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Bell Canada Sees Reward

Bell Canada, the country’s biggest telephone company, expects to post a 40 per cent jump in net income this year.

The expected increase, the first in three years, comes in the face of intense competition in long-distance services, and the entry of cable-TV operators and other competitors in the local market.

About 35 per cent of the improvement will come from an increase in local rates, which came into effect at the beginning of this year.

But much of the rest will be attributable to cost-cutting and higher revenues from phone services, such as a “call waiting” signal and access to incoming callers; phone numbers.

Operating expenses are expected to drop slightly this year, despite a 6.8 per cent advance in revenues. Bell’s workforce is due to shrink to 45,300 at the end of this year.

Bell said yesterday it was gaining more long-distance customers than it was losing. However, most of these were, small residential users, so that its market share in revenue terms was slipping.

Грамматические упражнения

1. Образуйте форму множественного числа у следующих существительных.

a fish a suit

a child a foot

an actor an orange

2. Вставьте вместо пропусков местоимения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Have you got some cheaper pens? (These/this) are very expensive!

2. Come to the gym with Jim and me. (They/we) are leaving now.

3. Those books belong to him. Those are (its/his) books.

4. Tom hurt (themselves/himself) when he was playing football.

3. Переведите на английский язык следующие предложения, используя в качестве сказуемого формы глаголов “to be”, “to have”

1. Милан – на севере Италии.

2. Моей сестре 6 лет.

3. У него нет друзей.

4. Завтра у меня экзамен по истории.

4. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в форму прошедшего простого времени (Past Simple) в следующих предложениях. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. A couple of friends (to come) with me.

2. How many counties … you (to visit)?

3. I (to have) a great time and I really (to love) it!

4. She (not to like) it at all!

5. Поставьте следующие предложения в отрицательную и вопросительную формы. Подчеркните подлежащее и сказуемое, определите время сказуемого, переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. My son is watching TV now.

2. They pretended to be asleep.

3. He will stay in bed tomorrow, as he is not well.

6. Переведите предложения на английский язык, сказуемые которых употреблены в категории Continuous (Present-Past-Future Continuous).

1. Мы не играем в теннис сейчас.

2. Они будут отдыхать завтра в первой половине дня?

3. Я звонила тебе с 4 до 7 вечера, но ты не отвечал.

7. Задайте 4 типа вопроса к следующим предложениям. Переведите исходные предложения на русский язык.

1. I want to tell you a story.

2. She has always time for this work.

3. They hold the negotiations several times.

8. Переведите текст контрольной работы на русский язык письменно.