Вставьте нужное слово в нужной форме: Some people said it would be... (possible) to find a way....

1) Poor Kate! She __ her leg.
a) broke b) had broken
c) has broken d) is breaking
2) Ann Rowley was only twenty-three when she ___ as a Memberof Parliament.
a) elected b) was elected
c) had elected c) had been elected
3) At the station they (meet) by a man.
a) will meet b) will met
c) will be met c) will be meeting
4) «I think the film was a huge success» — said Peter. Peter said that … .
a) he thinks the film was a huge success.
b) he thought the film was a huge success.
c) he thought the film had been a huge success.
d) I thought the film had been a huge success.
5) Mrs. Blake asked me when … .
a) I had heard him play.
b) she has heard him play.
c) I have heard his play.
d) she hears my playing.
6) «I`ll come to the meeting», — Tom said to me. Tom promised me that … come to the meeting.
a) if he would b) he would
c) he will d) I would
7) «Please close the window, my son», — asked mother.
a) does close b) to close c) closed d) will close
8) John wishes he ___ all the chocolates.
a) hadn’t eaten b) had eaten
c) didn’t eat d) wouldn’t eat
9) We wish we ___ a dog.
a) have b) had had c) had d) would have
10) I wish I ___ more comfortable shoes.
a) bought b) didn’t buy
c) have bought d) had bought
11) I wish you ____ something instead of just sitting and doing nothing.
a) would do b) did
c) had done d) would have done
12) It is raining. Jill wants to go out, but not in the rain. She says: I wish it ___ raining.
a) stopped b) had stopped
c) would stop d) could stop
13) He … when he told that he had never heard it before.
a) was laughed b) was laughed at
c) was being laughed at d) laughed
14) This test … by a great number of students, so you can do it as well.
a) has passed b) has been passed
c) have passed d) passes
15) The official report … by the end of this week.
a) will be written b) is being written
c) will have been written d) is written

e. 2 If it starts to rain, ..................................... for a nearby cave to wait for it to pass. 3 We would like to remind all guests that they must ..................................... out before midday. 4 Please ..................................... in and stop so that I can buy something to drink. 5 Every Saturday night my dad ..................................... us up outside the cinema. 6 I think the neighbours have ..................................... away for the weekend. 7 John’s up ahead so Greg is pedalling fast to ..................................... up with him. 8 We’re going on holiday tomorrow, but we’ll call you when we ..................................... back.

Write a phrasal verb in the correct form to replace the words in italics. Add any other words you need.

1 We can start our journey .................................................. towards the mountains at dawn. 2 Dad fetched the luggage while Mum registered .................................................. at the hotel. 3 I asked the taxi driver to let me get out .................................................. outside the train station. 4 Oh, no! I’ve forgotten my passport! We’ll have to go back ................................................. and get it! 5 The most exciting moment is when the plane leaves the ground ................................................... . 6 Stop the car! I think we’ve hit .................................................. a dog. 7 I don’t think a horse can ever stay at the same speed as .................................................. a car.

Write one word in each gap. 1 The speed ......................... in towns is 30 km/h and you shouldn’t go faster than that. 2 Why don’t we ......................... the scenic route along the coast? 3 If you buy your plane ticket ......................... advance, it’s often cheaper than if you wait. 4 I can’t remember the name of the hotel we stayed at off the ......................... of my head. 5 I’m sorry I’m late! I ......................... my way and had to ask for directions. 6 My mum’s away in Germany on a business ......................... at the moment. 7 The bank? Well, turn left here, then go ......................... ahead for a kilometre and it’s on the left. 8 If you look on your left-hand ......................... as we turn this corner, you’ll see Big Ben. 9 I’ll look round the shops in the morning and then ......................... sightseeing in the afternoon. 10 My grandma hasn’t driven since she .......................... an accident last year. 11 I love visiting foreign places, ......................... the sights and learning about other cultures. 12 During the 70s, many British people started to go ......................... holiday to Spain. 13 While you’re in London, you should take a tour ......................... the Houses of Parliament.

bout many interesting things. He (to learn) how (to use) an Internet. The Internet is like a bridge that (to connect) people and countries. Jim (to use) the Internet (to make) e-mail friends. The computer (to help) him study English. He (to learn) many interesting things.

We decided to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day. We thought it was a fine idea. It made us realize how much Mother had done for us for years, and all the efforts and sacrifices that she had made for our sake…

… It was our plan to make it a day like Christmas, and so we decided to decorate the house with flowers. We asked Mother to do it, because she always does it.

The two girls thought it would be a nice thing to dress on our best for such a big occasion, and so they both got new hats. Father had bought silk ties for himself and for us, boys. We were going to get Mother a new hat too, but it turned out that she liked her old hat better than a new one.

After breakfast we decided that we would hire a motor car and take Mother for a beautiful drive away into the country. Mother is hardly ever able to have a treat like that, because she is busy in the house nearly all the time.

But we changed the plan a little bit. We all felt that it would be nicer to have a definite purpose. It turned out that Father had just got a new rod the day before, and he said that Mother could use it if she wanted to: in fact, he said it was practically for her, only Mother said she would rather watch him fish than fish herself.

So we got everything arranged for the trip. Mother cut up some sandwiches and packed all up in a basket for us.

When the car came to the door, it turned out that we couldn’t all get in. Father said that he could stay at home and work in the garden. There was a lot of dirty work that he could do. He said that he wanted us to be happy and have a big day. The girls said that Mother had only to say the word and they’d gladly stay at home and work.

At the end it was decided that Mother would stay at home and have a lovely restful day round the house. It turned out anyway that Mother didn’t care for fishing and also it was just a little bit cold and fresh out-of-doors, though it was lovely and sunny, and Father was afraid that Mother might take cold if she came.

So we all drove away and Mother stood and watched us as long as she could see us.

We had the loveliest day. Father and the boys fished, the girls met quite a lot of people. We all had a splendid time.

It was quite late when we got back. The dinner was ready. It was grand. Mother had to get up and down during the meal fetching things back and forward, but at the end Father noticed it and said she simply mustn’t do it, that he wanted her to spare herself.

When the dinner was over all of us wanted to help to clear the things up and wash the dishes, only Mother said that she would really much rather do it.

It was quite late when it was all over, and when we all kissed Mother before going to bed, she said it had been the most wonderful day in her life and I think there were tears in her eyes.

PR: My guest today is the novelist Laura Reddington, whose novel, The Lost Dream was an international best-seller. Laura, did you always want to write?
L: I've always been interested in books. I always thought it would be wonderful to be a writer and this was an ambition.
PR: How did you start writing?
L: Well, my first thought was that I needed to make a living, so I tried romantic fiction — without success, though. I thought it would be easy money.
PR: How did you get the idea for your book?
L: I was looking through my books one day when I found the story of a man who thought he'd found a new planet. I realised this was going on at about the same time as a famous murder case in London. So I thought I could mix the two stories together to make a sort of a detective novel.
PR: How long did it take you to write the book?
L: Well, that book took two years to write. I know some people can sit down and just write, and until they've finished they don't know how it will end. But for me, it's all about planning, when I worked out all the details, I concentrate on the actual writing.
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1.She tried romantic fiction to make a living but without success.
2.She found the story of a man who thought he had found a new planet.
3. Laura thinks about the details before writing a book because it is important for her to plan her book carefully and then concentrate on details.

1. Прочитайте, перепишите и письменно переведите следующий текст.

To be sure, the mining industry has been environmentally slow.
Although great strides have been made, the mining industry generally has been very slow to do a better job.
Toward a Solution
The solution to this problem is to develop new approaches to mining that, individually and collectively, serve to reduce dramatically its impacts – while at the same time improving its efficiency and economics. Economic improvement is critical, because if impact reduction does not involve economic benefit it will not be willingly and widely adopted. Fortunately, there are a number of promising strategies for reducing mining's impact and improving its balance sheet. For example:
Identify and Develop New Mining Methods.
It is not hard to envision new methods of mining that would have less impact on the environment and would reduce or eliminate scarring of the land. For example, perhaps techniques as diverse as directional drilling in the petroleum industry and for that matter laparoscopic surgery in medicine could be applied to recovering valuable metals and minerals while dramatically reducing the amount of rock that must be moved. At the very least such an approach is suggestive. Take a systems approach to planning projects. If projects are planned from the outset with a low impact perspective, it should be possible to avoid problems or turn potential problems into assets. For example, open pits can be used as lakes or reservoirs if a project is properly planned. Perhaps post-recovery uses could be found for underground mines if such uses were taken into account at the design phase.
Create an Environmental Certification Agency for New Mining Projects.
A key objection to mining from the environmental industry is that they have little faith in the outcome of mining operations. A certified project would eliminate doubt. Approved projects could proceed faster, thereby rewarding good mining practices. It's time to make mining work in the environment.
2. Выделите в тексте все личные формы глагола и определите их видовременные формы.
Например:
are used – Present Simple Passive

3. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на особенности перевода конструкции «сложное подлежащее». Подчеркните сложное подлежащее и определите тип инфинитива.

1. Non-core drilling is known to be used in loose rocks in combination with borehole geophysical survey.
2. Modern drilling equipment is considered to accurately measure bed thickness and determine structure of beds, faults and folds.
3. Exploration is known to include a whole complex of investigations carried out for determining the industrial importance of deposit.
4. Mine or exploitation exploration is known to begin as soon as mining operations start.

4. Запишите, переведите на русский язык и выучите следующие специальные термины.
To open up, workable, pit, coal seam, digger, coke, a preliminary estimation (of a deposit), the degree of uniformity of distribution of the coal within the deposit, carboniferous, natural solid fuel, inflammable.

Открыться,осуществимый, яма, угольный пласт, землеройная машина, кокс, предварительная оценка (депозита), степень однородности распределения угля в пределах депозита, каменноугольного периода, натурального твердого топлива, воспламеняющегося.

5. Запишите, переведите на английский язык и выучите следующие специальные термины.

Выветривание, эрозия пород; горное давление, давление породы; нарушение залегания пластов; разрушение породы, отверстие, скважина, шурф; условия залегания; боковое (горизонтальное) давление; верхние пласты земной коры; растворимые минералы; ускорять процесс выветривания.

6. Задайте все возможные специальные вопросы к следующим предложениям.
1. Open pits can be used as lakes or reservoirs.
2. The combination of survey methods provides exceeding information.

7. Письменно ответьте на следующие вопросы. Переведите вопрос и ответ.

1. Are you a good student?
2. Do you like your place of work?
3. What are the examples of turning potential problems into assets?
4. Do you think the establishment of Environmental Certification Agency for New Mining Projects will help the situation?
5. Would you like to work at some open-cast mine or rather have your own business on coal mining?

Union. All the states were different from each other and developed in different ways. The Northern states built factories and plants, and they also had a bigger population. The Southern states grew crops, which they then sold to Europe. The Southerners had huge cotton fields, where black slaves worked. There were about three and a half million slaves in the Southern states.

As you know, although it was written in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, these words were not true for the slaves. They lived in terrible conditions and had to work day and night. Even some Southerners understood that slavery was inhuman, but without it they were afraid their whole way of life would be destroyed.

The Northerners were strongly against slavery; a lot of them helped slaves escape from their owners. They also tried to pass new laws to abolish slavery. This idea became more and more popular, which didn't suit many people in the South. The Southern states felt that their own country was against them, and they started to think of breaking away from the United States.

When the time for the next elections came, it was clear that the most important question would be slavery. There were four candidates, but a Northerner called Abraham Lincoln won the election. In his inaugural address Lincoln warned the Southerners that they shouldn't destroy the union of the states, but they didn't listen. In February 1861 eleven Southern states formed their own union, which was called the Confederacy, but Abraham Lincoln wouldn't let them split up the country. And so the Civil War began.

The North (their army was called the Union Army) was actually more powerful than the South: as you remember, they had more men, and their factories produced weapons and supplied the Northern army with everything it needed. But the Confederacy had one big advantage: they didn't have to invade the North, they just had to protect their own land and homes. At that time a lot of people thought that it would be possible. So at first, the Confederacy had more luck: their men were better trained and fought with more spirit. Just as in the Revolutionary War. Americans from the South were once again fighting for their independence. The Union soldiers were getting tired. After they lost some important battles, the anti-slavery idea wasn't enough to inspire them any more. The Southerners felt that just one more big victory would be enough to win the war.

It was all decided here in Gettysburg in June 1863. The three-day battle was terrible and took the lives of more than fifty thousand men. On the fourth day, the Confederate commander, General Lee, had to admit that he had lost the battle.

After the battle, the American President, Abraham Lincoln, came to Gettysburg to honour the memory of those who had died there. He made a speech there, which later became famous as "The Gettysburg Address". In that speech Lincoln told his countrymen that it was for them to make sure "that the dead shall not have died in vain and that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Two years later the Confederacy finally surrendered to the Union. As a result of the war, slavery was abolished and the United States of America was one country again.