Английский язык. Grammar in Progress. Учебное пособие
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14.The reporter will write this article next week.
be
The article … next week.
15.Tom said he had written the letter by 5 o’clock yes-
terday. been
The letter … by 5 o’clock yesterday.
16.Do they often invite you to the cinema?
are
… you often … to the cinema?
Exercise 4. Complete the report by putting the verbs in brackets into the
Present Perfect active (has done) or passive (has been done).
Brazil
Brazil (1) … (transform) from an economy based on sugar and coffee into a leading industrial power, and this (2) … (happen) over a relatively short time period.
Over recent years inflation (3) … (bring) under control, and foreign direct investment (4) … (encourage).
The Government (5) … (privatize) many state-owned companies, and they (6) … (also / invest) a lot of money in advanced infrastructure. In an attempt to decentralize the economy, Campinas was chosen to be Brazil’s IT capital, and car production (7) … (move) away from traditional centres to states such as Rio Grande do Sul in the south. No one pretends that all the old problems (8) … (solve), but Brazil is finally taking its place on the world stage.
Exercise 5. Translate into English, using the Passive Voice.
I. 1. Во время экскурсии пo городу нам показали завод, где производится сталь. 2. Со мной так никогда еще не разговаривали. 3. Книги, которые хорошо читаются, редко найдешь на полках библиотеки. 4. Объяснили ли вам, по-
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чему вам тогда не разрешили принять участие в соревнованиях? 5. Когда мы приехали в Киев, это здание было только что восстановлено. 6. В прошлом месяце, наконец, вышла книга, которую с таким нетерпением ожидали. Сейчас ее широко обсуждают в прессе. 7. Не говори таких вещей, а то над тобой будут смеяться. 8. Мне еще ничего об этом не говорили. 9. Ваш проект уже принят? — Нет, он все еще рассматривается. — Сколько же времени его уже рассматривают? 10. Вас уведомят по телеграфу, как только чертежи будут посланы. 11. Вчера ему предложили новую работу, а она ему не нужна. 12. Он включил радио. Исполняли Наймана, фортепианный концерт. 13. Я не знал, кому меня представляют. 14. На приеме на профессора не обратили внимания, а вокруг его хорошенькой жены развели суету (make fuss).
II.1. Что-нибудь делается, чтобы восстановить это здание? 2. Его еще никогда не принимали за англичанина.
3.В твоей комнате ничего не тронули с тех пор, как тебя послали в санаторий. 4. За каждый пенни нужно отчитаться (account for). 5. Вас когда-нибудь учили, как надо вести себя? 6. Детей угостили мороженым. 7. У меня украли коллекцию марок. Со мной так никогда не разговаривали.
9.Надо что-то сделать для этих людей. 10. Боюсь, что эту вазу нельзя починить. 11.0 его приятеле хорошо отзываются.
12.Моего дядю произвели (promote) в капитаны.
13.Тебе скажут, когда отправляется поезд. 14. Она чувствовала, что от нее что-то скрывают. 15. Будет так темно, что меня совсем не будет видно. 16. Почему так прохладно в зале? — Его как раз проветривают (air). Читальный зал, как вы знаете, проветривается несколько раз в день.
III.1. Больного не будут оперировать без его согласия.
2.Телеграмма была принята поздно ночью, и так как она была очень важной, капитана тут же разбудили и передали
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ему ее. 3. Факты, на которые ссылался свидетель, заинтересовали адвоката. 4. Было рассмотрено много различных маршрутов, а об этом даже не подумали. 5. Проект был в основном одобрен, но архитектору указали на отдельные недостатки. 6. Советую вам пойти на этот концерт: будут исполнены ваши любимые произведения. 7. Нам объяснили новое правило, затем продиктовали несколько примеров и дали упражнения для домашней работы. 8. Не беспокойтесь, о вашем багаже позаботятся, и он будет доставлен в номер.
Exercise 6. Make these sentences passive as in the example:
Example: The government reduced private property to a minimum. — Private property was reduced to a minimum.
1.The government limited private enterprise to a small area in the economy.
2.They permitted the citizens to have personal property.
3. The central authority planned the economy over a number of years.
4.The authorities provided large numbers of workers for the ten new factories.
5.The State organized the whole economic effort of the
nation.
6.The Bank of England provided extra liquidity.
7.The joint venture generated revenue of $2.9bn.
8.James saw Ann in the bank.
9.He commissioned a series of portraits of his family.
10.Congress has approved a bill to raise taxes.
11.I pay my taxes.
12.We met our old neighbours at an auction last Saturday.
13.We watched the children at play in the park.
14.Mother had already cooked dinner when children came home from school.
15.The student hadn’t written the test successfully because he didn’t prepare for it good enough.
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Exercise 7. Use the verbs in the right form (Future Simple Passive or Present Simple Passive):
1.Nobody knows who (to appoint) the company’s chief executive.
2.If he (to engage) they will meet their targets.
3.They hope the sources of demand (to rebalance) soon after these reforms.
4.They do not know when his identity (to verily).
5.If nothing (to do) France (to advise) to maintain stricter budgetary controls.
6.This work (to do) on time.
7.The contract (to sign) by our partners tomorrow.
8.The information (to check) by police
9.English (to speak) here?
10.The house looks very nice; its rooms (to clean) almost every day and its yard (to sweep) daily.
11.Their children (to take) good care of at home?
12.This decision (to think) over when everybody comes.
13.I think; you (to inform) about this vacancy next week.
14.When he (to see), I (to tell).
15.I suppose that our business (not to take) over.
16.I (to give) a dollar every day.
17.He (not to tell) anything about it, I promise you.
Exercise 8. Use the verbs in the right form (Present Perfect Active or Present Perfect Passive):
1.Multinational food and drink companies (to start) to try to pass on price increases to consumers.
2.Talks with Thailand (to interrupt) by the Thai political
coup.
3.Some of the provisions of the agreement (to criticize) by trade economists.
4.A rash of bilateral trade deals (to plan).
5.Over the past few months, a few international groups (to look) to either expand or set up in China.
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6.The market for consumer electronics products in China (to grow) at an average of more than 15 per cent a year since then.
7.Their shocking statement (to release) today.
8.The picture (to paint) lately by Mike.
9.That’s the first time I (to see) you get angry.
10.The police just (to examine) the goods.
11.You (not to do) your homework yet?
12.The celling (to whitewash), and now it looks as a new
one.
13.We (not to meet) before, have we?
14.This summer an extraordinary experiment (to carry) out that worries many scientists today.
15.He (to live) here for many years.
16.I (to be) within my current post as a team manager in mental health for a while.
17.The windows (to clean) and now they look good.
18.They (to complete) the work this week.
19.John and Jack (to see) today, they must have left.
20.She (to see) in her native house recently?
Exercise 9. Underline the correct words.
1.I had my car be repaired/repaired yesterday.
2.Profits are expected/expect to grow by 10% in the next quarter.
3.I was born/born in a little town just outside Dijon.
4.We’re getting the machines cleaned/to be cleaned tomorrow.
5.The Board is thought to be demanded/have demanded his resignation.
6.We have the components assembling/assembled in Tai-
wan.
7.Where exactly were you born/did you born?
8.She is supposed to been looking/to be looking for a new
job.
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9. After he was attacked/was being attacked, he managed to stagger to the phone and call for help.
10. The company can reach/be reached by phone on this number.
11.Are you be prepared/prepared to put your children at risk?
12.It had been broken/is broken into so many pieces, it’ll be impossible to put it back together again.
13.The bottles make/are made of opaque glass so that the contents cannot be seen/ see.
14.She hasn’t written/been written to me recently.
15.No major decisions are being made/made without the CEO’s approval.
16.In August this year, she made/was made redundant from her job at the bank after 15 years’ service.
17.They have written/have been written computer software to handle our sales records.
18.Western investment banks are being allowed/allowed to make a market in Chinese domestic shares.
19.The computer package was specially written/writing for market research purposes.
20.Many employers have been called/called upon to make good the deficits in their pension plans.
21.I’ve been put/put off reading the book by all the hype.
Exercise 10. Supply the required passive forms of the verbs in brackets:
1.Meg (to look) upon as a perfect wife for a clergyman.
2.After his brother’s departure Paul sat for a long time thinking about what (to say). 3. “I’m not prepared”, my father said, “to listen to your suggestions that you never (to treat) fairly at school”. 4. “Remember I (to pay) by an hour”, grumbled the driver. 5. But there were signs that order (to restore) in the town. 6. Well, what (to do) about it, Ted?
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7. He went into the bedroom. The bed (to turn) down for the night by the maid many hours before. 8. Please find out if our father (to see) to leave. 9. She would have gone to Cambridge if she had wanted, she (to offer) a scholarship. 10. On Friday she (to give) two weeks’ notice at the Works. 11. Then the voice announced that the passengers (to ask) to pass through the Customs. 12. I wondered to what extent she (to influence) by his name to accept his offer. 13. Such are the matters that (to deal) with in Mr Burroughs’s book. 14. I found the idea of going to Hereford very upsetting because I (to promise) a very nice job a couple of weeks before. 15. Not far away she noticed the film manager in whose office she once (to make) to feel so ridiculous. 16. “You must be very prosperous, Eustace, to own a car like that”. — “This car (to lend) to me by an American woman”.
Exercise 11. Use the required Passive forms.
The reception was all that (to expect). When we arrived we (to show) into some kind of hall where we (to detain) with the rest of the actors. Apparently we (not to allow) yet to mingle with the other crowd. As the guests assembled in the room, it was plain to me that they (to choose) carefully. Looking around, I recognised Anthony Blanche. He (to point) out to me often in the streets. I (to interrupt) in my observation by a woman reporter whom the manager had led up to me. I (to warn) against the dangers of being interviewed by strangers. As we (to introduce) I made up my mind to avoid it at any cost.
It was Saturday night and Pete sat watching TV. People (to kill) for an hour on the screen. Policemen (to shoot) in the line of duty, gangsters (to throw) off roofs, and an elderly lady slowly (to poison) for her pearls, and her murderer (to bring) to justice by a cigarette company after long discussions which (to hold) in the office of a private detective. Villains holding guns (to leap) at by brave, unarmed actors, and (to save) from deaths by the quickthinking young men.
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The Connolly children (to find) lurking under the seats of a carriage when the train (to empty). They (to drag) out and (to stand) on the platform. Since they could not (to leave) there, they (to include) in the party that (to send) by bus to the village. From that moment their destiny for ever (to involve) with that of the village. Nothing ever (to discover) about the children’s parents.
Bridgehampton. Friday. A disastrous fire broke out on the top floor of the Grand Hotel, Washington Road, in the small hours of the morning. The alarm (to give) by the night porter. His attention (to draw) to smoke issuing from one of the top floor windows by a group of young people who were returning late from a dance.
Exercise 12. Use the required active or passive tense forms.
I once (to know) a village teacher who (to be) partially blind. He (to deprive) of one eye as the result of infection. He (to know) that if they (to leave) alone for any length of time they (to become) violent and complaints (to make) by their parents.
Suddenly he (to strike) by an idea. In a moment his glass eye (to take) out of its socket, and (to place) on the table.
“Now, children”, he said, “I (to go) out for a few minutes but you (to observe) all the time by my eye. If anything (to do) which (not to approve) by me it (to see) by my eye, and the child (to punish) when I (to return).
The children (to impress) very much, and the teacher (to go) off.
But when he (to return) an hour later it (to seem) that a hurricane (to pass) through the classroom. The teacher (to astound). “Evidently”, he thought, “I (to outwit). I wonder how”. In the classroom the tables (to overturn), the walls (to spatter) with ink from ink-bombs which (to throw) during the battle which still (to fight) out as a manifestation of high spirits. In fact, a good time (to have) by all.
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The teacher (to wonder) why the presence of his glass eye (not to respect). He (to look) round for it and (to see) that it (to cover) by a hat.
At the last glow of sunset, they (to board) the aeroplane in inverse order of seniority beginning with the sergeant and ending with General Spitz. The plane they (to provide) with was luxurious for the wartime. It (to fit) with seats. Little lights (to glow) along the roof. Soon the doors (to shut). The lights (to go) out. It (to be) now completely dark. What once (to be) windows (to paint) out. The roar of the engine (to impose) silence on the party. Dan, who (to put) himself next to the cockpit, (to long) for a forbidden cigarette and to try same shirt all day without a chance of changing. It (not to occur) to him to bring his greatcoat. It (to be) an unsatisfactory day. He (to wander) about the streetsoftheoldtownwiththeLieutenant.They(tolunch)atthe club and (to order) to report at the airfield two hours before they (to need). He (not to dine) and (to see) no hope of doing so.
Exercise 13. Retell the stories in English.
Молодой писатель ходил взад и вперед по комнате. Он пытался найти тему для рассказа. Рассказ был давно обещан редактору. Срок подходил, а ничего еще не было сделано. Молодой писатель посмотрел на книжные полки. “Сколько уже написано, — подумал он. —) to compose himself for sleep, though it (to be) far from his normal bedtime. He (to wear) the
Все хорошие темы уже много раз использованы. Вот хотя бы эти рассказы. Они были написаны до моего рождения. И это хорошие рассказы. Без сомнения, их в свое время читали, они нравились, и о них говорили. Но сейчас они совершенно забыты. А что, если ... «.
К концу дня один из забытых рассказов был перепечатан и отослан в редакцию. На следующий день пришло письмо из редакции журнала.
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«Это безобразие, — писал редактор. — Такие поступки нельзя ни простить, ни понять. Ведь этот рассказ был опубликован в нашем журнале только месяц тому назад».
ЧАСТНАЯ ЖИЗНЬ ХЭМФРИ БОГАРТА Наш старый бухгалтер ушел на пенсию, и на его ме-
сто взяли нового. Через неделю его уже знали все, и всем он нравился. Выяснилось, что он женат, и у него есть ребенок. Было решено, что он хороший. Через несколько дней его видели с этой же девушкой в самом темном углу парка. Они целовались. Через неделю их встретили на пляже.
Что-то надо сделать, — было общее решение. — Ему надо сказать, его надо остановить, ему надо объяснить.
Наконец ему велели сейчас же идти в кабинет директора. Там его встретила целая комиссия. ‘Хэмфри Богарт, — сказал директор. — Вас много раз видели с молодой женщиной... Потом Богарту велели на следующий же день привести эту молодую женщину к директору для серьезного разговора.
Но, — сказал он. — Завтра нельзя. Она поведет ребенка к врачу.
Так там уже есть ребенок! — воскликнул профорг. Конечно, — ответил он. — Я думал, что все уже знают. Значит, это была ваша жена! — сказали мы. — Почему
же Вы этого сразу не сказали?
Меня не спрашивали, — ответил он.
Exercise 14. Use the required Passive forms.
1. The day before yesterday we (invited) to the restaurant by Tom Jenkins.
A are invited В were invited С invite
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