И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

2. Переведите предложения; помните, что глагольные формы Continuous соответствуют русским глаголам несо­вершенного вида.

1. Now the workers are laying down the track. 2. The trains ran at a reduced speed when the workers were re­placing sleepers. 3. The traffic, will be stopped at that time tomorrow because the workers will be welding the rails. 4. Nowadays experiments are being made with the auto­matic train control. 5. We did not know about the deci­sion because the project was still being discussed.

3. Переведите предложения с причастием I.

а) определительный причастный оборот:

1. The locomotives developing high speeds are used to draw passenger trains. 2. Ballast supporting the track structure is made of broken stone. 3. The engineers taking part in the conference spoke about the latest achievements of Soviet railway engineering. 4. Railway electrification attracts the attention of transport engineers in the coun­tries facing (face—стоять перед лицом) the energy crisis.

5. Most of the trains running the service on the suburban lines operate on electricity.
б) обстоятельственный причастный оборот:

1. Organizing international railway exhibitions we dem­onstrate the Soviet-made locomotives, cars and modern machinery. 2. Discussing the project the engineers spoke of its advantages. 3. The locomotive must develop a higher tractive effort when drawing a heavy train. 4. When de­signing the BAM Railway the engineers had many diffi­culties. 5. Many achievements of modern science and engi­neering have been introduced into the design of a new locomotive including the automatic speed control. 6. The scientists paid great attention to railway electrification while working out the GOELRO Plan.

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   Определите по формальному показателю, в каких предложениях глагол to be выражает необходимость или возможность совершения действия. Переведите эти пред­ложения.