2. Найдите в тексте ответы на следующие вопросы и запишите их:

a) What is the ‘one-stop’ website intended for?

b) Why is it usually better to use online travel services?

c) How can you increase your chances to get the desired job?

Вариант 7

I. Из английских грамматических форм в правой колонке выберите ту видо-временную форму глагола, которую вы употребили бы при переводе следующих русских предложений:

II. Переведите на английский язык предложения:

III. Поставьте глаголы, стоящие в скобках, в зависимости от смысла во времена группы Indefinite (Simple), Continuous или Perfect. Предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. My brother (to be) in hospital. He (to be) there for ten days. 2. I can’t give you a definite answer as I (not to discuss) the matter the manager yet. 3. If they (to see) her next week, they (to tell) her about the meeting. 4. The director (to come) back to St. Petersburg a week ago.

IV. Поставьте глагол to make в зависимости от смысла в нужное время (групп Indefinite (Simple), Continuous, Perfect или Perfect Continious) в страдательном залоге. Предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. White wine (to make) from red grapes. 2. Unfortunately only one experiment (to make) last month. 3. Less than 150 cars (to make) by Fiat by 1923. 4. By the time you return home, hot sandwiches already (to make). 5. Many new mistakes (to make) by this untrained employee if you don't help him. 6. China usually (to make) of porcelain.

V. Замените в следующих предложениях действительный залог страдательным. Используйте конструкцию с предлогом by.

1. Two different teachers have marked the exams. 2. A police car is following that green van. 3. He will deliver the new model in ten days. 4. Your son has already broken my window three times.

VI. Трансформируйте следующие предложения в прошедшее и будущее время, используя соответствующую форму модального глагола или его эквивалента.

1. This plant can provide our institute with a new type of welding equipment. 2. You must use cold welding in explosive areas. 3. This scientist may investigate new means of production.

VII. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на выражение модальности в английском языке.

1. Students are not allowed to smoke in the classrooms. 2. If you want to know English, you have to work hard. 3. We will be able to see a number of Chaplin’s films in September. 4. He was allowed to use this modern equipment.

VIII. Прочтите текст и выполните следующие за ним упражнения:

THE PROBLEMS OF INVENTORS

Many of the modern world's most famous discoveries and inventions were not made by scientists, but by amateur inventors. Often, these inventors had such unusual ideas that they were laughed at. But people like these, working on their own, gave us many of the things we use every day. 

Clarence "Bob" Birdseye, who invented frozen foods, was both a successful inventor and a good businessman. But it took him years to overcome the biggest problem of successful inventions - convincing people to try something new and different. Birdseye first tried to freeze fish. After years of experimenting with the process, he started Birdseye. Seafoods, Inc. But the company soon went bankrupt. Even though the process worked, people didn't believe that frozen fish could possibly be good. It took a long time, but people finally accepted frozen food. By the end of his life, Birdseye, who was a completely self-taught inventor, had 100 patents that he sold for a total of 22 million dollars.

Few inventors were as successful as Birdseye. Some, like the original owners of Coca-Cola, didn't realize the potential of their discoveries. The son of the inventor of Coca-Cola sold the recipe for $2,300. Today the product is worth billions of dollars. In 1853, Karl Gerhardt invented aspirin, but he didn't know what to do with it. Fifty years after his invention, a German company discovered that it was a painkiller and has since made millions selling it. Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio, but he spent his whole life trying to protect his invention. Competitors stole his patents, and companies cheated him out of money. Finally, he became so frustrated with his failures that he ended his life by jumping out of a window.

Most great inventors, like Gerhardt and Armstrong, made little or nothing from their inventions. The first person with a new idea may get attention, but he also gets the problem of an untried idea. In business, it is sometimes better to be second.