Вариант 4

ЗАДАНИЯ к упражнениям:

1. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему «Инфинитив», «Причастие», «Герундий». Инфинитив, причастие или герундий подчеркните.
2. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему: «Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты». Подчеркните модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты, определите их время.
3. Перепишите предложения, выпишите глагол-сказуемое, определите его время. Предложения переведите.
4. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст на русский язык.

Задание № 1

1. Ralph appeared to be reading the book at that very time. 2. Their task was to reach the city before dark. 3. A kid accidentally threw a ball at one of the school windows. Someone needs to repair the broken window. 4. A damaging earthquake happened recently. 5. Michael answered without thinking. 6. Do you mind going home right now?

Задание № 2

1. The students had to wait for their teacher for 15 minutes. 2. I could not ski when I was little.
3. He has to stay at home because it is cold. 4. He was to come there at 5 o’clock. 5. She needn’t buy bread.

Задание № 3

1. Why aren’t you hurrying? I am waiting for you. 2. I'm not sure I'll recognize Eve. I haven't seen her for ages. - She will be wearing a dark blue pullover and jeans. 3. When I arrived at the party, Mary had already left. 4. By next winter they will have built four houses in this field. 5. Out teacher speaks five foreign languages.

Задание № 4

THE UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations is an organization of sovereign nations representing almost all of humanity. It has as its central goal the maintenance of international peace and security. Addi­tionally, its purposes call for the development of friendly rela­tions among nations based on equal rights and self-determina­tion of peoples and, through international co-operation, the solution of problems of an economic, social, cultural and huma­nitarian nature.

The United Nations is the meeting-place where representa­tives of all member states — great and small, rich and poor, with varying political views and social systems — have a voice and an equal vote in shaping a common course of action.

The United Nations has played, and continues to play, an active role in reducing tension in the world, preventing conflicts and putting an end to fighting already under way.

There are six main organs of the United Nations — the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Secretariat and the International Court of Justice. The Court has its seat at the Hague, Netherlands. All other organs are based at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Members of the General Assembly talk to each other in many languages, but officially there are only six — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The Secretariat services the other organs of the United Nations and administers the programmes and policies laid down by them. Over 20,000 men and women are employed by the United Nations with about one-third of them at the Head­quarters and the other two-thirds stationed around the globe. Staff members are recruited primarily from member states and are drawn from more than 140 nations. As international civil servants, each takes an oath not to seek or receive instructions from any government or outside authority.

Working for the United Nations, mostly "behind the scenes" at the Headquarters, are linguists, economists, editors, social scientists, legal experts, librarians, journalists, statisticians, broadcasters, personnel officers, administrators and experts in all the varied fields of activity covered by the United Nations. They prepare the reports and studies requested by various bodies of the United Nations; they issue press releases and pro­duce publications, broadcasts and films giving information about the United Nations; and they perform the administrative duties needed to implement resolutions adopted by the various organs. In addition, there are stenographers, clerks, engineers and technicians, tour guides and also a body of security offi­cers in blue-grey uniforms who are responsible for the security of the United Nations Headquarters. At the head of the Secre­tariat is the Secretary-General.

The main Headquarters of the United Nations are based in New York. The United Nations Organization Secretariat occu­pies the higher building. The General Assembly is held in the lower building.