Упражнение 30

1. The old tram pulled away from the stop on Admiralty Avenue.

2. The tram started running as far as Strelna.

3. It was he who five years ago brought the old Bresh tram out of its place of retirement in the tram park and drove it along a tourist route.

4. The dense foliage of the bushes growing in the deep crevices at the cliffs showered a silvery rain upon us at the slightest breath of the wind.

5. The battle of Moscow greatly influenced the course of war, exploding the myth of Nazi invincibility and paving the way to final victory.

6. It was the night of December 5 that the Soviet troops launched a ma­jor counter-offensive.

7. They commissioned the biggest power station in the world.

8. Each year 110,000 to 115,000 new Moscow families move into newly-built apartments.

9. However to talk about Soviet literature as a single entity somehow uniting all these various literatures is to indulge in an illusion.

10. In the last years of its life, having recovered from the Stalinist shock, Soviet literature existed in three main currents. Those three trends were "Official", "Village" and "Liberal Prose".

11. Official Literature operated according to the principles of "party spirit" established in the 1930s and 1940s.

12. Official Literature is becoming an intransigent opponent of change.

13. However Official Literature was too weak to cope with genuine conflicts.

14. Village Writers bristle with л pathological hatred of rock'n roll.

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1. Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.

2. Give me a little -water, if you please, and let us be friends.

3. Would you like to take anything*?

4. Finally the mazurka started.

5. We are now at crossroads.

6. Some sectors have achieved certain improvements, but the situation on the whole is very complicated.

7. But life goes on. There is no stopping it.

8. I wouldn't show myself to the princess for anything until my new uniform is ready.

9. CDU MP Leisler Kiep says that "hard times" are in store for the op­position when it will have to take a clear-cut stand in the parliamentary de­bate on treaties with Russia.

10. Obstacles in the way of democracy are disappearing slowly. The greatest hindrances are in the depth of culture and conscience.

11. The secretary's answer to the great proletarian writer and in such a context was delayed. It could only mean one thing: that he should not write a biography. Gorky promptly dropped the idea. ,

12. On the eve of the 80^th anniversary of the Petersburg Tramway I went to see the man responsible for this "time machine".

Упражнение 32

1. At ten o'clock in the evening the police come through the city center putting out the lamps.

2. I suppose you are going to Stavropol? Yes, Sir, I am ... with some government baggage.

3. Now this is all crumbling to ruins.

4. All taxes should go to local budgets from which a certain proportion should be forwarded to central funds.

5. The first line to be opened was not very long, just a little over a mile and a half.

6. Statues of this man in granite and bronze towered over the immense country.

7. It is obvious that attempts to streamline creative quest by fiat are de­structive socially and morally.

8. It is convenient for a money-loosing factory to blame suppliers for its ownfault.

9. How could those helmets come into the life of the Republic of Viet­nam? It must have been the French who did it.

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10. Any peasant knows that in a vast country like ours with our bad roads grain and potatoes should be stored by the producer.