ЗАДАНИЕ 1. Переведете устно предложения. Проанализируйте значения модальных глаголов

1. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air. 2. All the preparations must have been completed long ago. 3. Decoding the human genome involves analyzing 3 billion base pairs – which took ten years the first time it was done, in 2003, but can now be achieved in one week. 4. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. 5. People should be worried about how we train the next generation. 6. You couldn’t have seen jumbo jet (реактивный лайнер) in flight a couple of years ago. 7. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine. 8. You may look through the results of his experiment. 9. Researchers are now able to understand human behaviour at the population level rather than the individual level. 10. You can see the outlines of data-centred economy, but the technical, infrastructural and even business-model implications are not well understood right now. 11. We are to take certain special steps to reduce the weight of the mechanical part. 12. He may have got the capacitor (конденсатор) he needed. 13. He could not have overlooked such a serious mistake. 14. They ought to have paid more attention to the problem of fuel consumption. 15. This line should have been put into operation. 15. You should have used а computer system especially designed to allow for certain physical changes in the atmosphere. 16. To look at the World Wide Web from your computer you need to have a piece of software called a web browser.

ЗАДАНИЕ 2. Переведете письменно предложения. Проанализируйте значения модальных глаголов.

1. Managed well, the data can be used to provide fresh insights into science. 2. For example, Farecast, a part of Microsoft’s search engine Bing, can advise customers whether to buy an airline ticket now or wait for the price to come down by examining 225 billion flight and price records. 3. To be sure, digital records should make life easier for doctors, bring down costs for providers and patients and improve the quality of care. 4. Banks are aggregating their customer data to show up macroeconomic trends, which may develop into businesses in their own right. 5. To meet this large demand for power, more generating capacity should be created. 6. We are to take into consideration all the advantages and disadvantages to decide what information system is the best for the future work. 7. This arrangement must be perfectly reliable in operation. 8. He cannot have broken the tube while making this experiment. 9. The chief might have obliged him to do this if he wanted. 10. He is to have the necessary material to accomplish his model in time. 11. Problems that might have taken years to solve are solved within a few months or even weeks. 12. The engineer might have overlooked something that may turn out to be important in carrying out this experiment. 13. Users of popular open source packages will get correct answers to their technical questions within a few hours of asking for help on the appropriate Internet forum. 14. Nowadays, scientists have found evidence that comets not only may have taken life away through cataclysmic impacts, they may have helped provide life by supplying Earth with vital molecules such as water.

ЗАДАНИЕ 3. Переведете письменно предложения.

1. Можешь ли ты мне ответить не этот вопрос? 2. Могу ли я пойти к врачу? 3. Я должен был встретить ее, но не смог. 4. Сегодня вам пришлось встать рано. 5. Кто может перевести это предложение. 6. Не может быть, чтобы он не слышал об этом актере. 7. Когда мы должны готовить доклад? 8. Она должна была сказать ему об этом. 9. Он, должно быть, решил эту проблему много лет назад. 10. Вам следовало пригласить ее на ужин. Почему Вы не сделали этого? 11. Ты мог бы поздравить ее с днем рождения. 12. Не может быть, чтобы было так поздно.

ЗАДАНИЕ 4. Выполните письменный перевод текста. Проанализируйте способы перевода страдательного залога.

What’s a Google?

When you hear the word Google the first image that comes to mind has to be the famous internet search engine but does the word actually mean anything? Well the answer is a firm yes because it comes from the term “Googol” which represents a number (written as a 1 followed by 100 zeros) so large that it’s actually larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe.

As you might imagine the number is rarely used except maybe in theoretical and computational calculations, however the big question is whether a number bigger than a Googol exists? Well funnily enough there is and it’s called a googolplex which would be a number 1 followed by, wait for it not one thousand zeros, not even one million zeros but a googol zeroes.

Getting confused? Well you should be because this number is so large that it’s almost impossible to imagine and also impossible to write because doing so would require more space than the known universe provides. Absolutely mind boggling you may think!

Lastly for those of you that are interested in where this term actually came from, well it was popularized in the 1940′s by the American mathematician Edward Kasner who created it as a useful number when comparing unimaginably large numbers with infinity. Oh and the actual term “googol” was coined by his then 9 year old nephew Milton Sirotta, not bad for a 9 year old!

(по материалам сайта www.science-facts.com)

Тема 8

ИНФИНИТИВ

Показателем инфинитива (неопределенной формы глагола) в английском языке является частица to. Инфинитив произошел от существительного с предлогом to, который показывает направление к чему-либо, отсюда и основное значение инфинитива (в простой форме) – он передает то, что еще будет или должно быть сделано: to write – писать, to go – идти и т.д.

Характерной особенностью английского инфинитива, в сравнении с русским инфинитивом, является наличие сложных форм, как в действительном, так и в страдательной залоге (табл. 8).

Таблица 8

Форма	Залог
Active	Passive
Indefinite	to write	to be written
Continuous	to be writing	-
Perfect	to have written	to have been written
Perfect Continuous	to have been writting	-

Инфинитив может играть роль любого члена предложения: подлежащего, дополнения, определения, обстоятельства и вводного члена предложения.

Особенности перевода на русский язык:

1. Простые формы инфинитива (Indefinite) чаще всего переводятся неопределенной формой глагола, существительным, реже причастием или глаголом в личной форме (табл. 11).