington had a front row seat for the fire when it started around mid-afternoon. The stubborn blaze was burning on the Brunswick County side of the Cape Fear River. It was a smoky fire, sending up a thick plume of smoke, even as the rains continued to beat down the flames. The fire was burning at a boat salvage yard. Firefighters had a hard time reaching the flames and finally putting them out. They were looking for hot spots until about 10:00 Wednesday night. No one was hurt and there was no significant damage.

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A huge fire engulfed a Rhode Island nightclub, trapping patrons in the building and resulting in at least one death, fire officials said.

The fire broke out at about 11 p.m. Thursday during a pyrotechnics display during a Great White concert at The Station in West Warwick.

Jack Russell, the lead singer of Great White, told that he checked with the club's manager before the show and the band's use of pyrotechnics was approved. He said he felt the heat of the flames while on stage. "This place went up like the Fourth of July," he said.

The West Warwick Fire Department confirmed there were injuries, but could not immediately say how many.

Television footage showed giant flames flying into sky, and several clubgoers were seen being taken away in ambulances. Providence television station WLNE reported at least 30 ambulances carried injured people from the nightclub to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence and Kent County Memorial Hospital in neighboring Warwick. Great White is a 1980s heavy metal band whose hits include "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "Rock Me."