Вариант № 5

I. Перепишите предложения, определите в каждом из них видовременную форму и залог глагола, переведите предложения.

1. This engineer was asked about the new technology used at the plant.

2. The contribution of our scientists to space research has been greatly appreciated.

3. New houses are being built in our street.

II. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива и причастия.

1. The route of the new canal will reach the lands to be irrigated.

2. Growing plants need water.

3. Moving water from clouds to land is a never-ending cycle.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, принимая во внимание, что объективный и субъективный инфинитивные обороты большей частью соответствуют придаточным предложениям.

1. The river is known to have been fed by melting snows.

2. All desert streams are thought to have cycles of flood and drought.

3. We expect this method to increase crop yields.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения, учитывая различия в переводе зависимого и независимого причастных оборотов.

1. There being no reliable date on the flow of the river, the additional investigation was needed.

2. Men have done their utmost to eliminate disproportion of natural factors, the primary aim being to improve the water supply.

3. The power-station being built on the river will supply electricity to all the villages.

V. Перепишите и устно переведите на русский язык весь текст. Письменно переведите 1, 3, 5 абзацы.

The Circulation of Water

1. The globe is surrounded by an ocean of air called the atmosphere. One of the most important functions of the atmosphere is carrying from sea to earth vapour of water. This vapour is known to make the clouds supplying the earth with its moisture and feeding its springs, its lakes and rivers.

2. Water sprinkled on the pavement on a hot summer day soon disappears, being changed into invisible vapour. The hotter the air, the more vapour it can take up and hold.

3. The same process is constantly going on in nature on a large scale. It takes place most extensively on the surface of the ocean in tropical regions where the sun’s heat is greatest. Being lighter than air, vapour rises up and forms clouds. It has been estimated that the ocean gives back its moisture to the atmosphere at the rate of billion tons of water per day.

4. This change of water into vapour is called evaporation. The process by which vapour is again changed into water is called condensation. Evaporation takes place due to heat while condensation is caused by cold.

5. Having been cooled, the fine particles run together and form drops which fall to the earth by their own weight. This is rain. When falling rain drops are frozen in the air and they form hail. When the fine particles are frozen not taking the form of drops they fall to the earth as snow.

6. Such are various forms in which the earth gets its moisture from the air. This moisture saturates the soil forming springs and marshes. Marshes and springs feed rivers. Rivers carry the moisture to the sea from where it came and thus the system of water circulation is completed.

VI. Прочтите 4 абзац и ответьте письменно на следующий вопрос: What process is called evaporation?