Упражнение 3

1. The summit in Washington certainly threw light on changes in public opinion.

2. We have accepted the challenge within ,the limit of our jurisdic­tion.

3. Are they capable of tuning in to these moods and translating them into practical measures.

4. We have not yet been able to improve or stabilize the national eco­nomic situation and many negative processes are gaining momentum.

5. Plekhanov had seen through Lenin.

6. Currents of flaring rhetoric drowned what each of us should do right away to ensure for ourselves a better future.

7. The economy and politics go hand-in-hand.

8. For decades political life way forced into an outrageously perverted harness.

9. Perestroika stripped Official Literature of its ideological role and its inviolability.

10. Nonetheless, Official Prose tried to draw village writers into its ideo­logical ranks and coerce them into joining in the fight with the West by showering them with state prizes and medals.

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

155 Упражнение 4

.1. Passengers used to hang off them in clusters right up until the 1960s, when the last trams of this design finally disappeared from the streets of Pe­tersburg.

2. The passengers got into the car, settled themselves in their seats and travelled to ... the past.

3. Nowadays it is recognized at the highest level that the two countries have turned their backs on confrontation and are prepared to leave it behind them.

4. When she had grabbed the manuscript, her only intent was to read the book.

5. We set out to curb the powers of the economic bureaucracy, but look what has happened.

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

7. Video cassettes of seminars could be sent out to local institutes of higher education.

8. The mass reader, starving for information, devoured these works with genuine enthusiasm.

9. Their decline has resulted in tangible changes in the literary-social hi­erarchy of values.

10. Village prose arose in the post-Stalinist years.

11. It is convenient for an incompetent or lazy manager to claim the ex­istence of all sorts of "conspirators" and "intriguers".

12. Only the experts could tell the difference between this and the real Bresh trams brought from England in 1907.

13. But this does not mean that in a year or two we won't be able to sig­nificantly speed up economic development, remove social tensions and con­vince the people that we are heading in the right direction.

Упражнение 5

1. In recent years, every day saw nearly a planeful of our tourists flock­ing to^-India.

2. The early post-war years witnessed a certain reappraisal of values.

3. Mid-1934 signaled the beginning of its decline.

4. We have witnessed many breakthroughs in natural sciences.

5. Recent years saw a rapid development of small businesses in cities and workers' settlements.

6. This period saw Lisitsky's early experiments in which he turned to folk art for inspiration.

156

1

7. The past decade has brought about a number of investigations into the physical and chemical characteristics of these substances.

8. The Festival ends with a gala ballet performance at Petrodvorets, the famous palace of fountains outside Petersburg.

У п p а ж н е н и е 6

1. American Childhood is an anthology that draws upon the excerpted diaries and memoirs of both famous and unknown Americans.

2. The earlier processes needed a catalyst to achieve this end.

3. This chapter describes the use of organo-metallic compounds, while this table lists their properties.

4. The Bolshoi yesterday scored a great success with its first perform­ance of a new ballet "The Stone Flower".

5. Oil has always been the subject of heated debate in Norway. There were forces in the country which resisted plans for farming out prospecting drilling to foreign capital.

6. Village Prose, much like ancient folklore, demarcates "us" and "them".

7. In foreign markets there is a great demand for jams, honey, canned vegetables and fruits, mushrooms and medicinal herbs, to mention but a few,

8. Our solar system does not seem to have such clots of antimatter.

9. This offers hope that Russia, a country traditionally rich in talent, will bring forth a new literature, one that will be no more and no less than literature.

10. Vietnam is not a large country. But within its boundaries there are high mountains, dense jungles and fertile plains.

11. The area of this biggest depression in the world accounts for three-quarters of the oil and gas extracted in the country.

12. Europe is growing increasingly concerned about the escalation of ten­sions in the Middle East.

13. Small wonder that the Kazakhstan Bogatur open-cast mine alone pro­duces annually more than 50 mln. tons of coal.

14. The maximum elevation of land in Nicaragua is 31 meters. This offers the most advantageous geographical conditions for a canal.

15. The Solovki archipelago has over a hundred and seventy architectural, historical and archeological landmarks, and most of these are wretchedly di­lapidated.

16. The Senate focused on the question of whether "Safeguard" should be expanded.

17. From Petersburg to Strelna along the famous iron road of Oranela we rumbled on the first of the new excursions. '

157