3.7. Обзорные упражнения на местоимения.

Упр.3.7.1. Все следующие предложения содержат местоимения. Если предложение неправильно, найдите и исправьте ошибку.

1. The local soccer team has a season record that will put them in the final competition.

2. Mary reads just as well as him.

3. Do you actually believe it is they who sent the letter?

4. The children were extremely boisterous, which annoyed their teacher.

5. When a person decides to move from the city to a farm, they should be prepared to make some mistakes.

6. You will never be able to convince him or her.

7. Him that speaks before he thinks will get himself in trouble.

8. The last owner of this house obviously didn’t enjoy working outdoors because they neglected the lawn.

9. The coach appreciated them giving him a new jacket.

10. The crowd was so large that it took us a long time to get through them.

11. One or the other of these people must give up their turn to speak.

12. The engineers studied the data carefully, but it didn’t seem correct.

13. I forgot my books, which will force me to return home to get them.

14. There is some disagreement among they who were at the meeting.

15. The teacher made all these improvements themselves.

16. She is very sad which makes me sad, too.

17. You cannot please both George and me.

18. Did you know it was him who started the fire in the wastebasket.

**Упр.3.7.2. Укажите буквой слово, подходящее по смыслу.

I. Chinese people have made the most successful study of earthquakes because China has had the world’s worst earthquakes. Two times in (1) _____ history, in 1556 and in 1976, more than half a million people lost (2) _____ lives in earthquakes. In the winter of 1974-1975 there were readable signs twice. Almost (3) _____ the people left the cities, but the earthquake did not happen. Two months later the experts again warned the people. (4) _____ were unwilling to leave (5) _____ homes. (6) ______ thought (7) ______ was (8) ________ false alarm. However the police evacuated the dangerous areas. This time a severe earthquake did happen. Thousands of lives were saved.

a) it; b) their; c) its; d) all; e) some; f) another.

To know (9) _____ is going on in the world is (10) _____ person’s right today, but it was once the luxury of (11) _____ leaders. Even so, the knowledge of events was slow in getting to the privileged class. Today, a world wide system of communication makes news available quickly to nearly (12) ____ (13) _____ can read, to (14) _____ person (15) ______ has a radio, to (16) _____ (17) _____ can watch TV.

g) who; h) every; i) everybody; j) what; k) which; l) a few; m) little.

II. (1)____ years ago mathematicians (2) ____ over the world observed the 100^th anniversary of the first proof of the prime number theorem. (3) ____ famous theorem tells (4)____ what proportion of the positive integers are prime numbers. The emergence of number theory as a by-product of numerology is analogous to that of (5)____ great science, astronomy, (6)____ owes (7)____ origins to a pseudoscience, astrology. Numbers that aren’t prime are composite, except that the number 1 is (8)____ prime ____ composite. This theorem has grown into a vast and beautiful branch of mathematics that for centuries has attracted the attention of (9)____ amateur ____ professional mathematicians.

a) this; b) another; c) neither … nor; d) which; e) some; f) both … and; g) all; h) its; i) us.