Вариант 3.

I. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе (б) обратите внимание на перевод пассивных конструкций.

а) 1. It is the car that will be the transport of the future.

2. Scientists have found ways of measuring the sizes and masses of bodies.

6) 1. Elements are transformed into other elements both by man and by nature.

2. The report will be improved by him by changing the end.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоя­тельством или частью глагола-сказуемого. Переведите пре ­дложения на русский язык .

1. He heard the voices coming through the open window.

2. A balsa tree found in South America is lighter than any other.

3. Soils containing too much sand or clay are of less value in agriculture.

4. When studying elements Mendeleyev found that they were divided into nine groups.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркни­те в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивален­ты. Переведите предложения на русский язык .

1. She can tell you everything about cattle.

2. The application of digital (цифровой) computers should include all forms of automatic control in science and industry.

3. He had much work to do yesterday.

4. The team of experts is to study the present situation in agriculture.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

OATS

Soil. The cultivation of oats may take place on a wide range of soil types with a reasonable degree of success. Oats can be found on all the light to medium soils in the higher rainfall areas and will give high yielding crops of good quali­ty. They can also produce good crops on some of the heavier soils, clay and silts, in the drier areas of Britain where there are significant moisture reserves in the soil which can be drawn upon during a particularly dry time.

Climate. The oat crop is particularly suited to the cooler, more humid climate of the western and northern regions of Britain where growth is relatively slow and as a result the grains have plenty of time to fill out to produce good plump samples.

Seed-bed Preparation. Oats are said to be the best cereal to follow the ploughing up of grassland but this is only true if the grass is turned in timely and well, the furrow slice being properly inverted and no large air pockets left which tend to accentuate drying out.

Ploughing depths should be 6 inches except where grass or surface trash need to be buried deeper and then 8-9 inches plough depths may be required. Where early ploughing has been carried out it is often only necessary to give the land a light-medium harrowing to obtain the desired tilth in the top 3 inches of the soil.

Harvest. It has been pointed out that for straw to have additional feeding value the crop should be cut early and this will mean hindering one or two weeks before full ripeness. Very tall crops may be cut earlier than usual to make the harvesting easier and to avoid risks of late lodging and this will also apply to crops which have been undersown. Quick maturing varieties will often be cut before the rest to avoid grain losses and lodging. Some people suppose the best time to cut a good standing crop of oats is a few days before it is fully ripe. Since oats are much more prone to losing their grain by shattering than the other cereals then hindering must always be before full maturity.