A Cheap Secret

Young John: – I saw you kiss my sister, Mr.Brown. Would you like me to keep silent on the subject?

Mr. Brown: – Certainly, my boy. Here is a sixpence. And I expect you to keep it a secret.

John: – A sixpence? Do you really mean I have to keep it a secret for sixpence? I got two shillings for not telling I saw Mr.Johnes kiss her.

III . Выберите одно правильное предложение из данных ниже, для того чтобы перевести прямую речь в косвенную.

1. Jane said: "I am so sorry that I am leaving".

a) Jane said she was so sorry that she was leaving.

b) Jane said she was so sorry that she is leaving.

c) Jane said she is very sorry that I was leaving.

2. Richard asked his girlfriend: "How are you?"

a) Richard asked his girlfriend how she was.

b) Richard asked his girlfriend how she is.

c) Richard asked his girlfriend how are you.

3. Holmes said to me: " When I whistle, rush in here as fast as possible."

a) Holmes asked me to rush in there as fast as possible when he whistled.

b) Holmes asked me to rush in here as fast as possible when whistled.

c) Holmes said to me to rush in there as fast as possible when he whistled.

IV . Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Later she heard luggage being carried up the stairs.

2. The traveller came up the hill and saw the car waiting.

3. We heard him walk up to the door.

V . Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимания на независимый причастный оборот.

1. The concert being over, the lottery came next.

2. The treaty having been signed, trade was at once resumed.

3. Radio was invented in Russia, its inventor being the Russian scientist A.S.Popov.

VI . Подчеркните герундий. Определите его функцию в предложении. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. She doesn’t like being taken notice of.

2. After having been taught English for three years, he was now to take up French and Spanish.

3. Despite living in the same street, we hardly ever see each other.

4. He had the advantage of always having confidence in himself.

5. Denying the fact would worsen the situation.

VII . Переведите предложения на английский язык. Определите тип условных предложений.

1. Если вы возьмете такси, то успеете его встретить.

2. На вашем месте я бы не спорил.

3. Дэвид никогда бы не поступил в университет, если бы не занимался английским языком в школе.

VIII . Прочитайте и переведите текст. Переведите 4-ый абзац письменно.

Lise Meitner (1878-1968)

1. In 1938, an Austrian physicist named Lise Meitner announced the splitting of the atom in the laboratory. That announcement confirmed once again the beginning of the Atomic Age. At that time Lise Meitner was one of the few people in the world who had a through understanding of atomic energy and the uses which could be made of this great power.

2. Lise Meitner, the daughter of a lawyer, was born in Vienna on the 17-th of November 1878. She grew interested in science when she read of the Curie’s discovery of radium. The example of Marie Curie showed that a woman was able to achieve something in science. Lise Meitner became the first woman in the history of the University of Vienna who earned her doctorate in physics.

3. In 1906 she went to the University of Berlin to continue her studies by attending the theoretical lectures of Max Planck and by doing experimental work. There she began her research in the new field of radioactivity. She focused her attention on the behaviour of beta radiation from radioactive elements, experimenting with the primitive methods then available for measuring and analyzing radioactivity. Meitner’s work in the 1920s and early 1930s emphasized the physical aspects of radioactivity.

4. In 1938 she left Germany for Sweden. Lise Meitner declined to work on the development of the atom bomb remaining in Sweden throughout the war. She was concerned with the properties of new radioactive isotopes, produced by the cyclotron. Her career was illustrious and productive (she published more than 135 scientific papers), but throughout her life she remained a shy person, with a deep interest in music. Her devotion to science had been total. She never married. In 1960 she moved to Cambridge, England, where she died in 1968.

IX . Ответьте на вопросы по тексту.

1. When and where was Lise Meitner born?

2. Did Lise Meitner become the first woman in the history of the University of Vienna who earned her doctorate in physics?

3. When did she begin her research in the new field of radioactivity?

4. When did she leave Germany for Sweden? What was she concerned with?

5. When and where did she die?

Variant 3

I . Закончите предложения, употребив " to + Infinitive ".

1. " Don’t touch my camera". He told me…

2. "I think you should take another English course." My teacher advised me…

3. "You may use the phone". Mr. Jacobson permitted me…

4. "Make an appointment with the dentist". My mother reminded me…

5. "I think you should take a long vacation". My friend encouraged me…