18. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление артикля перед прилагательным в превосходной степени.

l. Smoking is one of the worst, a most harmful, a most objectionab1e (неприятный) and a most widely-spread habits. 2. Leo To1stoy was the greatest, a most talented and a most popular writer in Russia in his time. 3. Chemistry is a most perspective, a most important and a most widely-applied branch of science 4. According to the local sources that President was the least popular, the 1east respected and therefore the least influential president. 5 What subject is the least difficult, the least interesting and the least time-consuming? 6. The Volga is the longest, a most picturesque, a most famous and a loveliest river in the European part of our country. 7. The press of that country is the least objective and therefore the least reliable one in the world. 8. This secretary is the most beautiful girl, but the laziest and that is why the least efficient and the least dependable (надежный) employee in our office. 9. Scientific literature must be the least emotional, the most informative and the least misleading source of knowledge. 10. This is by far the most important work of all done in the laboratory. 11. This is by far the most interesting book than yours. 12. This equipment is by far the most efficient one. 13. These calculations are by far the easiest ones.

Запомните перевод наречий greatly - очень highly - очень, чрезвычайно nearly - почти largely - широко, в значительной степени scarcely - едва lately - за последнее время readily – охотно presently -вскоре, теперь shortly - вскоре hardly - едва hard -усердно long - долго,давно Степени сравнения наречий образуются по тем же правилам, что и степени сравнения прилагательных hard – harder – (the) hardest slowly – more slowly – (the) most slowly well – better - (the) best badly - worse - (the) worst

19. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на прилагательные и наречия.

1. A proton is about two thousand times as heavy as an electron. 2. The new radio-set is half the size of the old one. 3. The weight of this heavenly (небесный) body is half as much as that of another meteor. 4. The year on Mars is twice as long as that on the Earth. 5. This book is twice as thick as here. 6. The instruments at our laboratory are five times as efficient as those at yours. 7. Their office is almost four times as far away from here as our. 8. Try to finish this work as soon as possible. 9. Make this box as large as possible and as strong as possible as well.

20. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на наречия, стоящими перед прилагательным в сравнительной степени.

1. Try to get there by plane; it is a great deal quicker than by train. 2. He began to work a little earlier than I. 3. The coal seams (пласты) of Siberia are much thicker than those of the Donbas basin. 4. The storms in the Polar region are much stronger than in the central part of the country. 5. The distance from the Sun to the Earth is much larger than that from the Moon. 6. The nights in summer are much shorter than those in winter. 7. This article is a great deal more difficult than the one we translated yesterday. 8. Our old laboratory was but a little worse than the new one. 9. The new method is much more efficient than the old one. 10. The number of discoveries in the 19th century was much bigger than in the 18th century, but the number of discoveries in our century is still bigger. 11. There are far lower temperatures on other planets than on the Earth.