Контрольная работа. Вариант 5

1) Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление времен группы Indefinite (Present, Past, Future) в действительном залоге (Active) и страдательном [Passive] залогах. Выпишите сказуемые и укажите их видовременные формы.
1) The IMF officials suspect that much of the 4.8 billion loans, which the IMF sent to Russia in the summer of 1998, were transferred by oligarchs to Switzerland banks and other Western countries.
2) Pirate copies of video cassettes will continue to appear at the 'black' market until stricter laws are adopted by the government.
3) Norway is a country with a free market economy; nevertheless, the government controls prices, wages and profits of firms.
4) In J990, the United States Congress passed a new lax law that, among other things, imposed a heavy tax on yachts. The effect of this law, within a year, was the loss of about 19,000 jobs in the boatbuilding business.
5) Portraits of famous people such as Isaac Newton, the Duke of Wellington, Florence, Nightingale, etc. are featured on the backs of English banknotes.
2) Перепишите следующие предложения, поставив глагол в указанную видовременную форму, и переведите их.
1) You will get this software free if you buy one of our computers.
2) In ancient times, salt was so valuable product that it was used as money.
In fact, our modern word 'salary' comes from the word 'salt'.
The Latin word 'salarium' means 'salt money'.
It referred to the allowance of salt that was paid to Roman soldiers.
3) The foreign exchange market is a market where
foreign currencies are sold and bought through either private exchange dealers or a country's central bank.

3) Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на употребление оборота to be.
1) There is a saying that a banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it starts raining.
2) In post-war Hungary, there was so high rate of inflation that the newspapers published cost of living index daily, and people were paid wages at the end of each working day.
3) In mixed economies, there are always government restrictions of what to produce and how to produce.
4) According to the economists’ forecast, there will be considerable fluctuations in prices of industrial shares on the stock exchange for a period of several weeks or months
5) Early in the 20th century, developing countries could not enter the world market, as there were strong trade barriers
4) Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на функции окончания -s.
1) The employers ' refusal to raise wages resulted in the workers' strike.
2) The firm's requirements to the prospective employees are too high that is why they cannot fill up vacancies
3) The main principles in relations between countries must be good will, readiness to co-operate and respect of each other's Interests