Практическая работа № 8

I. Подберите соответствия предложениям.

1. Чего ради я должен помогать ей? B. Why shouldn’t you go there?

2. Почему он должен был опоздать? E. Why should I help her?

3. Почему нам было не поехать? F. Why should he have refused?

4. Почему он должен был отказаться? A. Why should she have told you about that?

5. Зачем ему вас просить? C. Why should he have locked the door?

6. Почему он должен был это знать? G. Why should he have known that?

7. Чего ради мне здесь оставаться? D. Why should he have come late?

8. Зачем ему было запирать дверь? H. Why should he ask you?

9. Зачем ей было рассказывать вам об этом? I. Why should I stay here?

10. Почему бы вам не поехать туда? J. Why should we have gone?

II. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. That there should be a diversity of opinions in this matter is understandable.

2. He said that it was not a temporary problem. Lasting arrangement should be made.

3. It was not without significance, he said, that people who were connected at that level with the situation should be expressing grave disquiet.

4. The Premier admitted yesterday that it was natural that people should be disturbed at food being thrown away when millions of people were undernourished.

5. If young people are thought fit in such ways for compulsory service at 18, why should they wait three years more to be entitled to vote?

6. You should have seen his face!

7. Why shouldn’t children be allowed to plan their own television programs?

8. That Dickens should have been able to switch apparently with ease from one story to another (writing 2 stories at the same time) is an extraordinary feat.

9. “It is unthinkable that our sons and daughters, our grandchildren should live to see the horrors of the concentration camps, ” said Marcel Paul, who survived Austerlitz and Buchenwald.

10. It is extraordinary that this opera should have never been heard before in England.

11. Why it was so. I should probably never know. It was better that I shouldn’t.

12. Perhaps it should be wiser not to go.

13. Promises of that sort should never be broken.

14. It was imperative that she should go home.

15. I know that I was weak in yielding to my mother’s will. I should not have done so.

III. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We regret that we are not able to agree to your request.

2. He was driving so fast. I could see there would be a crash.

3. He could have found the book in the library.

4. The workers cannot be bought off with a small increase in their miserable pay offer.

5. “Life in the world’s oceans could die off in 25 years at the current rate of pollution, ” said Professor Jacques Piccard, adviser to the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Geneva, yesterday.

6. Old people’s reminiscences can be shaped in the form of journals, poetry, novels and plays. They can create works of power that have meaning to themselves and great resonance in society.

7. People say that the former president could have been a better president if he had been able to be elevated one degree above the political combat he faced.

8. Do you think you could give me a hand with these boxes?

9. He couldn’t have driven her to the station because he can’t drive.

10. She spoke in whisper and walked softly, as if the dead could be disturbed.

11. At nineteen minutes to six - I could not help but watch the clock - the telephone buzzed.

12. Could anyone else have done better than he had done? Could he have avoided the mistakes that he had done?

13. What could she have seen in that fellow to send her mad?

14. He was too old, he couldn’t have been more than Sixty.

15. You can have this book when I have finished it.

16. What can have happened to change him so much?

IV. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на устойчивые словосочетания с глаголом саn.

1. She can’t help crying. 3. I can’t but ask him about it.
2. He couldn’t help laughing. 4. They couldn’t but refuse him.

V. Переведите разговорные формы с глаголом can.

1. What can I do for you? 5. It can’t be helped.

2. Could you do me a favour? 6. I can hardly believe my eyes.

3. Could I trouble you for...? 7. You never can tell.

4. You can count on me.

VI. Переведите соответствия пословицам.

I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

2. You can take the horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

3. What is done cannot be undone.

4. A good horse cannot be of bad colour.

5. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.

6. Can the leopard change his spots?

7. A man can die but once.