Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.
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«People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk»
«I know they do. At school'in France the boys told, me you can't live with foutry-four degrees. I've got a hundred arid two.»
He was Waiting to die all day, from nine o'clock in the morning.
«You poor Schatz.» I said. «Poor little Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. Thafs a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety eight.» «Are you sure?»
«Absolutely,* I said. «It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?» «Oh,» he said.
But his staring look at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. His concentration relaxed too, finally, and the next day he got very weak and cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.
Notes
1. Schatz (нем) rjXtz] - сокровище (употр. как ласковое обращение)
2. to be sick / to look sick - быть больным I болезненно выглядеть
3. to take the temperature - измерять температуру
4. one hundred and two degrees - 102 градуса (по шкале Фаренгейта). При переводе из шкалы
Фаренгейта в шкалу Цельсия вычитают 32 и полученную сумму умножают на 5/9.
5. to give / take a medicine - давать / принимать пекарство
6. influenza [,mflu'enza], a flue [flu:] - грипп
7. a pneumonia [nju(:) 'maunja] - воспаление легких
8. to read aloud - читать вслух
9. in the same way - таким же образом
10. to prescribe a medicine - прописывать лекарство
11. to snow - идти (о снеге)
12. a covey of quail (PI) - стая перепелов
13. to keep from (doing smth) - удерживать(ся) I воздерживать(ся)
14. to take smth easy - не волноваться
15. to concentrate on smth - сосредотачиваться, концентрироваться (на чем-л.)
16. to do good I to do harm - быть полезным I причинять вред
17. a mile, a kilometer - миля, километр; 1 миля = 1,609 км
18. things of no importance - вещи, не имеющие значения
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EXERCISES
18.1 Образуйте герундий от глаголов, данных в скобках и переведите предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на перевод герундия в функции подлежащего.
1...............is the next thing we have to do now (to pack). 2...............is not allowed here (to smoke).
3............... makes my brother happy (to drive). 4............... will last very long in this case (to recover)
5............... is my mother's hobby (to cook). 6............... helps to learn a lot of things (to read). 7...............
for a long time seems to me rather unpleasant (to wait). 8............... is not always correct (to joke). 9 ..............
is the way to kill time (to talk). 10................ brings nothing (to lie). 11...............in a fresh air is important for
children (to walk).
18.2* Образуйте герундий от данных глаголов, заполните пропуски по смыслу и переведите предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод герундия в функции прямого дополнения.
to paint, to publish, to discuss, to stay, to leave, to go, to open, to close, to spend, to have, to play, to watch, to sign, to translate, to drive, to decorate, to celebrate, to speak, to travel
1.1 enjoy ...........Christmas and New Year together with my friends. 2. My brother enjoys...............his new car.
3. Some of my colleagues enjoy.............time in night clubs. 4. Have you finished ............your room? 5. When
are you going to finish..............this matter? 6. Who was the first to finish..............the article? 7, Do you
practise.............the piano every day? 8. My brother is going to practise..............in oil colours. 9. You may
practise...............foreign languages abroad. 10. Don't you mind ..............the window? 11. Don't you mind
..............lunch now? 12.1 don't mind..............TV in the evening. 13. My grandmother doesn't mind..............
in the country all the summer. 14. Do you suggest..............to the country at the week-end? 15.1 suggest
..............abroad next month. 16. My father suggests..............for Australia. 17. Are you going to postpone
..............the agreement? 18. Is it possible to postpone.............the exhibition? 19. My uncle is not going to
postpone..............his new book.
18.3 Дополните следующие предложения с герундием в функции прямого дополнения притяжательными местоимениями или существительными в притяжательном падеже. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
e.g. I enjoy.....playing golf (I, my sister)
I enjoy my playing golf; I enjoy my sister's playing golf.
1.1 don't mind.....smoking here (you, your friend). 2.1 suggest.... going abroad (we, my brother). 3. Does your
teacher excuse.....being late for lessons? (you, your sister) 4. Can you forgive.....lying to you? (I, your friend)
5. Do you enjoy.....having a lot of friends? (you, your sister) 6. Is your colleague going to postpone.....
entering the university? (he, his wife) 7. Do you suggest.... staying at home next Sunday? (we, these Children)
8. I don't mind .....joining me (you, your sister). 9. My sister didn't forgive.....spending all the money on
