Task 4. К указанным ниже словам подберите из текста синонимы и переведите их на русский язык.

1. principal 2. person 3. to own 4. Property 5. to reward

6. to employ 7. to organize 8. to permit 9. to purchase 10. profit

 

Task 5. К указанным ниже словам подберите из текста антонимы и переведите их на русский язык.

1. flexible 2. to take 3. sole (adj) 4. large 5. to employ

6. legal 7. to permit 8. local 9. to sell 10. a unit

Task 6. Раскройте скобки, употребив сложное дополнение.

1) If you don’t want (your business, to know, anyone) keep your mouth shat.

2) They wanted (to relax, she, in the mountains, somewhere).

3) Everybody knows (to be, a responsible man, he).

4) The boss expects (the report, to finish, by Monday, you).

5) The parents watched (laugh and talk, their children, in the yard).

 

Task 7. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на сложное дополнение.

1) I like people to tell the truth.

2) I expect him to come and help me.

3) He wants his son to become a lawyer.

4) We don’t want to be interrupted.

5) I have never heard him tell the truth.

 

Task 8. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на сложное подлежащее.

1. These devices are considered to be very effective.

2. The apparatus seemed to be in excellent condition.

3. You appear to have found in him something that I have missed.

4. He is said to be a good lawyer.

5. The number of crimes is reported to be increasing with every year.

 

Task 9. Переведите предложение на английский язык, употребляя сложное подлежащее.

1. По - видимому, штраф - самое лёгкое наказание за правонарушение.

2. Известно, что он большой любитель детективов.

3. Ожидают, что члены суда придут к соглашению.

4. Многие здания, как сообщали, были повреждены.

5. Кажется, преступник не покинул город.

Task 10. Вставьте пропущенные предлоги.

Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter... the local police. In the letter he was asked to call... the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted... the police, but he went to the station yesterday and how he is not worried any more. At the station he was told... a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up... a small village four hundreds miles away. Iti is now being sent... his home... train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy... fifteen!

Task 11. Вставьте пропущенные артикли.

People are not so honest as they once were. The temptation to steal is greater thar ever before — especially in large shops.... detective recently watched... well-dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in... shop than usual, when... woman came in. So it was easier for the detective to watch her. The woman first bought a few small articles. After a little time she chose one of... most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to... assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible. Then the woman simply took... parcel and walked out of the shop without paying. When she was arrested, the detective found out that the shop- assistant was her daughter. The girl «gave» her mother... free dress once... week!

Task 12. Разделите текст на несколько логических частей и озаглавьте каждую из них. Выразите главную идею каждой части одним или двумя предложениями.

Task 13. Составьте 5 типов вопросов к тексту.

Вариант II

How Laws are Passed

Nearly all important bills are introduced by the Government. About fifty bills are passed each year, some short, some long, some needing much discussion. Once the Government has decided to introduce a bill, a minister is put in charge of it. The preparation of the text may take many months, with long consultations involving civil servants in the minister’s department on the one hand and Parliamentary Counsel on the other.
At last the bill is ready to be submitted to Parliament. It will have to be passed by both Houses of Parliament, one after the other. It can begin its journey in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords, though all really important bills are in fact submitted to the House of Commons first.
The typical bill of moderate importance, then, will begin in the House of Commons. According to very ancient practice, it must have three “readings” there. The “first reading” is in effect merely an announcement that the bill is coming forward. Then after being in circulation for a reasonable length of time (usually one or two weeks at least) it goes to the ‘second reading”. This is the main debate on the general principles of the bill, and at the end of the debate a vote is taken. The important thing about this stage is not the final decision, but the words spoken in the debate, the arguments for and against, the discussion of principles and of details from many points of view.
After the bill has passed its second reading, a “standing committee” of up to forty-five MPs is set up to consider it in detail. The bill is printed in clauses and committee members may propose changes to the text. After the committee has finished with the bill, the next stage is called “the report stage”. The House itself now repeats the committee stage, though taking much less time. The House has before it the new text of the bill, incorporating the committee’s amendments. Some new amendments are proposed and there may be further discussion of the amendments which were proposed in committee but withdrawn so as to give the minister time to examine them thoroughly.
The last stage is the debate on the proposal to “read the bill a third time”. This debate is usually short. It is a final review and discussion of the
bill as it stands after amendment.
Next the bill must go through the same stages in the House of Lords. If the House of Lords rejects a bill which has been passed by the Commons, the bill can go no further for a few months; but if the Commons pass it again, in the same form as before, it must go to the Queen for her signature no matter what the Lords do. The Lords can merely delay bills which they don’t like.
A bill becomes an Act of Parliament when the Queen signs it.

Task 1. Find the English equivalents for the words and word-combinations given below.
Государственные служащие (чиновники), законопроект средней важности, чтения, сообщение, находиться в обращении, точка зрения, постоянная комиссия, статьи, объединяющий, основательно.

Task 2. Match the English words and word-combinations given below with their Russian equivalents.

1) принять законопроект	a) to put in change
2) выдвинуты законопроект	b) to submit
З) поставить во главе	c) to reject a bill
4) представить на рассмотрение	d) to pass a bill
5) в действительности	e) to withdraw
б) провести голосование	f) to introduce a bill
7) учреждать	g) to take a vote
8) отводить, изымать	h) to set up
9) отклонить законопроект	i) in effect

 

Task 3. Answer the following questions.
1 What is the difference between a bill and an Act of Parliament?
2. How many readings should a bill receive to become a law?
3. Which of the two Houses of Parliament has more power?
4. How does a bill go through Parliament?

Task 4. К указанным ниже словам подберите из текста синонимы и переведите их на русский язык.

1. to conduct 2. profit 3. to perform 4. wide 5. general

6. to require 7. right (adj) 8. purpose 9. type 10. essential

 

Task 5. К указанным ниже словам подберите из текста антонимы и переведите их на русский язык.

1. to control 2. to agree 3. heavy 4. liable 5. frequently

6. individual 7. public 8. future 9. to receive 10. to distribute

Task 6. Раскройте скобки, употребив сложное дополнение.

 

1) People saw (behind the bank, wait, robbers).

2) I watched (the guests, one by one, to leave).

3) The saw (to sit, a young man, on the bench).

4) We suppose (to be, she, in her late fifties).

5) I have never seen (to enjoy, so much, food, anyone).

Task 7. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на сложное дополнение.

1) He wants to be sent to the conference.

2) Do you want me to help you?

3) She saw him come into the house.

4) I felt somebody touch my hand.

5) I want his article to be published.