VI. Передайте следующие предложения в Passive Voice.

E.g. Mother waters the flowers in the evening. — The flowers are watered in the evening (by Mother).

1. We shall do the translation in the evening.

2. They water the flowers regularly.

3. You promised me these books long ago.

4. Bessie's father gave her a complete set of Walter Scott's works.

5. A marble pavilion protects the house.

6. The boys will paint the roof of the house.

7. Tom Sawyer whitewashed the fence.

8. Her daughters gave her three beautiful dishes as a birthday present.

VII. Передайте следующие повелительные предложения в косвенной речи.

1. "Please don't mention it to anybody," Mary said to her friend.

2. "Promise to come and see me," said Jane to Alice.

3. He said to us: "Come here tomorrow."

4. I said to Mike: "Send me a telegram as soon as you arrive."

5. Father said to me: "Don't stay there long."

VIII. Передайте следующие повествовательные предложения в косвенной речи.

1. He said: "I haven't seen my cousin today."

2. "I don't go to this shop very often," she said.

3. Tom said: "I have already had breakfast, so I am not hungry."

4. "This man spoke to me on the road," said the woman.

5. "I can't explain this rule to you," said my classmate to me.

6. The teacher said to the class: "We shall discuss this subject tomorrow."

7. The woman said to her son: "I am glad I am here."

8. Mike said: "We have bought these books today."

IX. Восстановите прямую речь в следующих предложениях.

1. She told me she had caught cold.

2. He said that while crossing the English Channel they had stayed on deck all the time.

3. The woman said she had felt sick while crossing the Channel.

Вариант № 5

I.Прочитайте текст, переведите письменно 1,3,5,7 абзацы.

1. Water really is substance No. 1 in life. H₂O! One atom of oxygen plus two atoms of hydrogen. Probably one of the first chemical formulas you ever learn. So simple a compound and yet where there is no water, no life, intelligent or unintelligent is possible. Why? First of all because water is the most remarkable chemical compound in the world. The history of the Earth is primarily the history of water. It has continuously changed and still goes on changing the face of our planet. This is one of the conditions for the origin and development of life on our planet. Multitudes of folk tales of various peoples are based on the legend of the “water of life”. It healed wounds and revived the dead. It made the coward brave and increased the strength of the brave a hundredfold.

2. It is not by chance that man attributed such magic properties to water. Try to imagine what would become of our planet if the water suddenly disappeared from it. Neither bush nor flower, nor a living thing on the dead Earth and above it a cloudless sky of a horrifying unusual colour. The vary fact that we are alive on the Earth, that we are surrounded by green woods and flowering fields, that we can go boat-riding or run through puddles under the rain in summer and go skiing or skating in winter – is all due to water. To be more exact, all this is due to the ability of water molecules to attract each other and to form associations.

3. When Celsius invented his thermometer, he based his device on two values, or two constants: the boiling point and the freezing point of water. He took the former as equal to 100, and the second to zero. Then he divided the interval between them into 100 divisions; thus appeared the first instrument for measuring temperatures. But what would Celsius have thought if he knew that actually water should not freeze at all at zero nor boil at 100 degrees? Nowadays scientists have established that in this respect water is the most anomalous compound on the globe.

4. The properties of the elements of any one group of the Periodic System gradate quite regularly from the light elements to the heavy ones. Take, for instance, the boiling point. The properties of compounds depend on the location of the elements, comprising the molecule, in the Mendeleyev Table. This refers, in particular, to hydrogen compounds, to hydrides of elements of the same group.

5. Water may be called oxygen hydride. Oxygen is a member of the sixth group, which also includes sulphur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium. The hydrides of all these elements have the same molecular pattern as the water molecule: H₂S, H₂Se, H₂Te, and H₂Po. The boiling points of these compounds are known to gradate regularly from sulphur to its heavier brothers. And unexpectedly we find that the boiling point of water falls out of this series, being much higher than it should be. Water refuses to acknowledge the rules of behavior established for the Periodic Table, as it were, and postpones its transition to the vapour state for 180 degrees. This is only the first amazing anomaly of water.

6. Its second anomaly has to do with its freezing point. The laws of the Periodic System specify that water shall solidify at a temperature of 100 degrees below zero. Water violates this requirement harshly and turns to ice at zero. This willfulness of water suggests that its liquid and solid states are abnormal on Earth. According to the rules water should exist here only in the vapour form. Imagine a world where the properties of water obey the strict regularities of the Periodic System. For fiction writers such a unique picture would be an excellent basis for thinking up amusing novels and stories. But for us and for scientists it is further evidence that the Periodic Table is a much more complex structure than it seems at first glance.

7. The molecules of water have a specific arrangement and for this reason possess a pronounced ability to attract one another. In vain we would look for single molecules in a glass of water. The molecules form groups which scientists call associations. And it would be more correct to write the formula of water as (H₂O)ⁿ where “n” indicates the number of molecules in the association. These associative bonds between the water molecules are very difficult to break. That is why water freezes and boils at much higher temperatures than it would be expected.

II. Придумайте и напишите по-английски заголовок к тексту.

III. Переведите следующие вопросы на английский язык и ответьте на них по-английски.

1. Какова роль воды в истории развития Земли?

2. Почему Цельсий разделил шкалу своего термометра на 100 делений?

3. Как изменяются свойства элементов в Периодической системе?

4. При какой температуре должна кипеть и замерзать вода согласно Периодическому закону?

5. Почему вода не подчиняется законам Периодической системы?

IV.Выпишите из … абзаца подчёркнутое предложение и разберите его по составу.

V. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в требующимся времени активного залога.

1. When will he come? We (to wait) for him for half an hour already.

2. On leaving the hall, the students (to thank) the professor who (to deliver) the lecture.

3. We already (to cover) about ten miles when Peter, who (to look) out of the window for the last five or ten minutes, suddenly exclaimed: "Here is the station!"

4. Не (to be) here five minutes ago, but you (to be) out. He (to ask) me to tell you that he (to come) again tonight.

5. You (to read) "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie? — No, I (not yet to read) it. But I (to hear) that it (to be) a very interesting book. I (to read) it as soon as I (to get) it.

6. When we (to come) to the station, the train already (to arrive). The passengers (to hurry) to occupy their seats in the carriages.

7. The concert (to be) a greater success than we (to expect). We were very glad.

8. He (to tell) me that if no one (to come) to meet me at the station, I (can) leave the suitcases in the cloakroom and go to the hotel where he (to reserve) a room for me.