Упражнение 33

1. Many writers in Russia, especially Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol and Chekhov identified this in man and despised him accordingly.

2. A century and a half later, when the husk had been finally separated from the grain, the true giants of literature, thought, harmony and art live on in the memory of people.

3. How dangerous is this disease (need to have the enemy image) for the future of reform"?

4. When the inaugural banquet heard the last toast, control of the driver's handle was taken by engineer Heinrich Osipovich Graftio took the tram for a trip of about two miles.

5. In all these discussions on whatever side they may be conducted, I most emphatically reject attacks on the dignity of the opponent.

6. Yet he has no ready-made solutions to stop shady dealers from buying up all the shares in л free market.

7. But this is not what you have in mind. I think you mean the deplor­able situation in which people engaged in literary polemics begin to form warring factions, report on one another and abuse one another.

8. But the group infighting sometimes includes even honorable and really talented writers whose books advocate goodness and compassion.

9. Official Literature is too weak to cope with genuine conflicts. It prefers its trusty weapons of political intrigue and old-comrade network.

10. A democratic society means a new way of life, newly-emerging democratic attitudes and new people who are receptive to new ideas, inde­pendent-minded and have no complexes.

Упражнение 34

1. Perestroika is a veritable revolution.

2. Although Laval said he would continue Barthon's policy, he actually made a sharp turnabout.

3. We shall have greater tolerance and be ready to carry out a respectful debate.

4. The authoritarian way of life suppresses human individuality and in­dependence.

5. Let us remember the degree of intolerance which characterized liter­ary debate in Russia in the 19^th century.

6. Disputes about nagging social problems and artistic forms and styles are natural.

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7. It is only to be regretted that a very serious idea of Russian revival is sometimes used by the hysterical and reckless who scare away those people who in their thoughts and actions seek the flowering of Russia.

8. The custodian who looked after the statue was horrified to discover one day that migrating birds had taken to resting on its head.

9. When the inaugural banquet heard the last toast, control of the driver's handle was taken by engineer H.O. Graftio who took the tram for a trip of two miles.

Упражнение 35

1. A point worth noting is that in many cases the new technology creates a big demand for hastily trained operators. They tend modern equipment but have only a hazy idea of its design or even of its basic principles.

2. The passengers got into the carriage, settled themselves in their seats and travelled to ... the past.

3. If all the rails were laid end to end, they would reach Moscow.

4. For decades political life was forced into an outrageously perverted harness; this could not but affect the creative process.

5. Many honest and upstanding people, who were considered inconven­ient and uncontrollable, were removed from the scene.

6. Changes in society's cultural life have brought to the limelight the utter absurdity and moral inadequacy of what seemed to be a norm through­out decades.

7. By-by, Peter. Hope to see you again. Don't stay too long down there.

8. She popped the note into the fire and began to sing away more mer­rily than ever.