Упражнение 40

1. Radical reductions in strategic offensive arms have led to new break­throughs in talks on chemical weapons.

2. They all need an "enemy", and when the situation becomes danger­ous, their anxiety to find such an enemy increases.

3. In a closed society the elite echelon of Official Writers often specu­lated on forbidden topics.

Упражнение 41

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1. The stratification and decay of Official Literature actually has little relevance to the future of literature.

2. A man, who steered clear of the limelight, Stanislav Shatalin, a well-known Russian economist, applied a business-like approach to analysis of the most complex of situations.

3. It is convenient for an incompetent or lazy manager to claim the ex­istence if all sorts of "conspirators".

4. Socialist Realism preferred future to the present.

Упражнение 42

1. We squander most of our hard-earned petrodollars or spend them on equipment that takes years to come into use. This is what we should be wor­ried about, not the fact that we export oil.

2. It turned out the young audience didn 't need these poets, they simply hounded them off the stage with an ironic flood of applause.

Упражнение 43

1. Russia, for instance, was always either besieged by enemies, who tried to tear her apart, or herself conquered new territories, seeking access to seas and oceans from Moscow to the Baltic and Black seas, the Pacific and

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the Arctic. It often nearly disintegrated as a result of internecine strife or so­cial upheavals, but later pulled herself together.

2. Yury Bondarev likens the new forces in our literature to the Nazi troops who overran the Soviet Union in 1941.

Упражнение 44

1. This policy is fraught with continued dangerous destabilization of the international situation. One can hardly guarantee it will not have some ir­reparable consequences.

2. In order to begin the process of disarmament it is necessary to stop the arms race. Imagine a train rolling down the tracks at full speed. You cannot make it go in the opposite direction without bringing it to a stop first.

3. People are so different. While sitting in a cinema, we are often sur­prised at the unexpected reaction of the people around us.

4. Russia has had so many enemies to fight against.

5. A great many people perished in that grisly hunt for dissidents and many more became spiritually impoverished as a result of the constant ha­tred, spying on one another and struggle for power:

6. But no constructive dialogue is possible without real freedom and in the absence of glasnost, when the information the public gets is strictly measured. There can be no constructive dialogue without democratic -rules and democratic outlook.

Упражнение 45

1. There has been a mounting concern throughout the world over the future of mankind. Could you comment in this context on the following problem? The world seems to have come closer to the brink of a world—wide ecological crisis. What do you think of it?

2. How do you view the economic reform in the country? We can hardly continue to live in and develop the country the way we 've got used to. What do you think of it?

3. We often hear at home and from our Western partners that these views are overly idealistic, overestimating the maturity and potential of world public thinking.