VI. Translate into English.

(A)

1. Сколько времени вы меня ждете? 2. Я знаю ее уже два года. 3. Я всегда предпочитала трагедию комедии. 4. Они пишут изложение уже два часа. 5. Сколько времени' вы занима­етесь музыкой? 6. Мне уже давно хочется прочесть эту книгу.7Я не имею от него писем с августа. 8. Я не видела словаря с тех пор, как вы его взяли из шкафа. 9. Я чувствую себя очень одиноким с тех пор, как брат уехал. 10. Я очень устала. Я го­товилась к экзамену по политической экономии. 11. «Он расска­зывал мне ужасные истории», — сказала она, когда Олег вышел. 12. Почему вы все так смотрите на меня? Нина вам говорила что-нибудь обо мне?

( B)

1. Лена сказала: — Я ищу тебя весь вечер. (Чаковский) 2.Я не ел с утра... (' Тендряков) 3. Вы действительно знаете меня шесть лет. (Котов) 4. Я прожила с ним [Ващенковым] много лет и хорошо его знаю. (Тендряков) 5. Я не видел ее уже два месяца. (Чаковский) 6. Я тебя ждала три дня. (Достоевский) 7. Катерину Федоровну я знал еще с прошлого года. (Достоевский) 8. Они живут поблизости, на улице Жак Колло, около тридцати лет — с тех пор, как приехали в Париж. (Сухомлин)

VII. Insert the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect Conti­nuous.

1. “Oh, Mr. Craddock, let me come near you, ” cried Mrs. Branderton, “I ___to get at you for twenty minutes.” (to try) (Mau­gham) 2. I ___ here all the morning to see either her or Robert. (to wait) (Wilde) 3. “What’s the matter? ” “The matter? The girl’s ill. She-__ ” (to die) (Christie) 4. My dear girl, what ___ you___about now? (to think) (Beresford) 5. I ___ so much about it since I received your letter, (to think) (Marryat) 6. I ___ the streets of the city for you for two years and this is the first time I’ve admitted it even to myself, (to search) (I. Shaw) 7. I hear you ___for a new house, (to look) (Lindsay) 8. Of course, we have prob­lems, but we___ to handle them, and I must say, quite success­fully. (to learn) (Gow and D'Usseau) 9. When her voice ceased, he moved uneasily and said, “I ___well for the last ten days.” (to feel — negative) (Conrad) 10. She___ extraordinary well to-night (to feel) (Wells) 11. What else have I to live for but my children? It’s you and the rest of them that I___ and ___ for all these years, (to work, to plan) (Dreiser)

VIII. Comment on the use of the Present Indefinite, Present Con­tinuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous.

1Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. (Maugham) 2. You probably haven’t seen her since those summer holidays when Mum and Dad were abroad. (Christie) 3. Gerald, if you are going away with Lord Illingworth, go at once. Go before it kills me: but don’t ask me to meet him. (Wilde) 4. There’s the car. Arnold’s come back. I must go and bathe my eyes. I don’t want them to see I’ve been crying. (Maugham) 5. I am seeing the other nurse, Nurse O’Brien, to-day. (Christie) 6. As she turns to go, she finds that Bella has entered and is staring at her and her father with impassive hatred. (Gow and D'Usseau) 7. Bella is a Negro woman of fifty who has been in the Langdon home for twenty-four years and thus occupies a favored position. (Gow and D'Usseau) 8. “You are being very absurd, Laura, ” she said coldly. (Mansfield) 9. When I’ve taken off my things we shall go into the next room and have tea. (Mans­field) 10. I’m always doing things on the spur of the moment to my own inconvenience and other people’s. (Maugham) 11. He has all the virtues. Dr. Ramsay, Miss Glover, even Mrs. Branderton have been drumming his praise into my ears. (Maugham) 12. Fatty came over to Lanny’s table. A fat, cheerful Greek with laughing wrinkles at the sides of his eyes. “You’re alone to-day, ” Fatty said. Lanny nodded and lit a cigarette. “I’m leaving to-night.” “Leaving? ” “Yes, Fatty. I'm going home to the Karroo.” (Abrahams) 13. D’you know that Robert Qldham and Caroline have been madly in love with one another for the last ten years? They’ve waited all this time, and now at last Caroline is free. (Maugham) 14. This will be „the death of her when she hears it. (Dreiser) 15. You have told my learned friend that you have known Mr. Pickwick a long time. (Dickens) 16. He is always breaking the law. (Shaw) 17. “It is Mrs. Sedley’s coach, sister, ” said Miss Jemima. “Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell.” (Thackeray) 18. She doesn’t like me... She’s always saying sharp things tome. (Christie) 19. “I think you are being very wise. A complete holiday, a complete rest, that is what you need. Have you decided where you are going? ” “I’ve changed my mind, ” I said. “I don’t think I’m going away after all.” (Murdoch) 20. Ah, Miss Marple. Good morning. Glad you’ve come. My wife’s been ringing you up like a lunatic. (Christie) 21. A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she is going to marry a widower with seventeen children. (Maugham) 22. “By the way, you’ve been talking about me. I see it written in your faces. Your silence tells me all. I could even guess what you’ve been saying...” “You’ve been lis­tening, ” Gladys cried, making a face at him. (Priestley) 23. You are being far too romantic about it. (Hilton) 24. “Do you like me at all, Bertha? ” he asked. “I’ve been wanting to ask you ever since you came home.” (Maugham) 25. Years have passed since we began this life. {Dickens) 26. I’ve been making some sandwiches. Won’t you come up and have some? {Christie) 27. I cannot imag­ine why I’ve lived thirty years with a man I dislike so much. {Maugham) 28. “Antonia has been telling me about your flat, ” said Rosemary. “It sounds ideal. And there’s a heavenly view over to Westminster Cathedral.” (Murdoch) 29. We’ve been going to pictures about twice a week ever since. {Maugham) 30. I’ve flown a kite every Saturday afternoon ever since I was a kid and I’m going to fly a kite as long as ever I want to. {Maugham) 31. I know this is an old story, I don’t understand it myself and if I set it down in black and white it is only with a faint hope that when I have written it I may get a clearer view of if. {Maugham) 32. Who is coming to tea? (Wilde) 33. “I don’t know what’s been the matter with me. I’ve been so miserable, Eddie...” “You’ve been crying.” (Maugham)

IX. Insert the Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Per­fect, or Present Perfect Continuous.

1. I ___ the bell for the last quarter of an hour, (to ring) (Maugham) 2. I want to see how much he ___ since I saw him last, (to change) (Voynich) 3. ___ you ___ any word from her since she left here? (to have) (Dickens) 4. I don’t want to take a cure at all. I am perfectly happy. All my life I ___ perfectly happy.(to be) (Hemingway) 5. Signora Grassini greeted Gemma affection­ately, exclaiming in a loud whisper: “How charming you ___ to­night! ” (to look) (Voynich) 6. Here’s my keys. I___ (to leave) (Gow and D’Usseau) 7. I _____ to Mr. Boldwood since the autumn. I want to explain. I___ to do it ever since I returned, (to speak —negative, to long) {Hardy) 8. I requested them to suspend their deci­sion until they ___my narrative, (to read) (Collins) 9. Wait till you ___Moose and ___with him. (to see, to talk) (Aldridge) 10. “But what ___ we ___? ”she asked. “I ___about it a lot. I ___ about it all week. But I ___what to do.” (to do, to think, to think, to know — negative) (Caldwell) 11. I must not let my eyes get all red and swollen, or Henry’ll know I___(to cry) (Maugham) 12. The sun ___ with different degrees of heating power in different parts of the world, (to shine) 13. “Look, ” I said, “I ___Francis very well. I him since we were very young men.” (to know, to know) (Snow) 14. “Well, I ___that Iris isn’t going to be married, ” I said after a while, (to hear) (Maugham) 15. He says he ___ to the same tunes for fifteen years, (to listen) (Maugham) 16. Cesare you and I ___friends for all these years, and I ___ never ___you what really happened about Arthur, (to be, to tell) (Voynich) 17. What are we going to say to the king when he ___? (to come in) (Shaw) 18. “Dear little Hans, ” cried the Miller, “I am in great trouble. My little boy ___, off a ladder and himself.” (to fall, to hurt) (Wilde) 19. “As I you for the past six months, ” he said, “busi­ness is bad.” (to tell) (Shaw) 20. “This other gentleman, ” cried Mr. Pickwick, “is, as you will see when you___ the letter... a very near relative, or I should rather say a very particular friend of your son’s.” (to read) (Dickens) 21. Maude: You ___ both ___forward

to this moment ever since you met one another. Caroline: And now it ___(to look, to come) (Maugham) 22. But you ought to have been telling your tale. Now you begin, and when you ___, we’ll go back and see what___ really___ (to finish, to happen) (Priestley) 23. What ___you ___with yourself since I’ve been away? (to do) (Christie) 24. You___ here two weeks. __you ___your opinion of the South? (to be, to change) (Gow and D’Usseau) 25. “I am very hungry and tired, ” replied Oliver. “I _____a long way. I these___seven days.” (to walk, to walk) (Dickens) 26. My good man, Signora Bolla ___head nurse in general to all of us. She ___ after sick people ever since she was in short frocks, and ___ it better than any sister of mercy I___. I needn’t leave any directions if she ___ (to be, to look, to do, to know, to come) (Voynich) 27. As Arthur mounted the stone steps leading to the street, a girl in a cotton dress and straw hat ran up to him with outstretched hands. “Arthur! Oh, I am so glad!.. I ___here for half an hour...

Arthur, why you at me like that? Something Arthur, what ____ to you? Stop! ” (to wait, to look, to happen, to come) (Voynich) 28. “Mr. Bithem here yet? ” asked Miss Mass. “Oh, yes,

dear, ” cried the chorus. “He ___here for ages. We all ____ here___for more than an hour.” (to be, to wait) (Mansfield) 29. “Are we alone now? ” “The waiter ___and the door is locked.” (to go) (Caldwell) 30. I ___happy. I_____ always happy. (to be, to be) (Heming­way)