Упражнение 11

1. As soon as things became a little more difficult for the shadow eco­nomics and politics, there appeared a\\ sorts of social provocations.

2. Small wonder so many people write in their letters about "loss of faith" and "loss of ideals".

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3. During recent anniversary celebrations we missed our chance to reach a compromise. Not that we lack good examples in our own history: victorious Peter the Great set up a monument to Swedes fallen in the Battle of Poltava.

4. The situation will change in the direction of common sense. We shall acquire the habits of greater tolerance and the readiness to carry out a re­spectful debate.

5. If we imagine an ideal society, the best" way to run it is to use different systems and methods of governing in different sectors. It would need both democracy and administrative control.

6. Complex systems cannot be controlled with rigid formulas and rules. Every system needs a self-regulating mechanism.

7. The change is resisted by our psyche, whose possibilities, problems and difficulties are still a mystery to us.

8. All these facts prompt a simple answer: this country needs someone to rule it with a rule of iron.

9. Such sentiments have their logic, because there are people who delib­erately organize sabotage and there are people who are responsible for mis­management.

10. He had greater success with a second review-article called "On the so called question of markets".

11. To be sure there remains the path of repentance, but that road has been taken by only a handful of Official Writers, and hardly the most repre­sentative.

12. Today we are witnessing the emergence of another, "alternative", lit­erature.

13. The consequences here will be even more serious if we allow our prejudices, sluggishness and fear of change to win the day.

14. There appeared one after another volumes of memoirs of former ministers, generals and ambassadors.

15. A column of thick smoke rose over the palace in the Quay d'Orsey: clerks were busy burning diplomatic archives.

16. Л would be a help if we had a system of advance booking.

17. A poet in such conditions is less than a poet, because he eventually degenerates.

18. The hardest hit are the first-time job seekers.

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

20. Otherwise the video hire business will not be able to realize its full potential.

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Упражнение 12

1. Excitement made the sergeant's voice almost unrecognizable.

2. His belligerent manners caused him to lose one friend after another.

3. Glasnost enabled writers to find freedom of expression in their pub­lished books.

4. Abstract Impressionism had already placed American artists at the forefront of international art.

5. The government report on the essence and basic premises of the eco­nomic improvement stressed the vital necessity of social consolidation for the effort of hand.

6. Lack of a spacious studio caused Lisitsky to engage primarily in graphic arts.

7. Yet economic independence for individual republics is viewed by Shatalin as a very dim prospect. He believes it is pie in the sky.

8. The sharp turn that now took place in Ulyanov's mind was not about the methods of struggle — terror or a mass movement. He still had no views on this issue.

9. Another priority job is to create a normal environment for small busi­nesses, says Shatalin, and he states his belief that they are one of the main driving forces in the economy.

10. No doubt the foreign reader finds it amusing and exotic.

11. Sweden and Japan, the leaders in robotization, long had lower unem­ployment levels than other Western countries.

12. Sunrise found me alighting from the train at a small station called Yasenki, about four miles from Tolstoy's home.

13. A profound analysis past and present brings us to the conclusion that it is precisely these steps we must take in our joint quest for the supremacy of the idea central to all mankind over the multitude of centrifugal ideas.